1. Community Planning: an introduction Community Places

2. Community Places Advice on Planning issues to groups and individuals
Community Engagement
Support Community Planning

3. Community Planning - What is it?
Long-term, on-going process to tackle needs
Improving the co-ordination, planning and delivery of services
Facilitated by the new Council
Involve all major public bodies; local community and voluntary groups; local businesses and the public

4. Definition of Community Planning
Community Plan must identify long-term objectives and actions for:
improving social, economic and environmental well-being and tackling poverty, exclusion and disadvantage;
contributing to achieving sustainable development across the region;
planning and improving public services.

5. Roles Councils: Statutory Partners: Departments:
initiate, maintain, facilitate;
publish progress on outcomes every 2 years;
Review the plan every 4 years.
Statutory Partners:
participate in and assist the Council;
perform actions in the Plan and contribute to monitoring.
Departments:
promote and encourage and have regard to.

6. Proposed Statutory Partners
The Education and Library Boards
The Health and Social Care Trusts
Public Health Agency
Health and Social Care Board
Police Service of Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Housing Executive
Northern Ireland Fire and Rescue Service
Invest Northern Ireland
Northern Ireland Tourist Board
Consultation closed on Friday 12 December 2014
Draft Statutory Guidance for the operation of Community Planning published in December 2014 and closes on March 2015

7. Community Involvement
Councils and partners must seek participation of and encourage ‘persons’ to express views and take them into account.
Persons : residents, service users, groups, businesses.

8. Distinctive Qualities

9. What we find works
Bringing together: Elected Representatives, Service Providers, Communities and Local Business
Analysis, Discussion, Negotiation and Agreement
Time to build relationships between partners and for co-ordination by all sectors
Shared knowledge and understanding of roles, responsibilities and skills of all stakeholders

10. How can you get involved?
Build relationships with locally elected representatives, especially those in your DEA
Network with others across your new council area
Build relationships with statutory providers across the new council area

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