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CAPACITY BUILDING FOR COMMUNITY PLANNING
APPENDIX 2 - PROVISION OF CAPACITY BUILDING OPPORTUNITIES
Values & Visioning
- Centre for Management and Policy Studies (CMPS) - a wide range of leadership and strategic management courses with a strong emphasis on culture change in line with the Modernising Government agenda. www.cabinet-office.gov.uk/innovation
- University of Glasgow - 2-day Continuing Professional Development (CPD) course in "Strategic Management in the Public Sector"
- www.gla.ac.uk/urbanstudies/CPD/index.html
- Various facilitated scenario planning and strategy development workshops offered by consultants, to support community planning, local economic forums, social inclusion partnerships, regional economic strategies in England and other collaborative strategy work.
Partnership Working
- "Working Together Learning Together" is obviously the largest programme in Scotland in the area of enhancing partnership working across the whole range of partners organisations involved in SIPs. An evaluation is due to be published in the coming months. www.wtltnet.org.uk
- The Communities Scotland "Partnership Workbook - Detailed Guidance on Partnership Working". Developed in conjunction with Eglinton in 2001-02 and currently being finalised and rolled out in Communities Scotland. Communities Scotland have also developed "Effective Partnership Working" courses and run them for their own staff and for staff of partner organisations on a regional basis. www.communitiesscotland.gov.uk
- Scottish Police College - Continuing Professional Development 1-day module in "Partnership Working" aimed at officers involved in Community Safety, Community Planning and other local partnerships. www.tulliallan.police.uk
- Centre for Management and Policy Studies "Understanding the Public Sector" programme - Aimed at helping departments, agencies and partners in local government and the NHS focus on ways to improve delivery of policy and services, on working effectively with others in the public sector and on outcomes. The programme includes opportunities to share information and innovation with others in the public sector, to work together using live case studies, and to visit organisations adopting new ways of working to deliver positive social outcomes www.cmps.gov.uk
- COSLA Sustainability Training Manual. Designed to assist councils and their community panning partners to prepare sustainability strategies and to integrate sustainability into their policies and programmes and into their dealings with their wider communities. www.cosla.gov.uk/index.asp?pageId=10001ADB9-11772721
- Health Education Board for Scotland - Open Courses in Partnership Working www.hebs.scot.nhs.uk
- Partnership by Design - process for assessment of partnerships and making the most of resources put into partnership working
- LEDQ (Local Economic Development Qualification) "Can we make partnership working more effective? - A 2-day event run in Glasgow for practitioners working in local economic development partnerships.
- Local Government National Training Organisation - "Developing Skills for Partnership Working" - interactive tool covering Leadership, Trust, Learning and Managing for Performance. Differentiates between individual and partnership development needs. /www.lgnto.gov.uk/
- TNT Modernising Government Partnership Award - Launched in 1999 at the invitation of the Cabinet Office. Open to all public sector bodies with a view to supporting the Government's drive for continuous improvement and collaborative working. www.tntaward.co.uk/
Practitioner Skills
- LEDQ (Local Economic Development Qualification) - a part-time Diploma or MSc course offered by distance learning or evening class. Partners are Glasgow, Napier and Abertay Universities. The course has modules in strategy development, project appraisal and monitoring and evaluation, with an economic development focus. http://homepage.ntlworld.com/mike.galleitch/EnvPlan/cdetails/mscled.htm
- University of Glasgow - Continuing professional development (CPD) 2-day courses in "Neighbourhood Regeneration and Renewal" and "Evaluation for Regeneration". www.gla.ac.uk/urbanstudies/CPD/index.htmlScottish Enterprise "Project Development Guidance" and Highlands and Islands Enterprise "Project Appraisal" training for staff. Likely to be updated in light of new strategic focus. www.scottish-enterprise.com/skills/
- Health Education Board for Scotland "Community Development in Primary Care" - Train the Trainers course. www.hebs.scot.nhs.uk
Engaging Communities
- Scottish Economic Action for Development "Striking a Chord" programme - promoting the potential for community voice to influence change. Within a context of linking Scottish community awareness with global issues and international development. www.sead.org.uk/
- Working Together Learning Together - This initiative, involving a consortium of agencies, forms part of a Scottish Executive programme to encourage community capacity building and bring about a shift in culture in public sector bodies towards working with, listening to and empowering communities. It provides training courses and briefings related to community participation, social justice, and partnership working as well as Intranet discussion fora. Training modules can be accessed on: http://www.wtltnet.org.uk/sitepage.htm#training
- Community Health Exchange -CHEX's principal purpose is to provide a resource to communities, which promotes and supports community development approaches in challenging health inequalities. Services include developing good practice in community development and health, and assessing training and development needs through seminars and other means. www.chex.org.uk
- Duthchas Project: The project, based in remote parts of rural Scotland, has developed step-by-step guidance for process of working with the community to develop a strategy for environmental, economic and social well being in the local community. CD ROM also available. www.dutchchas.org.uk
- Health Education Board for Scotland - Verona Initiative pilots. The Verona Initiative is a multi-partner venture bringing together political, business, academic and non-governmental leaders to explore, develop and extend understanding how social, economic and environmental factors impact on health and how using this understanding to better support partnership working in countries, regions and local communities. The Health Education Board for Scotland is involved in the piloting of work in Scotland.
- Working for Communities pathfinders - including joint training of officers and community activists in West Edinburgh to give them the skills to establish service level agreements.
General
- Wide range of degree and diploma courses at Scottish Universities in areas such as Urban Policy and Practice (Glasgow),
- University of Glasgow - CPD 2-day intensive courses in relevant areas such as community development.
- Secondments from key agencies into other partner organisations to foster mutual understanding and help mainstream partnership working. The concept is most advanced in the police and Communities Scotland. In the police secondments are common in the Community Safety Partnership area, with most forces seconding officers into local authorities
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