Working Together - Community Involvement Strategy

 

We want to make sure everyone in Sheffield has a voice and more control over the decisions that affect them.  The Community Involvement Strategy supports our aim of making sure we listen to local people.  That's why we called it 'Putting Sheffield People in the Driving Seat'.

 

The Strategy has been developed to enable us to involve local people and to make sure they can have a say and act upon how, where and why we deliver our services and the actions we take.  We also want to encourage local communities to influence services provided by our partners.

 

The strategy is available to download at the bottom of this page.  You can request a hard copy version of either document by contacting sian.capelin@sheffield.gov.uk on 0114 273 6360. Other alternative formats are also available on request.

 

The Strategy sets out why extending citizen and community involvement in our work and in the city generally is important to us. It also sets out what we will do to lead this work, support local people and communities to be involved and empowered to take action themselves, and how we will change and develop to expand and improve involvement and democracy in Sheffield.

 

There has already been a lot of good work and excellent practice that have already taken place with ourselves, our partners and local people sharing ideas to make improvements.  Now we want to build on this and do more. 

 

The Strategy will help us to be more open and transparent in the way decisions are made and to empower local people to be part of the process.