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(LOCAL GOVERNMENT AND HOUSING COMMITTEE )Tj
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(COMMUNITY STRATEGIES \226 CONSIDERATION OF RESPONSES TO CONSULTATION )Tj
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(Purpose)Tj
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(1. The Committee is asked to note the responses to the consultation )Tj
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(on draft Community Strategies guidance and to offer any further observat\
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(Background )Tj
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(2. Some 90 written responses were received from county and county boroug\
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(Welsh Local Government Association, town and community councils, nationa\
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(service, trade unions, a wide range of public sector bodies and voluntar\
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(behalf of local partnerships, following joint discussion. Generally, res\
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(Rationalisation of plans )Tj
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(3. There was widespread support for using the community strategy to redu\
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(the number of plans required of local authorities and their partners. Ma\
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(Partnerships)Tj
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(4. Many respondents referred to existing partnerships which would form a\
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(community strategies. The role of national public bodies was raised: the\
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(partnership working to support community strategies as a duty in the sam\
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(5. Community councils stressed their potential role, particularly where \
village or town plans )Tj
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(6. The Post Office expressed disappointment that there was not more in t\
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(7. As with Communities First, respondents pointed out that agencies and \
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(need support for significant cultural change and to learn how to work di\
fferently. At the same )Tj
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(8. Several respondents pointed out the resource implications of engaging\
fully in developing a )Tj
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(9. How to engage with the public on a wide scale was an issue raised by \
a number of )Tj
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(authorities and the suggestion of making available research and good pra\
ctice on public )Tj
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(participation was welcomed. Plans needed to take account of the views of\
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(Equality of opportunity, sustainability and tackling social disadvantage\
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(10. The Wales Council for the Deaf pointed out what could be achieved in\
community )Tj
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(strategies for the deaf and hard of hearing. The recognition of faith co\
mmunities in the )Tj
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(guidance was welcomed and their potential positive contribution underlin\
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(11. It was generally agreed that Local Agenda 21 plans should be subsume\
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(community strategy and that, where they had been properly developed, the\
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(12. While respondents recognised that tackling social disadvantage shoul\
d be a theme of )Tj
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(community strategies some also pointed out that community strategies wou\
ld allow the )Tj
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(13. The consultation document sought views on whether community strategi\
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(14. Respondents generally thought that both short term \(annual\) progre\
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(15. Respondents felt it was important for the process of developing comm\
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(practice was being shared and Assembly policies were being informed by l\
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(16. The responses to consultation will be taken into account in framing \
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