This service involves and empowers local people by giving them the skills to form effective partnerships with their local authority and become active citizens. This model for community empowerment will involve the whole community, including those who were previously thought of as hard to reach. Empowerment will enable them to have a real say in the provision of public services.

Working with local communities to set priorities is a new and complex discipline that presents local councils with a range of new challenges.

As new communities emerge with different needs and aspirations, the test is to bring empowerment frameworks and mechanisms up to speed, to ensure that small and under represented communities as well as the established community are effectively engaged.

Objectives:

• To develop a community empowerment model that is flexible to the changing needs of the local community.
• To form a sustainable partnership between communities and the local authorities so that their priorities truly reflect the needs and priorities of the local community.

Who is it for?

• Community members
• SMEs
  
• Social Enterprises
  
• Line managers
• Front line staff

Why choose Sabe?

• It is capable of generating considerable efficiency savings
• We have the knowledge, experience and expertise that will enable you to engage with your whole community, even groups that were previously thought of as hard to reach e.g. Black Minority Ethnic communities, people with disabilities and from different religious backgrounds.
• We can help your organisation to develop community empowerment frameworks that are robust, sustainable and flexible to the needs and changing needs of the local community.
• The methods your communities and staff learn can be used to monitor and evaluate services.
• The process can be scaled down and applied to assess any aspect of a service

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