1 What policies do you have about getting involved in partnerships? And about disengaging from partnerships?
2 How do you assess the costs and benefits of engaging in different forms of partnership working against other ways of achieving the same ends (for example, formal contracts or bilateral arrangements)?
3 How do you decide when simple collaboration or liaison should become a formal partnership?
4 How do your partnerships differ in size, scope and impact?
5 Which formal partnerships are you involved in? Who takes responsibility for them?
6 How do you monitor and mitigate the risks associated with working across a wide variety of partnerships? Is your monitoring proportionate, as well as effective?
7 How do you know that your own organisational governance arrangements are adequate both to support and to manage the risks of working in partnerships?