Archived decisions

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Community Engagement

On-going

Proposed improvements

· Ensuring the authority consults all relevant stakeholders over strategies, policies, and priorities early enough to enable the results of the consultation to influence the outcome.

· Make better use of existing consultation mechanisms

· Better coordinate the organisations' consultation to inform decisions

· Improve the mechanisms for disseminating the findings of consultation to ensure they inform policy and service development across the organisation and partners.

Progress in implementing the Improvement Plan

· The review team have identified key outcomes for effective consultation arrangements that also meet the recommendations in the CPA Corporate Assessment. Implementing the improvement plan will move the Council nearer to achieving these outcomes, although further consideration will be needed when all the information for the preferred option is available.

· The preferred option is to create a central market research co-ordinator. The review team identified that further work would be needed to make a business case for funding a new post and anticipates that the current investment in consultation activity should yield sufficient efficiency gains to achieve this in the future. The improvement plan therefore incorporates activity to build such a business case.