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Community planning seminar
18/11/2003
Community planning partnerships from across the North
East and Central Scotland will meet today at the first
regional seminar organised by the Community Planning
Implementation Group.
The seminar will bring together the Community Planning
Partnerships of Aberdeen, Aberdeenshire, Fife, Angus,
Stirling, Falkirk, Clackmannanshire, Perth and Kinross, and
Dundee. It will give them an opportunity to meet and work
together, forge stronger relationships and share experience
and ideas.
Community planning aims to ensure services are built
around the needs of the people who use them. It is vital to
delivering improved public services and to ensure that
public bodies such as local authorities, health, police and
fire services all work together in a more effective
way.
Willie Rae, the chair of the Community Planning
Implementation Group and Chief Constable of Strathclyde
Police welcomed the regional seminar for the North East and
Central Scotland. He said:
"Community Planning is vital to the improved delivery of
public services throughout Scotland. It puts communities at
the heart of this process and I welcome that this event is
focusing on effective engagement and involvement of
communities in Community Planning.
"This event will help the partnerships from the North
East and Central Scotland to meet and work together,
forging stronger relationships and the sharing good
practice in community involvement and service development.
All partnership areas are sending delegates to the event
and community members will also be attending and providing
insights and contributions to the debates and
workshops.
"We want agencies to be bold, flexible and innovative in
trying out new approaches to delivering services and this
event will help partnerships to discuss such innovation and
share interesting and new ways of doing things.
"Effective partnership working and joining-up effort
requires vision and commitment from all public agencies and
the willingness of participants from across these
partnerships areas to contribute to this event, I think,
certainly sends out the message that the vision and
commitment is in place and that partnerships are rising to
the challenge of Community Planning."