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Resident and leaseholder involvement
Medway Council is committed to involving our customers in
everything we do to ensure our services
continuously improve and meet your needs. You
can get involved with the council in many different ways to help us
improve the services you receive and the area you live: from
setting and monitoring standards for caretaking to developing
service plans, targets and strategies for the future.
Your feedback helps us make sure that the services we provide
directly match your needs. We have recently developed a range of
Local Offers using the feedback you provided to us to tailor our
services to your requirements.
The council will provide training and support and arrange
transportation to and from meeting events and will pay for
childminder or carers costs. We have also have a range of
meetings at various times during the day and after office
hours.
How can I get involved?
Getting involved makes for better local services and stronger
communities and ensures that you have a leading role to play
in shaping and influencing how services are delivered.
To help you decide which best level of involvement is most
suitable for you we have categorised our involvement opportunities
into low, medium and high levels of commitment;
Estate champions
If you have a keen interest in your area, are friendly with your
neighbours and have a few spare hours each month, you may want to
become a street voice or estate champion. As an estate champion,
you will be the point of contact for your area, tell the council
what's good and what's bad about things on your estate and hear
about what it is going to do to improve things. You must show that
you have the support of at least five of your neighbours to become
a street voice or estate champion.
Tenant and Resident Associations (TRAs)
TRAs are formal groups of people working together and in
partnership with the council to improve things in their
neighbourhood. A TRA must have a formally-agreed constitution (an
agreement setting out how the group will operate), work
democratically and be open to all. A TRA holds formal meetings,
usually on a monthly basis, and requires more commitment in terms
of time than the methods of involvement mentioned above. We will
provide advice and support for Tenant and Residents Associations,
and will also attend meetings when requested. Tenant and Resident
Associations can also apply for funding from the Council.
Resident Engagement strategy
We have recently reviewed our Resident Involvement
Strategy using the consultation work for the local standard for
Tenant Involvement and Empowerment and feedback we received from
you when producing the Annual Report to Tenants and
Leaseholders.
Download the 2012/13
Resident Engagement Strategy (pdf 119KB). To use this file you
will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. If you do not have it on your
computer, please use our advice page.
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