Viewpoint Event Postponed

Because of a slightly lower sign up than we hoped (due to the busy christmas period) we have had to postpone the next viewpoint event scheduled for tommorrow night and have moved it to the 19th January. 

We hope you can join us then

Let us know if you have any questions,

Regards

Steven Taylor

02392 688508

Does my Society Look Big In This???? Next Viewpoint

The next Viewpoint event will be held on the 14th December at 5pm in the View Cafe in the Civic Offices.

This time we will be looking at Health, Wellbeing and Choice and have confimed Tony Horne from the University of Portsmouth as a speaker.  The changes in the NHS and the new localism agenda have implications for all of us and the people we work with and will be discussed along with a number of other topics.

Come along and share your views

Register here

Bring on the Big Society

The third of the Viewpoint series of events focussed on new rights being given to communities, local government staff and individual members of the public through the Localism Bill.  The rights to challenge, buy and build are all new and different ways of thinking about how services will be delivered in the future.  

Paddy May, the councils strategy manager gave an overview on these new rights that are contained in the Localism Bill that has now received royal assent.  Paddy mentioned that the changes such as the right to challenge are not about functions but rather about the services local councils provide.  So accountability for planning applications, for example, will not be taken away from elected councillors as this is a vital function of local councils.  This new right is about someone offering to provide an existing service in a better way.