A Shared Community
Relationship building and charters for unitary authorities and community and town councils.
Charters can enhance relationships within local government in a number of ways, not least because the process of agreeing a charter entails assessing the values and behaviour which underpin any interaction.
WAG/WLGA/OVW joint guidance on charters:
A Shared Community - Relationship building and charters for unitary authorities and community and town councils
Charter Network
A Charter network for all community and town council liaison officers was established in January 2010. Contact details of the charter network can be found below along with the agenda and papers from previous network charter meetings:-
Charter Network Contact List
Charter Working Event 25th January 2010 - Feedback from discussions
Charter Network Meeting 18th April 2011 - Feedback from discussion, notes from speaker presentations and further information
Charter Meeting Network 18 April 2011 - Presentation from Denbighshire County Council
Example Charters and Protocol Arrangements
Vale of Glamorgan - Charter February 2008
Torfaen - Charter 2009
Bridgend Charter 2009
Carmarthenshire - Protocol
Gwynedd Council Penllyn Partnership
Useful Guidance and Information
More information regarding the Local Government Wales Measure 2011 can be found at the following weblinks.
Letter sent from the Minister of Social Justice and Local Government to all unitary authorities and community and town councils in April 2010. It spoke of the importance of charters, as well as, the progress that has been made to establish charters.
Letter from the Minister for Social Justice and Local Government
Learning to Improve – Evaluation of Assembly Government policy for Local Government (first annual report and summary outlining the findings from a survey of local authority officials and elected members around the themes of collaboration, central-local relations and citizen engagement).
One Voice Wales Development Officers
Lyn Llewellyn - South Wales (Neath/Swansea)
07917 846511 or email: lyn.llewellyn@onevoicewales.org.uk
Paul Egan - South Wales
07917 846512 or email: paul.egan@onevoicewales.org.uk
**VACANT** - North Wales
07917 846510 or email: admin@onevoicewales.org.uk
Del Morgan - Mid Wales
07917 846513 or email: del.morgan@onevoicewales.org.uk
