Community Action Plans
Guidance notes for partners
Community Action Plans (CAPs) have been developed by Community Committees following extensive consultation with communities and support and information from neighbourhood management teams to address local priorities. They are a key way that local people can influence decisions in their area, which is a target for us in our local area agreement and local public service agreement.
CAPs offer partners the opportunity to link the priorities of communities to their existing priorities and targets, delivering for both the community and to meet their own targets, such as those in the Salford Agreement, our local area agreement.
The delivery of CAPs will be the responsibility of those agencies who accept the lead for each action, and progress will be monitored and supported by the Neighbourhood Partnership Boards and reported to Community Committees.
Read the CAPs by area | Read the actions by pledge Encouraging learning, leisure and creativity in Salford Investing in young people in Salford Promoting inclusion in Salford |
The process of completing CAPs
At this stage the CAPs are in draft form - they are a list of potential actions under each pledge which aim to address local priorities. Partners are asked, as experts in their field, to review actions assigned to them and consider the following:
- Does the action address the objective?
- Is the action the most appropriate way to contribute to the objective?
- As the 'delivery lead', will you accept the action and the responsibility of delivering and driving the action forward including providing the necessary resources?
The role and responsibilities of the delivery lead are to:
- Liaise, as appropriate, with colleagues, senior officers and other partners to determine if CAP actions are feasible
- Ensure resources are available to deliver the action, for example, staff and funding which may mean inclusion in agency budget planning processes
- Explain why actions will not be progressed, if this is the case, so that communities can be given feedback
- Provide local data to measure and monitor the success of the action
- Ensure the CAP action is incorporated into service business plans as a mainstream activity and is prioritised by partners
- Review and amend if appropriate, the milestones and dates for actions
- Mark the decision of the lead by completing the right hand boxes, green if the action will be delivered by the lead, red if it will not, and amber if it will be partly delivered or there are still issues to be negotiated. Comments on the action should be added in the progress column if necessary, and in all cases where there is an amber response please explain this. See example:
| Ref no | New Item? | Objective | Action | Delivery led by | Resources allocated | Outcomes/targets | Milestones | Status |
| 7.3.4 | Yes | To reduce road traffic accidents | Review street parking around Salford University | Urban Vision (Dave Dean & Steven Lee) | £xx allocated in mainstream budget | A reduction in accidents around the university | Plan (04/08) Deliver (08/08) Evaluate (03/09) | Green |
| Progress.. |
Partners are expected to respond on the feasibility of delivering actions by 31st January 2008. This will give partners 3 months, from November to establish if their actions are plausible through:
- Liaising with other partners
- Discussing with colleagues
- Negotiating with Neighbourhood Managers
- Understanding the context of local priorities within mainstream service delivery
Partners may respond to CAPs in one of 2 ways either:
- Directly to the Neighbourhood Manager concerned who will record the outcome in the draft CAP
- To Diana Martin (copying in Tricia Kirkman) who will report outcomes back to Neighbourhood Managers
Following the feedback from partners, community committees have the opportunity to consider whether they wish to pursue other means to deliver the priorities not agreed by partners, such as the use of the devolved budget, bidding for external funds and community and voluntary activity.
The delivery of the agreed CAPs will be monitored by the Neighbourhood Partnership Boards, who have a responsibility to promote better partnership working and improvements to services locally. They will report progress to Community Committees.
Progress on the CAPs overall will be reported to the Salford Strategic Partnership in early 2008
Diana Martin Neighbourhood Management Co-ordinator
November 2007
0161 793 2929