Issue - meetings
Brent Engagement Strategy
Meeting: 26/07/2010 - Executive (Item 16)
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This report presents Executive members with a draft of the new Community Consultation, Engagement and Empowerment Strategy – the Brent Engagement Strategy 2010/14. This strategy replaces the Community Consultation and Engagement Strategy 2006/09.
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Decision:
that the draft of the new Community Consultation, Engagement and Empowerment Strategy be adopted as the Brent Engagement Strategy 2010-14, the strategy to be published formally in August 2010.
Minutes:
The Director of Communication’s report presented Executive members with a draft of the new Community Consultation, Engagement and Empowerment Strategy – the Brent Engagement Strategy 2010/14 which replaced the Community Consultation and Engagement Strategy 2006/09. The new strategy was a framework, partnership document, developed in the first instance between the Council and NHS Brent and overseen by the consultation board. The strategy was open to adoption by all member agencies of the local strategic partnership, ‘Partners for Brent’.
Councillor Jones (Lead Member, HR and Diversity, Local Democracy and Consultation) highlighted the diversity implications of the new strategy designed for the most diverse borough in the UK: 54% of the population being from black and ethnic communities, a quarter of residents aged under 19 years or under and 130 languages being spoken in Brent schools. It was noted that the strategy committed the council and its partners to including ethnic minority communities and under-represented and seldom-heard groups in consultation and engagement activities.
The Executive noted that the future of one of the council’s partners, the Primary Care Trust, was subject to central government review however the Director advised that strategy had been designed around broad principles and the consultation process were was sufficiently flexible to be able to respond to change.
RESOLVED:-
that the draft of the new Community Consultation, Engagement and Empowerment Strategy be adopted as the Brent Engagement Strategy 2010-14, the strategy to be published formally in August 2010.