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• Plan making support Join Public community | 436 members
  Lead organisation: The Planning Advisory Service
  Lead facilitator: patricia curmi

  This community of practice gives you access to the PAS plan making support modules and is a space for you to give feedback, share your experience and get support.

• Managing Excellent Planning Services (MEPS) Join Public community | 174 members
  Lead organisation: Planning Advisory Service
  Lead facilitator: martin hutchings

  A CoP to support the Planning Advisory Service's Managing Excellent Planning Services (MEPS) programme. MEPS helps local planning authorities create useful, comparable information about the real costs of providing their service, and uses this data as the basis for making lasting improvements.

• A Scottish Enterprising Third Sector: Sustaining Access to Procurement Markets Join Public community | 13 members
  Lead organisation: Scottish Government
  Lead facilitator: graeme mckechnie

  The Scottish Government’s is keen to receive views on how enterprising third sector bodies can flourish through delivering more public contracts. Efforts are now focussed upon interventions to support third sector bodies to win public contracts for 2011-2014.

• Community Development Teams Join Public community | 15 members
  Lead organisation: Midland Heart
  Lead facilitator: Patrick Kwesiga

  break down and support people with mental health needs. Key roles of the team are service facilitator, access agents, information... Equality in Mental Health Cares (2005) which are: Appropriate and responsive services by making sure that we improve the direct clinical... in local mental health service economies. We provide and gather better information by making sure that we have better information

• Local Innovation Barcamp Apply to join Private community | 10 members
  Lead organisation: Kent County Council
  Lead facilitator: Noel Hatch

  This is a private space for people to help plan and organise the local innovation barcamp supported by Kent County Council and Medway Council.

• Stirling Youth Partnership Apply to join Private community | 42 members | This community has 1 sub-communities
  Lead organisation: Youth Services
  Lead facilitator: Bill Miller

  Stirling Youth Partnership is involved in work with young people in the Stirling area. It is well placed to play a critical role in the development of community planning by ensuring that its ‘membership’ is well informed and able to influence the Stirling agenda.

• Scottish Group: Life Stage Outcome Planning in West Lothian Apply to join Private community | 40 members | This community has 6 sub-communities
  Lead organisation: West Lothian Council
  Lead facilitator: Bob Stead

  improvements for residents at particular life stages. This CoP supports joint working between community planning partners in West Lothian who are working on the Life Stage Outcome Planning model. The community is restricted to members of the West Lothian Community Planning Partnership.

• Manchester Housing Scheme Appraisal Group - Information Exchange Workstream Apply to join Private community | 12 members
  Lead organisation: Manchester City Council
  Lead facilitator: Tim Robinson

  Collaborative workstream between council departments and external stakeholders to collate intelligence and evidence base to support the Scheme Appraisal Group.

• PIP Conformance Workstream Apply to join Private community | 18 members
  Lead organisation: Scotland Excel
  Lead facilitator: Hazel Downie

  to face meetings. Please make sure to use all of the facilities. Don't worry you won't break anything!! If you have any questions...>The last meeting of the Conformance workstream was held on the 24th June where the group agreed to focus their support to those Councils who... some assistance and support to help them improve. If you haven't already done so, please let Yvonne know if you would like her

• Scottish Local Air Quality Management Group Apply to join Private community | 42 members | This community has 1 sub-communities
  Lead organisation: Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA)
  Lead facilitator: John Lamb

  assessment, action plan.

  Welcome to the Scottish Local Air Quality Support Group. The group consists of a number of individuals who...> is important to note that if the Support Group forum is not used, it will not be allowed to continue – so please make good... area to another. The Support Group provides an opportunity to tap into this knowledge and experience by providing a means through

• Scottish Community Care Benchmarking Project Apply to join Private community | 35 members
  Lead organisation: Scottish Community Care Benchmarking Network
  Lead facilitator: Gordon Smith

  for discharge to appropriate setting Making sure reviews happen on time Measure Q3 - % of care plans reviewed within agreed timescale Carer Assessments Measure C1 - % of carers who feel supported and capable to continue in their role as a carer Shift

• Scottish Recruitment Portal Group - myjobscotland.gov.uk Apply to join Private community | 211 members
  Lead organisation: COSLA
  Lead facilitator: Douglas Shirlaw

  This community provides mutual support for colleagues engaged in the delivery of the National Recruitment Portal in Scotland, through ongoing project support, sharing of resources and promotion of best practice.

• CorVu local government users group Apply to join Private community | 199 members
  Lead organisation: London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham
  Lead facilitator: Peter Henderson

  Network for local government users in Great Britain of the CorVu performance management system/products: CorStrategy, CorBusiness, HyperVu, CorPortfolio etc. Membership restricted to current users of CorVu products, though can be extended to others at facilitator's discretion. Aims to share best practice, provide mutual help & support, identify useful enhancements & press