Decision details

The Board resolved:-

(i)            to approve the re-alignment and refresh of the existing four Locality

Leadership Groups to three Locality Empowerment Groups focussed on community empowerment and aligned to each of the IJB localities,

(ii)          to instruct the Chief Officer to work with the members of the Locality

Empowerment Groups to build their capability to help co-design the reshaping of community services delivered by the partnership,

(iii)         to note the plans of the Chief Officer to build the capability and capacity of staff within the partnership to work collaboratively with local communities in the reshaping of community services,

(iv)         to agree that we will use terminology of localities to describe large geographical areas and neighbourhoods to describe more natural communities within these boundaries,

(v)          to instruct the Chief Officer, to report within Chief Officer’s Updates to IJB on the progress towards integrated locality working,

(vi)         to instruct the Chief Officer, to report back on the progress towards integrated locality working, on 1 December 2020,

(vii)        to instruct the Chief Officer to arrange a workshop on the topic for IJB members