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The Neighbourhood Partnership Scheme
Local Community Planning in Edinburgh
Neighbourhood Partnerships (NPs) began meeting in August 2007,
to make sure local communities have more influence on a wide
range of services delivered in their area. They are part of
the way our city's public agencies are working together
to meet our duty to deliver local community
planning.
The Council agreed a scheme for Neighbourhood Partnerships to
operate in March 2007. The scheme, with a constitution for
NPs, explains how they should operate and how they
should involve representatives from other public agencies and the
local community.
You can download or view the report to the Council meeting of 8
March 2007, that set out the scheme for Neighbourhood Partnerships
here.
The minutes of that meeting, include an amendment to the NP
Constitution.
We have developed a Handbood for NP members which
gives more information for those who are involved in or interested
in NPs.
How NPs work in practice
Neighbourhood Partnerships each develop short term (3 years)
Local Community Plans which set out the main issues and priorities
for each NP area. These plans identify the activities that partners
will work on together to address these priorities and help the NPs
to monitor their progress.
Each NP has Action Groups which bring local people and
partners together to work on one of the themes of the local
community plan, such as Health and Well Being, or the
local Environment.
Action groups (sometimes called 'sub groups') help partners to
better coordinate their work together, and to make sure that
services improve in a way that will meet local needs.
You can find out more about the Local Community Plans and action
groups for each NP from their individual home pages on this
website.
