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Chapter 3: Planning<br />
Task Three:<br />
Getting the Alliance to agree to goals within<br />
the strategy<br />
This is another highly significant meeting of the Alliance, following on from that<br />
held to discuss the initial findings from the older people’s consultations. The<br />
members of the <strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong> Alliance will have had time to reflect on what older<br />
people said and be considering solutions to concerns raised at the consultations.<br />
Getting commitment from the most senior managers of the agencies and<br />
services on the Alliance is the foundation to building and sustaining a healthy<br />
<strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong> programme.<br />
This meeting will give them a chance to firm up these suggestions and put them<br />
into a short, medium or long term goal or plans within the strategy. Often, other<br />
meetings that frontline staff from the various organisations attend as well as the<br />
senior managers are necessary before these goals can be formally agreed on.<br />
This is also a good time for the <strong>Age</strong> <strong>Friendly</strong> Alliance members to think about<br />
how they will form working groups to move forward on these plans and report<br />
back to the Alliance meeting. There will be more detail on forming these working<br />
groups in the next chapter.<br />
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