Stronger Communities: From National Indicators to Local Delivery

12/12/2008

Presentations, Evaluation and Resource Information

Somerset College of Arts and Technology, Taunton
9.30am - 4.00pm, Thursday 2nd October 2008

Conference Report

‘Our vision is of revitalised local authorities, working with their partners, to reshape public services around the citizens and communities that use them’
‘Strong and Prosperous Communities’ – The Local Government White Paper

Summary

This conference, hosted by South West Forum and supported by Government Office for the South West, Capacitybuilders and Empowering Communities (the regional empowerment partnership), took the form of a day-long workshop for an invited audience of local authority officers, other public sectors and representatives of infrastructure organisations in the voluntary/community sector. The following documents give a summary of the conference key themes and content. Just click on the relevant links:

Conference Report (PDF 585KB)
Keynote Speech (PDF 292KB) – notes of the presentation by Jon Bright, Regional Director of Government Office for the South West
‘Barriers to implementing National Indicators 4 and 7’ (PDF 242KB) – flipcharts of roundtable discussions
Programme; (PDF 241KB) Speaker Profiles; (PDF 171KB) Attendance List; (PDF144KB) Evaluation summary (PDF 270KB)

Resource File

Useful links and docs

National Outcome and Indicator Set

Powerpoint Presentations

Third Sector Engagement in 2008-2009 Local Area Agreements in the South West Region (ppt 270KB) Roger Haworth, Policy & Sector Development Officer

National Indicator Four Benchmarking Exercise (ppt 750KB) Rebekah Southern and Lorna Bell, Socio-economic Research and Intelligence Observatory (SERIO), University of Plymouth.

NI7 and Beyond: A Thriving Third Sector (ppt 195KB) Jo Crease, Office of the Third Sector.

Stronger Communities (ppt 1MB) Paul Clarke, SW Regional Improvement and Efficiency Partnership.

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