Agenda

Requests to speak at the Committee on a matter within its terms of reference must be made in writing to the clerk named on the front of this agenda by 5pm two working days before the meeting.

To approve and sign the minutes of the meeting held on 8^th October 2024.

Report of the Director of Strategy, Design and Insight

This report updates on how the Council has approached setting, understanding, impacting and measuring the four Camden Missions agreed in December 2021 that sit at the heart of our We Make Camden strategy (agreed in April 2022). It summarises what we mean by our ambition to become a missions-orientated Council, and how we want to work with staff, citizens and partners across the Borough in taking a new approach to tackling complex problems and making real change. Our Missions are both about making this change, and also about learning new ways for Councils and public sector organisations to engage, catalyse, convene and facilitate innovation and community activity in places and across sectors.   

This report summarises the alignment between mission ways of working and our principles, ambitions and approaches set out in We Make Camden and The Way We Work. Since agreeing them in late 2021, we have made significant progress in understanding the challenges, issues, and gaps associated with the issues our Missions highlight. We have also invested in community, organisational and partner capacity to deliver our Missions – embodied in our Community Wealth Fund, our Good Life Camden resident prosperity framework and our We Make Camden kit. We have also invested in producing transparent and accessible updates, data and insight on our Missions and on the issues occurring in our Borough – our annual State of the Borough report contains data and measures aligned with our Missions as well as evidence on what is happening across Camden relevant to our We Make Camden priorities. We are also part of a growing number of public sector organisations taking a missions approach, and we welcome the opportunity to share learning and best practice as part of this network, including central Government.   

We welcome the opportunity to work with Councillors on our Missions. This report provides a summary of our missions-orientated work overall including key capacity building and we are encouraging Scrutiny Committees to receive further, more focused updates on each Mission relevant to their Committee terms of reference. 

Report of the Director of Participation, Partnerships and Communications

This report updates on Camden’s We Make Camden partnerships approach. It focuses on non-contractual and non-statutory partnerships that we are developing in response to the shared goals set out in We Make Camden and through a Missions approach.

A lot of our recent work has been on developing new partnership relationships and networks, with a view to enabling local organisations to find new inspiration and opportunities to contribute towards delivering We Make Camden and the missions, drawing on their wide range of levers, resources and expertise.

While we already have a range of longstanding good practice in local partnerships, we currently in the process of adding more rigour and infrastructure, combined with clarity of partnership asks in order to enhance what is already a rich partnership landscape. 

Our aim is to secure more action and impact from a wide range of partners, by connecting across business, public sector, higher education, voluntary and community sector partners, as well as with citizens and groups leading social action. Through building relationships across these various groups, we are opening up and creating new connections and opportunities that will help us deliver our We Make Camden missions.

Report of the Executive Director Corporate Services

This paper provides an outline of the 2023/24 work programme and provides an update on actions requested at previous meetings of the Committee in the Action Tracker.