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Following its meeting in late November 2010, the EM IEP Board have agreed that regional improvement and efficiency work should continue. The Board agreed that a small team located with East Midlands Councils will continue to progress the work of EM IEP using a small budget created from regional and sub regional under spending. The areas of business to continue are: improvement, efficiency, productivity, climate change and procurement. This is very positive news for authorities in the region and means that we can all continue to meet the challenges of government cuts head-on.
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Community & Neighbourhood Development
User Engagement Report
12 Sep 2010
This User Engagement Report maps the engagement structures in place to gather the views of 4 key groups of disadvantaged people across the East Midlands region. The groups are:
- offenders
- people with mental health problems
- people with learning disabilities
- care leavers
The report is organised on a sub-regional basis and gives a snap-shot of structures in place in the summer of 2010.
East Midlands Neighbourhood Resource Centre June 2010 Newsletter
04 Aug 2010
The East Midlands Neighbourhood Resource Centre is funded by the East Midlands Improvement & Efficiency Partnership to assist in the delivery of neighbourhood renewal at a grassroots level by equipping neighbourhood frontline practitioners such as neighbourhood wardens, housing officers, neighbourhood managers, community groups and residents with the relevant skills and knowledge to carry out their roles more effectively, in alignment with the governmentâs localism and big society agenda.
Community engagement and empowerment: a guide for councillors
30 Jul 2010
This document is a detailed guide to community empowerment for councillors, setting out an introduction to empowerment, some activities that help councillors to work with their communities, a discussion of the skills that councillors might need to work with their communities and the support available to aquire these skills.
Community empowerment is about having the conditions in place that allow local people to make a difference to improve their localities, and that encourage them to believe that it is both possible and worth it.
The guide contains useful examples of community empowerment best practice, as well as some tools that will help councillors diagnose the strengths and areas for development within their own authority's practice.
This publication was written for Local Government Improvement and Development and the Network of Empowering Authorities by the Local Government Information Unit's (LGIU) Centre for Local Democracy.
Neighbourhood Wardens Review
19 Jul 2010
A report on the activities being taken by all the neighbourhood wardens in the East Midlands.
Neighbourhood Wardens are well trained professionals who patrol town centres or neighbourhoods solving environmental problems, reducing anti-social behaviour and fear of crime, but also providing social glue within community neighbourhoods. In the East Midlands there are Neighbourhood Wardens in Ashfield, Broxtowe, Gedling, Newark & Sherwood, Nottingham; Amber Valley, Bolsover, Chesterfield, Derby Homes, South Derbyshire, South Kesteven, Lincoln, Hinckley & Bosworth, North West Leicestershire, Northampton and Wellingborough.
This latest review explains what they do.
Communities in Control
29 Apr 2010
Lincolnshire Take part project
29 Apr 2010
Response to the downturn
29 Apr 2010
Duty to involve
29 Apr 2010
Sustainable Communities Act 2007: A guide
29 Apr 2010
East Midlands REP structure 16
29 Apr 2010
East Midlands REP structure 26
29 Apr 2010
ECHO - tool to engage communities
29 Apr 2010
Adult Social Care 'communties- healthy, strong and prosperous'
27 Apr 2010
Adult Social Care 'communties- healthy, strong and prosperous' This new IDeA publication provides a compelling narrative on the future direction of adult social care services. It identifies the key issues for councils in making connections between engagement, local area agreements and community strategies. Read it to find out how to produce better outcomes for users and citizens alike.
Creating Strong, Safe and Prosperous Communities Statutory Guidance
27 Apr 2010
The Local Government and Public Involvement in Health Act received Royal Assent on October 30th 2007. This guidance explains the provisions of Part 5, Chapter 1 and Part 7 of the Act, which relate to the new statutory framework for Local Area Agreements (LAA), Joint Strategic Needs Assessments and the new, simplified best value regime, which includes a new duty to involve. It also provides updated guidance on the preparation of sustainable community strategies, under section 4 of the Local Government Act 2000. The guidance only applies to England.Local Area Agreement Operational Guidance 2007
27 Apr 2010
The operational guidance, Development of the new LAA Framework, is one of a series of publications relating to LAAs and to the comprehensive area assessment that have been published since September 2007. It gives a useful summary of the more technical aspects of the new system and reinforces the view in local government that the new LAA system will be more effective and devolutionary than the current one.Creating Strong, Safe and Prosperous Communities: Statutory Guidance
17 Mar 2010
This document provides statutory guidance to local authorities and their partners on creating strong, safe and prosperous communities. It covers local strategic partnerships, sustainable community strategies and local area agreements.
Service Design & Delivery Guide
17 Mar 2010
Reflecting recent developments in the public service reform agenda, public services providers have requested additional guidance in the areas of: 1) Take-up of e-Services 2) Efficiency Savings 3) Design of high quality public services.
