Report - London Borough of Hillingdon
Report - London Borough of Hillingdon
Report - London Borough of Hillingdon
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connecting<br />
communities<br />
forum is as<br />
effective as<br />
possible.<br />
• Identify best<br />
practice from<br />
elsewhere on<br />
how to engage<br />
‘hard to reach<br />
‘communities.<br />
Local<br />
Consultation<br />
• Complete local<br />
question time<br />
meetings.<br />
• Develop<br />
community<br />
councillor role<br />
• Continue local<br />
question time and<br />
consider taking to<br />
more local level.<br />
• Establish<br />
community<br />
councillors at<br />
heart <strong>of</strong> local<br />
engagement and<br />
ensure their<br />
comments<br />
feedback into<br />
service<br />
development .<br />
• Introduce annual<br />
locality<br />
conferences in<br />
the three<br />
parliamentary<br />
constituencies to<br />
replace the<br />
community<br />
conference.<br />
• Take stock <strong>of</strong><br />
local ‘hard to<br />
reach’ groups.<br />
• Continue local<br />
question time,<br />
engaging local<br />
councillors.<br />
• Introduce area<br />
forums to<br />
supplement<br />
locality<br />
conferences.<br />
• Introduce area O<br />
and S committees<br />
to cover<br />
parliamentary<br />
constituencies.<br />
• Identify and<br />
implement<br />
proposals to<br />
reach local ‘hard<br />
to reach’ groups<br />
There is an<br />
increasing<br />
Government focus<br />
on neighbourhood<br />
and more local<br />
engagement. It is<br />
inevitable that<br />
Government will<br />
expect all councils<br />
to take action to<br />
increase local<br />
engagement.<br />
• Identify<br />
manageable<br />
number <strong>of</strong><br />
established<br />
groups by area<br />
to begin some<br />
form <strong>of</strong> dialogue<br />
with eg <strong>of</strong>ficer<br />
and /or member<br />
• Extend number <strong>of</strong><br />
existing groups<br />
with which some<br />
dialogue is<br />
developed<br />
through <strong>of</strong>ficer /<br />
member contact.<br />
• Include contact<br />
responsibilities in<br />
• Further extend so<br />
there is <strong>of</strong>ficer or<br />
member contact<br />
at least once a<br />
year with range <strong>of</strong><br />
existing groups<br />
across the<br />
borough.<br />
PART 1 – MEMBERS, PUBLIC AND PRESS<br />
The key issue<br />
here is that there<br />
are many existing<br />
groups already in<br />
the borough which<br />
the council can<br />
use to extend its<br />
consultation and<br />
engagement<br />
Cabinet report 10 th November 2005 Page 62
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