Historic SNEE ICS VCFSE Resilience Charter Signed at ‘Can Do Health and Care’ Expo2023

Posted on: August 18, 2023

On Friday 7 July 2023 around 1,000 delegates from across the Suffolk and North East Essex ICS attended the annual ICS ‘Can Do Health and Care’ Expo2023 at Wherstead Park near Ipswich. The event included more than 140 exhibitors across six exhibition zones as well as keynote presentations, workshops, demonstrations and discussions.

A key highlight of the day at Expo2023 was the official signing of the Suffolk and North East Essex ICS VCFSE Resilience Charter. The charter was signed in person by numerous VCFSE sector leaders alongside Will Pope and Ed Garratt on behalf of NHS Suffolk and North East Essex ICB, Cllr. Andrew Reid on behalf of Suffolk County Council and Lucy Wightman on behalf of Essex County Council.

The charter was originally drafted by VCFSE sector partners in 2021 and set out a number of commitments and principles for wider system partners to work to that was underpinned by an ethos of collaboration, sustainable funding, co-production and shared resources. Whilst the principles of the Charter were widely accepted by system partners, challenges with adopting the commitments were identified, largely owing to the complexity of the ICS system whereby commitments such as embedding co-production, reducing overlap, and removing unnecessary bureaucracy, whilst agreed in principle, in practice have been harder to achieve. So, to agree a Charter that the whole system agreed to and could be adopted by all partners across all sectors in the system, the Charter was revisited to refine and co-produce a new Charter that recognises the diversity of the VCFSE sector and will enable it to work with and be recognised as a key partner within the ICS.

Over 100 people from across the system contributed to the co-design of the revised Resilience Charter Principles, which included task and finish groups to explore five priority areas: Sustainable Funding, Co-Production, Quality and Monitoring, Resilience and Capacity and Trust and Culture. The groups helped to develop the eight new principles and made recommendations for the system to progress to ensure that the principles are embedded by all partners. The Charter and Principles were approved by the ICP Committee in June 2023.

Contact rachel.jennings9@nhs.net for further information.

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