We are looking for co-producers to work with us within the Prevention and Community Coordination Programme. If you are are interested in becoming involved in these Working Groups please email west.glamorgan@swansea.gov.uk
Building Community Assets
The Working Group will identify the many strengths already in communities and work alongside those communities to find local solutions to build sustainable ways of support, whilst recognising that this a very fluid area as needs often change.
The Working Group will strive to:
- Give communities a greater voice and provide opportunities to be heard by building on relationships and trust
- Coproduce the development of community assets and facilitate support identified by communities
- Utilise and build support based on natural networks in the first instance, directed by the community
- Grow confidence and build strengths already present in communities to support sustainable growth and development in order to enrich that area
- Champion individuals to build community assets from within their community
As well as communities themselves, it is intended to work alongside Local Area Coordinators, Child and Family Early Help Hub, Direct Payments and the Common Access Point to identify need and provide a consistent regional offer with local delivery.
Volunteer Strategy
One area of work for the Working Group is to identify how each partner organisation is collecting and monitoring data; agree a minimum data set to be collected and ensure a more consistent evaluation of trends. A structure of support to deliver against this will also be agreed. Working with volunteers to identify their needs to coproduce a better way of working across the partnership will not only change the outcomes and benefits to individuals, it will also have an impact on statutory services.
The Working Group will agree a structure to support the Regional Volunteer Strategy, develop a set of principles around volunteering, produce a draft vision for volunteers that will include citizens and volunteers on a regional approach to volunteering and consider what objectives are required to achieve that vision.
Possibilities for People
The Working Group will engage with communities on the main themes identified at previous events and agreed to share knowledge and best practice amongst partners in order to meet the needs of citizens.
Scope of the work:
- Isolation and loneliness
- Mental health and resilience challenges
- Digital poverty and exclusion
- Transport (including community transport)
- The lack of informal social opportunities
- The cost of living crisis
- Poverty of access
The Working Group will look to engage with communities in a number of ways including face to face events, social activities such as pop in sessions, look to join community activities and by linking with key community and ward members. This group should reflect the voice of the community and support the needs identified at community level.
The Working Group will look at gathering data processes to identify what can be taken forward and will map out services already being delivered across the region and share best practice in order to further develop this work and engage fully with the community.
Social & Micro Enterprise
The Working Group will seek to agree a regional definition of social and micro enterprise and to help build a culture of social value organisations; creating resilience within communities and therefore reducing the need for statutory service intervention until necessary. In order to achieve this, the Working Group will share best practice across the partnership and identify the overarching principles that will support this work.
As with the other areas of work, there is already a great deal of work being undertaken by the third sector and statutory partners, therefore the Working Group will share knowledge and best practice to identify what services are available and working well and where there are gaps in service. This approach will also ensure a consistency of what is available across the regional footprint.