Tag: community planning

Edinburgh Partnership launches community planning review

Your chance to influence how community planning works for Edinburgh

Do you feel involved in decision-making? Are community voices being heard? What can be done to improve local democracy and community engagement? Where does the community fit into community planning?

In the snappily-titled ‘Edinburgh Partnership Review & Consultation on Governance and Community Planning Arrangements (the name alone should be enough scare a few people off!) The Edinburgh Partnership is consulting community councils, community groups and individuals on community planing in the capital.

Community planning brings together public agencies, the third sector and communities to work together to plan and deliver services which make a real difference to people’s lives.  The Edinburgh Partnership involves these partners in overseeing this work for the city.

The Edinburgh Partnership recognises that community planning processes can be improved.  In this consultation, the Edinburgh Partnership would like to hear people’s views on:

  • how communities and community groups can more effectively influence decisions about their community.
  • how the governance arrangements can be improved to:
    • make it clear how decisions are made, and who is making them, by improving the groups and structures involved
    • make partnership working stronger
    • make better connections between the different levels of partnership working in the city.

Why is The Edinburgh Partnership consulting?

In Scotland, the law says a range of public bodies must take part in community planning. This is set out in the Scottish Government’s Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015. The act was designed to strengthen the influence communities have in making decisions about their area – this is known as community planning.

Below is the current governance structure in Edinburgh, which forms the basis of the consultation. It shows many partnership and advisory groups feed into and from the Edinburgh Partnership.

There are other bodies in the city which link to and/or have a role in these arrangements but they are not part of the governance structure. These include community councils, Council committees, the Edinburgh Association of Community Councils and the Equality and Rights Network. They provide the city-wide perspective for community and interest groups. These are not included in the consultation.

To help develop the consultation the Edinburgh Partnership carried out a review with the people involved in the current partnerships and groups shown in the governance structure (as above).  Their views on what is working well and what could be better have shaped the proposals and questions in this consultation.

The Edinburgh Partnership would now like to hear YOUR views as it’s recognised that this consultation is relevant in different ways to a wide range of organisations.

Timescales

Deadline for submissions is Sunday 9th September 2018.

Your chance to influence how community planning works for Edinburgh: Take part here:

 

LOCALITY IMPROVEMENT ACTION PLANS – ANOTHER CHANCE TO HAVE YOUR SAY!

Wednesday 27th June from 6-8pm at Drumbrae Library Hub

The North West Locality Improvement Plan has been developed to help organisations design and deliver improved services across the North West of the city of Edinburgh. Continue reading LOCALITY IMPROVEMENT ACTION PLANS – ANOTHER CHANCE TO HAVE YOUR SAY!

Your opportunity to influence Locality Improvement Plans

There are two more chances to help shape North West Edinburgh’s Locality Improvement Plan this week at community consultation events:

This evening at The Prentice Centre there’s a session on ‘North Edinburgh small area’ – that’s Muirhouse, West Pilton, Granton, Royston Wardieburn and Wester Drylaw to you and me, so it’s no’ that small! These traditional working class communities face a number of poverty-related challenges and tonight’s session will look at the draft action plan drawn up to tackle issues in ‘Greater Pilton’. Are the priorities right? Can the plan be improved? What’s missing?

Have your say tonight at The Prentice Centre, Granton Mains Avenue. The session runs from 5.30 – 8pm.

• North Edinburgh small area –  https://www.surveymonkey.co.uk/r/Q33YZW3

Over recent weeks the North West team has taken the Locality Improvement Plan out for consultation at venues across the area. Sessions have been on themes – there have been sessions on Place; Community Safety; Employment, Training & Education and Children, Young People and Families.

Over recent weeks the North West Locality team has taken the Locality Improvement Plan out for consultation at venues across the locality. Sessions have been on themes – there have been sessions on Place; Community Safety; Employment, Training & Education and Children, Young People and Families.

Tomorrow sees the final themed session – this one’s on Health and Wellbeing and it takes place in Clermiston’s Rannoch Centre, Rannoch Terrace from 1 – 4pm.

Health & Wellbeing theme 

If you can’t attend these events there’s still time to express your views – click here

 

North West Locality Draft Action Plan: Three June opportunities to have your say

Help improve the Locality draft Action Plan

What’s a Locality Plan?

The city council and partners (police, fire and rescue service, voluntary sector, Edinburgh College, NHS Lothian etc) asked individuals and community groups for their views on local priorities and services. Using that feedback, four Locality Improvement Plans (LIPs) for 2017 to 2022 were developed and endorsed by The Edinburgh Partnership in December last year.  The LIP draft action plans are currently out for wider community consultation and this is the opportunity to have a look at them and share your views. Continue reading North West Locality Draft Action Plan: Three June opportunities to have your say

Have your say on LIP Action Plan

The North West Locality Improvement Plan (LIP) has been developed to help organisations design and deliver improved services across the North West of the city of Edinburgh – and now YOU can help to make the plan even better. Continue reading Have your say on LIP Action Plan

North West Localities Committee meets tomorrow

North West Localities Committee

Wednesday 25th April

7pm Dean of Guild Court Room, City Chambers

This is a public meeting and members of the public are welcome to attend

Residents are being encouraged to tune in to the second meeting of their Locality Committee when they meet this week to discuss the pressing topics in their local area.

North West Localities Committees meets on Wednesday evening in the City Chambers and can be attended in person or viewed live via webcast.

Main Council Committees currently have responsibility for services across the city and Locality Committees will complement this by addressing specific service and community issues within their areas.

Each of the Committees will have powers over community safety, lifelong learning and libraries, traffic management, roads and parking, parks and green space, street cleaning and open space maintenance and public realm projects on a local basis.

 

Councillors on the North West Locality Committee will meet from 7pm to 9pm on Wednesday and Convener Cllr Robert Aldridge will manage discussion of the Locality Improvement Plan and hear a Health and Social Care update.

You can find out more about Locality Committees and their membership on the Council’s website.

See below for meeting papers

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