Organisational Policies, Processes and Structures

Policies, administrative systems, structures and processes effectively enable and encourage place-based ways of working to address inequalities.

The ways organisations work together and engage with communities are often shaped by their structures, policies, and practices. This covers how resources are managed, how information is shared, how teams align with communities, how success is measured and who can influence decisions. Effective place-based working requires us to proactively identify, challenge and change these systemic factors. This means:

1. Recognising that the way many organisations are traditionally organised do not facilitate place-based systemic approaches, and that this needs to change.
2. Systematically assessing and redesigning existing policies and processes to build in place-based, systemic and equitable ways of working.
3. Ensuring policies and processes enable distributed responsibility for decision-making within and across organisations, to enable proportionate and rapid responses to emerging issues and opportunities.
4. Moving to collaborative and ‘compassionate’ commissioning of services, with a focus on what matters to people, where commissioners and providers share responsibility for creating conditions for positive change.

Below you will find the recording of the most recent learning seminar on this condition from April 2024. To the right you can download the essence document and Facilitative Processes and Governance Learning Seminar slides.