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Community Wellbeing Engagement Update

Meeting: 11/11/2020 - Cabinet (Item 49)

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To consider the report of the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods seeking to update Members on the community engagement work of the Community Wellbeing Team.

 

Decision:

RESOLVED that the community engagement work undertaken by the Community Wellbeing Team, particularly using Asset Based Community Development and strengths-based working, be noted.

Minutes:

Cabinet considered the report of the Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods that updated Members on the community engagement work of the Community Wellbeing Team.

 

The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods emphasised the importance of the ABCD approach embedded within the team to the positive outcomes for residents described in the report.  She commented that she considered them to be like the `beating heart’ of the council due to their influence on all departments.  The Cabinet Member for Communities and Neighbourhoods gave examples of where vulnerable people and communities had been supported by officers and thanked them for it.  The Cabinet Member for Environment added his own praise for officers and drew Members’ attention to further incidences of community engagement generating real benefits such as the food supply arrangements set up during the COVID-19 pandemic. 

 

RESOLVED that the community engagement work undertaken by the Community Wellbeing Team, particularly using Asset Based Community Development and strengths-based working, be noted.