Governance
Bold Start, Bright Futures - our framework for strong leadership and joint accountability
As the ambitions of this Strategy and the local area action plan rely on the whole-system approach, strong multiagency governance and coordinated mobilisation are essential.
To ensure clear accountability, collective ownership and sustained focus on improvement, it is hoped that this programme of work will report to the integrated Health and Wellbeing Board. This will provide the strategic oversight needed to drive partnership action, strengthen leadership across agencies and ensure every child experiences a Bold Start and a Bright Future.
BSiL Partnership Programme Board
The Best Start in Life (BSiL) Leads and Programme Board will provide strategic leadership and system-wide accountability, overseeing joint commissioning, aligning budgets, and monitoring spend against agreed outcomes to ensure transparency, shared accountability, and the effective use of resources across the system. They will set the overall vision, priorities, and outcomes, ensuring alignment with the One Coventry Plan and statutory duties, while also monitoring key system indicators, including Good Level of Development (GLD) and child health outcomes.
BSiL Operational stakeholder group: co-chaired by the Best Start in Life Leads
This group ensures the operational implementation of the Best Start in Life Local Area Plan, agreign shared pathways, data flows and resource alignment.
- it will enable family and community voices to be actively engaged in and inform decision making as plans evolve
- this group will feedback on service delivery against the plan and collectively monitor progress and impact across the key performance indicators
- service area accountability: Each partner owns and delivers its actions to agreed timescales, with named strategic and operational leads
- crosscutting priorities (e.g., early communication, perinatal mental health, inclusion) have a clear lead and partner contributions, coordinated by leads for each commitment