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CP Task Force & Implementation Group
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Community Planning Task Force: Rationalisation of Partnerships - Some Issues for Discussion
31/08/2001
Effective Partnership Working Group: Outline of some issues that may arise in any attempt to rationalise partnership and joint working arrangements, based on experience to date in one Community Planning area, and on a Council perspective. August 2001
Community Planning (CP) Task Force ‘Shared Visions' Working Group 1 Progress Report covering ‘Shared Visions' in CP: August 2001.
Community Planning (CP) Task Force Working Group 1 Briefing Paper. Covers progress of CP across Scotland to date, and what barriers exist to CP?
Note of the second Community Planning (CP) Task Force meeting on 13 June 2001. Topics: discuss any issues that had arisen from previous meetings, to receive feedback from working group activity, and to discuss and develop policy issues in relation to CP, in particular the legislative process.
Community Planning (CP) Task Force ‘Effective Partnership' Working Group 2 Progress Report, covering a wide range of related topics: joined-up working; the CoSLA paper on training for CP and partnership skills; good practice in CP and; partnership governance. 17 May 2001.
Community Planning Task Force Working Group 1 Membership and Remit: ‘Clearer Shared Vision', laying out its remit, key issues and actions: April 2001.
Community Planning Task Force Working Group 2 Membership and Remit: ‘Effective Partnering', remit, key issues and actions: April 2001.
Community Planning Task Force Working Group 3 Membership and Remit: ‘Involving Communities and Other Interests', remit, key issues and actions: April 2001.
Community Planning Task Force Working Group 4 :Charting success, added value, learning lessons
02/04/2001
Community Planning Task Force Working Group 4 Membership and Remit: ‘Charting Success, Added Value and Learning Lessons', remit and key issues: April 2001.
Community Planning Task Force Working Group 5 Legislation Sub-Group Membership and Remit: April 2001
Note of the first Community Planning Task Force (CPTF) meeting on 16-18 March 2001. Key points: what the role of CP is and what it is supposed to achieve over the coming three or four years, and the arrangements the CPTF made to take its work forward through four working groups.
Structure of the Community Planning Task Force's breakdown into working groups: March 2001 - June 2002.
Community Planning in Scotland: An Evaluation of the Pathfinder Projects: Commissioned by COSLA
30/09/1999
The School of Public Policy - University of Birmingham: Following publication of the Community Planning (CP) Working Group report in 1998, five ‘Pathfinder' CP projects were set up to assist the development of CP in Scotland. This is a short evaluative study of those projects. Analysis of each project is structured around the three main themes of CP: Partnership; Community Consultation and Involvement and; Strategy and Vision. September 1999
