Multi-Agency Partnerships

Question 1

Rosenbaum (2002)

Answer 1

benefits of effective partnerships
- Complex, innovative, comprehensive solutions
- Identify underlying problems
- More resources
- Increased accountability of agencies
- Increased community awareness

Question 2

Garlands (1996)

Answer 2

Recognises police can only play a limited role + non-state actors need to be used to assist

Question 3

Nash (2010)

Answer 3

Underlying message that many heads are better than one and that a variety of expertise brought to hear on a given problem has to be good news.

Question 4

Crawford + L’Houry (2017)

Answer 4

Opens opportunities for fostering increased reflexivity within policing + to develop more systematic organisational cultures that facilitate the transfer of good practice

Question 5

Audit Commission (1998)

Answer 5

• separate organisation - large scale partnerships separate legal entities working together
• Virtual organisation - secondment of relevant professionals to one venue so that service delivery is joint
• co-located staff from partner org - each agency retains own staff + skills
• steering group w/o dedicated staff resources - decisions implemented through partner’s own agencies

Question 6

Morgan Report (1991)

Answer 6

Advocated a ‘partnership approach’ to community safety

Question 7

Berry et al. (2011)

Answer 7

‘a cooperative relationship between 2 or more orgs to achieve a common goal’

Question 8

Higgins et al. (2016)

Answer 8

“[it] is clear that multi-agency working is now close to the mainstream of local policing, however, it is also clear that in the context of public sector austerity, and the local organisational restructures that have followed, it has become more difficult to sustain.”

Question 9

Barriers/Challenges to multi-agency cooperation

Answer 9

• reluctance of some agencies to participate
• dominance of policing agenda
• conflicting interests
• lack of trust
• desire to protect budgets
• The role of voluntary sector frequently marginalised

Question 10

Multi-agency case management - MAPPA

Answer 10

Multi-agency Public Protection Arrangements - manage violent + sexual offenders

Question 11

Multi-agency case management- PPO initiative

Answer 11

Prolific priority offender initiative - Coordinate enforcement + rehab of the most prolific offenders

Question 12

Multi agency case management - MARCAs

Answer 12

Multi-agency risk assessment conferences - Respond to high risk victims of DV

Question 13

Multi agency case management - MASH

Answer 13

Multi-agency Safeguarding Hubs - Help those vulnerable + at risk of abuse