Community Engagement Strategy

Introduction

We are committed to being a listening council and providing a voice for rural life. The Council's vision is:

To make South Cambridgeshire a safe and healthy place where residents are proud to live and where there will be opportunities for employment, enterprise and world-leading innovation. We will be a listening Council, providing a voice
for rural life and first-class services accessible to all.

We will do this by:

  1. listening to and engaging with our local community
  2. working with voluntary organisations, Parish Councils and Cambridgeshire County Council to improve services through partnership
  3. making South Cambridgeshire District Council more open and accessible
  4. achieving improved customer satisfaction with our services
  5. ensuring that the Council demonstrates value for money in the way it works

Councils are at the heart of local democracy and it is therefore essential for us to ensure that all sections of our local community have the opportunity to engage with us. The new Comprehensive Area Assessment, due to commence from April 2009, will focus on issues that are important to the local community and will require that citizens and communities have increased opportunities to hold public services to account.

The community engagement strategy and action plan set out what we mean by engagement, why we are committed to engaging our local communities and partners and how we plan to engage now and in the future. It has been designed to ensure that engagement opportunities are provided in the most appropriate way for all stakeholders to be involved and give feedback.

 

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