Principles

  • Gain a better understanding of the problem being tackled from the individuals directly affected
  • Redesign the service around the person, not the agency
  • Focus on prevention and improving wellbeing
  • Develop a co-ordinated, multi-agency, multi-disciplinary approach and central point of contact
  • Foster community responsibility and support volunteers to help design & provide the solution
  • Establish tangible benefits to collaboration
  • Explore the potential for deliver and/or commission of services
  • Share ownership of issues where there is no single responsibility
  • Share/use collective assets to address needs
  • Hold ourselves to account on behalf of the people of Northern Devon
  • Focus on sustainability