PBU speaks at Capita's 5th Neighbourhood Management Conference

Capita’s 5th National Neighbourhood Management Conference brings together senior practitioners and expert speakers to explore opportunities to reshape and improve your local area and the services it offers.

Community empowerment features high on the current political agenda and is particularly effective in neighbourhood partnerships when identifying the needs and wants of residents. As central Government funding for neighbourhood management comes to an end, this conference looks at the benefits of devolving decision making to communities through participatory budgeting, achieving real outcomes on limited budgets.

Best practice case studies and informative sessions on local challenges and solutions will give delegates insight into ensuring the long-term sustainability and succession of various neighbourhood management initiatives, including:

• Offering personalised and tailored employment and skills support at neighbourhood level

• Ensuring effective partnership working with neighbourhood policing teams

• Delivering housing and regeneration to local communities

Attend this important event to share fresh ideas and innovative practice with fellow stakeholders committed to the regeneration of our local communities.

The Benefits of Attending

• Hear an update on the national agenda for neighbourhood management post 2009

• Take away guidance from the CLG on the National Participatory Budgeting Strategy

• Identify strategies for the effective implementation of participatory budgeting in your community

• Benefit from best practice examples of successful partnership working between the Police and neighbourhood management teams to deliver safer, more stable communities

•  Explore workable solutions to ensure the long-term sustainability of neighbourhood management schemes

• Share new ideas for joint-working to reduce unemployment in the community

• Maximise the potential of housing providers to help deliver on neighbourhood management strategy

Speakers

• Chair: Ben Hughes, Chief Executive of Bassac    

• Ching Wah Wong, Community Safety Programme Manager, Clapham Park

• Syliva Webster, Neighbourhood Partnerships Officer, Gloucester City Council   

• Anila Khalid, Regional Regeneration Manager, Harvest Housing Group

• Paul Allen, Chair of Steering Group of National Association of Neighbourhood Management

• Phil Teece, Programme Manager, Participatory Budgeting Unit

• Richard Watkins, Community Empowerment Delivery Division, Department for Communities and Local Government