COMMUNITY ENGAGEMENT IN NORTHUMBERLAND

We believe that you should be involved in decisions about services which affect your life. This includes how we give information about our services and how we involve you in shaping and developing those services and improvements.

Community engagement is all about recognising that we need to involve you in what we do. We need to speak in a language that everyone can understand by cutting out jargon.

We need to tell you what our plans are and to listen to your ideas. And we need to be prepared to make adjustments, to show we listen and recognise that sometimes there are better ways of doing things.

Latest Engagement News:

IRMP: Read about the plans Northumberland Fire and Rescue Service has made to help keep Northumberland's communities safe.Click here. Once you have done that fill in this survey online to tell us what you think.

Developing LINks (Local Involvement Networks: A new approach is proposed to give power to the people through engaging communities in Health & Social Care decision-making. This report aims to give as wide a range of individuals and organisations as possible an opportunity to shape these developments. Please click here to download the Northumberland LINks Health and Social Care survey (MSword).

Northumberland Childcare Survey: Northumberland Early Years and Childcare Service are undertaking an audit of childcare provision available in the County, to develop a more detailed understanding of the childcare needs in your area. Your views are really important in helping us to decide how to plan new services that will be useful for you and your children. Please click here to fill in our online childcare survey

Northumberland Community Transport Survey: We are asking for views on our draft Community Transport Strategy. The strategy looks at how we can set out a vision for community transport for the next 5 years and its aim is to ensure that Community Transport meets the needs of the people it serves. Click here to view the Community Transport Strategy for Northumberland and then click here to fill in the Community Transport survey.

Ways to get involved:

The links at the top of this page will give you more information about our plans and how you can become involved. You can access a database of all our consultation exercises, see why they were carried out and read the conclusions.

We want to know what you think about where you live and about the things that affect your lives. We also want the many different sections in our community to become involved in subjects that they have a special interest in.

Our commitment to you:

We’ll provide you with information on the services we provide for you.
We’ll let you know what consultation we are planning and how you can become involved.
We’ll provide you with different ways of responding to consultation.
We’ll listen to the views of residents, businesses, partners and community organisations and take these into account when making decisions.
We’ll let you know the outcomes of consultation.

Tell us what you think

If you have any queries or suggestions about this site please click here to contact us.