1. Mid Ross Community Partnership
Dingwall Locality Plan
Engaging the Community

2. Our Purpose Tonight
First step on the road to a Locality Plan for Dingwall
Locality Plans are about strengthening communities and reducing inequalities
Bottom up approach - the community’s priorities for doing this
We need to get better at community engagement
Starting by looking at how we involve the people of Dingwall in producing the Locality Plan

3. How Did We Get Here? Community Empowerment (Scotland) Act 2015
Commission on Highland Democracy

4. What Change Required? Inequalities have huge personal, societal cost
Improve outcomes:
Target inequality
Focus on Prevention
Community Involvement in Decision Making
Strengthen communities:
Ownership of assets
New rights – participation requests

5. What The Act Requires
Key public agencies share responsibility for achieving better outcomes from collective resources
Focus on reducing inequalities, prevention, partnership
Meaningful community participation in decisions – community planning, participation requests
Strengthen communities – ownership of assets, right to buy land,

6. Where Does Locality Plan Fit In?
Each of the 9 CPs
Listen to what people want to change in their community across the community wellbeing outcomes
Share with communities information about outcomes within the area, across Highland and Scotland – Area Profiles
Produce Locality Plans for those areas where there is most opportunity to improve outcomes

9. Why Not Just Get On With It?
We Need to Get Better:
Hard for some people to get involved
Too much consultation about the wrong things
What difference does it make?
No new resources – best value from existing
Some of us are new to it
Want to improve engagement for the long term, not just the latest priority

10. DIALOGUE BY DESIGN What methods: Resources – time, money, people
might exclude some people
deliver and obtain information
discover opinions
build relationships
Promote understanding and debate
Resources – time, money, people
What will be happening anyway

11. Levels of Public Participation
Inform
Involve
Collaborate
Consult
Empower
Increasing Level of Participation in Decision Making 3 4 5 2 1