Joint working

There are occasions where we work jointly with others to deliver a common goal. This partnership approach ensures that we are as efficient and effective as possible.

Our agreements with others can take many forms. We work to build positive, mutually beneficial relationships with many other bodies, listening to their needs and working in partnership with them. In some instances, we express our commitment to such partnerships more formally in order to ensure our work is jointly as efficient and effective as possible. These written agreements, or concordats, may go under different names and take varying forms but broadly speaking their purposes may include one or more of the following :

• Promote increased understanding and recognition of respective roles,
• Establish common interests and promote positive approaches,
• Identify new opportunities for joint working
• Develop effective working relations by clarifying and formalising working arrangements.

Agreements in place

• A Statement of Intent between the Game and Wildlife Conservation Trust and SNH 
• Concordat between BTCV Scotland and SNH 2008 - 2012 
• A joint statement by the marine industries and leisure user groups of Scotland on the Code of Conduct with regard to invasive species in Scotland   
• Delivering Planning Reform 
• Four Agency Statement on climate change 
• Concordat with Historic Scotland
• SNH/National Trust of Scotland Concordat 
• SNH and RSPB - A Statement of Intent    
• Joint Declaration of Intent between Ministry of Defence and SNH