Working Together & Team Leeds

Working Together

This section sets out some key principles for joint working in delivering the Best City Ambition, again further embedding the Team Leeds approach. It is based both on our experience of partner-working to date, and initial conversations with stakeholders from across the city. It attempts not only to identify the key components of strong partnerships, but also ensure they translate firmly into the way we work.

Team Leeds Accelerators

The Best City Ambition identifies a number of challenges, opportunities, priorities and goals for Leeds. These will be pursued in partnership over the coming years.

As part of this, we know there are some big issues which are particularly challenging for us as a city. Making progress on these – to improve an entrenched problem or grasp an opportunity quickly – will need intensive, focused effort from a wide group of people and partners. That is where the Team Leeds Accelerators come in.

The Accelerators will represent an approach – one in which cross-city, cross-sector, cross-organisational groups of people will come together focused on a clear objective or outcome. Their purpose will be to advance tangible progress towards that outcome, and to do so in a collaborative way which draws on the strengths, knowledge, skills and lived experiences of people and organisations across Leeds.

The Accelerators will show Team Leeds in action and help us to deliver real and lasting improvements for our communities.

Team Leeds in Action

This section sets out how we will foster the Team Leeds approach for the long term – including the key partnership infrastructure central to making our ambition a reality and how everyone can contribute. It will also signpost to the key strategies and plans which underpin the Best City Ambition, and highlight our intention to develop a broader, more consistent evidence-base to both inform interventions and monitor their impact.

Crucially, it also covers the ways in which the voices and lived experiences of people in Leeds should feed into our ambition and future work.