Partnership working improves efficiency and effectiveness by making the best use of all the resources available.

• Community planning

  Community planning is about giving local people the opportunity to create a shared vision for their area and identify priorities for action which are agreed by a wide range of people, organisations and groups.

• Crime and disorder reduction

  The Crime and Disorder Act requires councils, the police, primary care trusts, the fire and rescue service, other key agencies and the community to work together at borough/district level to develop and implement plans for reducing crime and disorder.

• Dorset Communicators Group

  This section of the website is not for public use.

• Dorset Community Action

  DCA is an independent voluntary organisation and charitable company. It is governed by a Board of Trustees, and has a membership of voluntary and statutory organisations from across Dorset, Bournemouth and Poole.

• Dorset County Council partnerships

  Information on partnerships that include or are led by Dorset County Council.

• Dorsetforyou.com Partnership

  The Dorsetforyou.com Partnership is made up of a number of local councils working together to give people easy and effective access to local government information and services.

• Heritage Committees

  There are two Heritage partnerships which exist in Dorset.

• Purbeck partnership working

  Find information on the council's toolkit and register, which covers the approach to new partnerships and gives guidance when reviewing existing arrangements, and 'The Dorset Compact'.