Informal joint working between authorities

2.3  Joint working can be very informal. It can involve approaches such as operational collaboration at officer level or agreed alignment of approaches and policies across a group of authorities, perhaps supported by a Memorandum of Understanding ("MoU") which does not legally bind the participating authorities and relies on goodwill and political co-operation.

2.4  WIDP has prepared a pro-forma MoU which provides a basis for authorities to develop their own project specific MoUs.