The Policy & Research team supports Newham's senior leadership by anticipating future challenges, developing strategic opportunities, and attracting funding. They help services and partners improve their policy, research, and funding skills in ways that reflect Newham's values. Additionally, they amplify the impact of Newham's services and partners through building partnerships, public affairs work, and attracting external funding.

1. Policy & Research
1. We support the senior leadership to
anticipate future challenges and develop
strategic policy opportunities
2. We help people develop their skills in policy,
research & funding in ways that embody
Newham’s values
3. We amplify the impact of Newham’s services
& partners through attracting funding,
building partnerships and public affairs

2. 1. We support the leadership to anticipate future
challenges & develop strategic opportunities
 Anticipate strategic challenges for the borough
to help CMT, Cabinet & strategic partners
respond to changing scenarios
 Work with the Mayor/Cabinet and CMT to
develop a forward plan of work
 Provide dedicated policy, research, public
affairs & funding support to strategies
prioritised by the Mayor/Cabinet and CMT

3. 2. We help people improve their skills in developing
strategies in ways that embody Newham’s values
 Develop tools, training & networks that
improve the ability of services & partners to
do policy, research & funding themselves
 Develop research prioritised by CMT to help
services & partners understand the lives of
our communities and impact on inequalities
 Lead the design & testing of the participation
framework to enable services & partners to
improve how they involve communities

4. 3. We amplify the impact of Newham’s services &
partners across the borough and beyond
 Develop coalitions that enable Newham to
amplify the impact of its activities and play a
leading role to influence policy change
 Mobilise anchor institutions to use their levers
to deliver the borough’s strategic priorities
 Improve how we can increase external
funding and place-based giving and improve
coordination with other local funders

5. We want to focus our skills where we’re
best placed lead or support
• We support the senior leadership to
anticipate & respond to strategic
challenges
• We develop tools & training to help
services & partners to do policy, research,
partnerships, funding themselves
• We create platforms for Newham to
position itself on its strengths to attract
investment & build coalitions for change
• We provide dedicated support on
Newham’s biggest priorities where we can
join up activity to have the greatest impact
Self service
Capability
building
Dedicated
support

6. As a new team, we want to develop our
offer with you...
1. Discover what strategy skills services are
most in need of, prioritise dedicated support
we provide and develop strategic approaches
2. Test ways of helping services develop their
strategy skills, through strategies we can test
improved approaches and org-wide capability
3. Adjust to what we’re learning & testing,
embed collaboration with teams & partners
and use networks to amplify the impact

7. How can we best work with you to support
the organisation to…
Develop its
capability to work
in a strategic way?
Ensure it tackles
inequality in
everything it does?
Use the evidence
to adapt &
respond to
changing needs?
Involves
communities &
partners in
everything it does?
Deliver the change
required from its
strategies?
Position Newham’s
strengths to
amplify its impact?
Communities
Services
&
Partners
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