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Overall conclusion–SAFE Link and Womankind’s partnership working
Our successful partnership has been built on mutual respect and our commitment to work to our shared values of providing high quality, accessible services which place survivors at the centre of their support.
We have established a good partnership and know that working together helps us to achieve our goals and also brings greater benefits to clients who need specialist support. For example, we have strengthened referral pathways and have
been able to help protect more vulnerable clients from re-victimisation as we have been able to put in safety plans at a much earlier stage by working more closely together.
Working in partnership has not only benefitted survivors/victims of sexual violence but has also benefited our organisations
in terms of sharing resources, expertise and peer support for delivery staff.
Carol Metters MBE, SAFE Link CEO Kyra Bond, Womankind CEO
The two services worked well in partnership.
The LD ISVA met and delivered training to a new cohort of Womankind befrienders about the SAFE Link remit; the ISVA team’s work; and the CJS and what this could entail for survivors. There have been regular meetings with Womankind to share good practice.
SAFE Link and Womankind’s CEOs and managers agreed upon eight indicators for monitoring their partnership and felt that they had achieved
each of them:
(i) mutual respect
(ii) recognition that each party makes different contributions
(iii) roles and responsibilities clearly agreed
(iii) transparency with regard to financial matters
(iv) reciprocal accountability
(v) transparency of decision-making
(vi) recognition of services’ other partnerships
(vii) relationship and achievement of mutually agreed goals regularly reviewed
(viii) and ability and willingness to learn from and act on the outcome of monitoring/ evaluation.
Both service CEOs and managers thought the partnership a great success.
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