Community Planning Information Pack

Community Planning Information Pack

Introduction Page 3

What Is Community Planning? Section 1

General Power Of Competence Section 2

Reform of Local Government Reform Section 3

New Health Structures Section 4

New Education Structures Section 5

Special Programmes Section 6

Sub Regional Community Networks Section 7

Northern Assembly Section 8

Community Planning Briefing Newssheets Section 9

Community Places Section 10

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Introduction

This Community Planning Information Pack has been published by Community Places as part of our Supporting Communities in Community Planning Project. The Project is funded by the Big Lottery Fund Reaching Communities Programme.

The aims of the pack are to enable community and voluntary groups to better understand Community Planning, support them in their efforts to shape its design and implementation and to help them prepare for its introduction. The pack provides information on the current proposals for Community Planning and on how it operates in other countries. It also includes details of the new 11 District Council model, changes within the structures of the Health and Education Services and the structures for the delivery of a number of funding programmes.

The contact details for urban and rural community development networks who provide advice and support to communities during this time of unique and unprecedented change are also provided. Our Supporting Communities in Community Planning Project is working with these networks to provide information for local community groups and to develop their capacity for engagement with Community Planning. We are also working with networks to develop models and examples of locally focused community plans.

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Section 1 - Community Planning

What is Community Planning?

Community Planning is a relatively new term to the region and has recently come to the fore with the Review of Public Administration (RPA) and the Reform of Local Government. However in other regions including Scotland, England, Wales and the Community Planning has been implemented in one form or another for over a decade.

Perhaps the most straightforward definition of Community Planning is provided by Audit Scotland in its Report "Community Planning: An Initial Review". It defines Community Planning as:

"the process through which public sector organisations work together and with local communities and the voluntary sector, to identify and solve local problems, improve services and share resources".

This definition is a great starting point, but in order to distinguish the different aspects of Community Planning proposed here from those elsewhere, it is important to understand the key elements of Community Planning, outlined by the then Minister of Environment, MLA in a statement to the Assembly in March 2008. The Minster said key components will include:

• an effective, statute-based Community Planning process;

• led and facilitated by the new councils;

• a clear statutory requirement on all other public bodies including policing, health and education bodies to participate in and support the Community Planning process;

• a clear duty placed on councils to engage with local communities to produce a community plan.

The table overleaf gives examples of how Community Planning has been described both here and in other countries where it already operates. The examples range from strategic views to local definitions. A list of useful websites is also provided.

In order to fully embrace the potential for Community Planning, it is important to have an understanding of the overall decisions that have emerged from the Review of Public Administration and specifically those relating to local government. The following sections identify the key decisions and how they will impact upon communities at a local level.

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Section 1 - Community Planning

What is Community Planning?

The following definitions are taken from a range of sources including Government Legislation, Council Community Plans/Strategies and Local Community Plans.

Scotland England and Wales Republic of Ireland

Strategic View Community Planning is a Public bodies need to identify A County/City Development The aim of Community Planning process whereby the public and understand the needs and Board operates under the aegis is to make sure that people and services in the area of a Local aspirations of their citizens and of each County or City Council. communities are genuinely Authority are planned and the communities that they serve, engaged in decisions made provided after consultation and and then plan to meet those in The Boards bring together all about the public services which (ongoing) co-operation among the most responsive, players locally – the public affect them. all public bodies and with accountable and effective way. sector agencies, the social community bodies. partners, local government and Allied to this is a At the local level, this means local development – to seek commitment/duty by all those Local Government Act 2003 local authorities and other common cause in developing who deliver services in the partners working closely to their counties and cities, in council area to work together to shape the medium- and long- planning for the future with provide co-ordinated, high- term development of their areas better co-operation and co- quality outcomes people rightly while actively engaging with ordination and to operate in a expect. The drive for Community citizens and communities as a more integrated way. Planning should be seen in the vital part of that process. A context of the process to create process known as Community Department of Environment more responsive and effective Planning. and Local Government public services for citizens.

'Local Vision' - Review of Public Statutory Guidance from the Administration Welsh Assembly Government

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Scotland England and Wales Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland

Council View Community Planning is the Community Planning is a way of The Louth County Development The proposed Community process through which the giving local people the Board brings together various Planning process will provide a connections between national opportunity to create a shared strands involved in local framework for making public priorities decided by the Scottish vision for their area and identify government, local development, services responsive to, and Executive and those at priorities for action which are the state agencies at local level organised around, the needs of Highland, local and agreed by a wide range of and the social partners which communities. The two main neighbourhood levels are people, organisations and includes the community and aims of Community Planning improved. groups. voluntary sector. The broad can be described as: functions of the Board are to: It is about making sure that Devon County Council • making sure people and people and communities in the • draw up a comprehensive communities are genuinely Highlands are genuinely County Strategy on social, engaged in the decisions made engaged in making decisions on economic and cultural on public services which affect public services which affect development; them; allied to them. It requires a commitment • identify gaps and • a commitment from from organisations in the duplication in local service organisations to work together, Highlands to work together, not delivery; not apart, in providing better apart, in providing better public • nurture constructive co- public services. services. operation and active participation by all members Northern Ireland Local The Highlands Council of the Board based on a Government Association partnership approach; • oversee the implementation of the Strategy.

Louth County Development Board

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Scotland England and Wales Republic of Ireland Northern Ireland

Local View Community Planning is a way of Community Planning is about The local strategy addresses the Community Planning is the working that brings together working across organisational economic, social and physical opportunity for communities and organisations and the and geographic boundaries to development of Dunmanway individuals to have a say in the communities they serve to use resources more effectively and its hinterland and sets out a way they are governed, in the improve the quality and range of and to ensure that communities framework of objectives and decisions that affect their lives services for local people. are able to influence decision- actions for the next ten to fifteen and the way public money is making. years, with a view to making the spent. Wigtown Area Community area a better place to live, learn, Plan Llanelli Community Network work, visit and do business. 'Putting the Community into Community Planning' – Dunmanway Integrated Sustainable Northern Ireland Development Strategy, Cork Project

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Useful Websites

Community Planning

Community Places www.communityplaces.info

Community Planning Toolkit www.communityplanningtoolkit.org

Republic of Ireland www.cdb.ie

England www.communityplanning.net

Scotland http://www.improvementservice.org.uk/community-planning-and-single-outcome- agreements/

Wales http://wales.gov.uk/topics/localgovernment/partnership/commstrategies

Government

Review of Public Administration Updates www.rpani.gov.uk

Department of Education www.deni.gov.uk

Department of Environment – lead department on restructuring local government. http://www.doeni.gov.uk/index/local_government/local_government_reform.htm

Department of Health, Social Services and Public Safety www.dhsspsni.gov.uk

Northern Ireland Assembly www.niassembly.gov.uk

Official Statistics for Northern Ireland www.ninis.nisra.gov.uk

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Section 2 – General Power of Competence

General Power of Competence

Alongside the responsibility of leading the Community Planning process, new councils will also be able to use the General Power of Competence, but what does this mean?

According to the Department of the Environment's website 'The General Power of Competence will enable a council, in broad terms, to act with similar freedom to an individual, unless there is a law to prevent it from doing so. It will provide a council with the ability to act in their own interest and to develop innovative approaches to addressing issues within their area'.

Although the General Power of Competence has not yet been introduced here, we can examine the practical implementation of similar powers in England, Wales and Scotland, to provide a background to the power and how it may be applied here in the future.

England

The General Power of Competence was introduced by the Localism Act 2011 and took effect in February 2012. In simple terms, it gives councils the power to do anything an individual can do provided it is not prohibited by other legislation. It encourages councils to use this power to work with others in providing cost-effective services and facilities in innovative ways to meet the needs of local people. It applies to all principal councils and to eligible parish and town councils.

The General Power of Competence replaces the well-being powers in England that were provided under the Local Government Act 2000.

Wales

The Welsh government agreed to continue to implement the Power of Well-being 'which enables local authorities to do anything that they consider is likely to promote or improve the economic, social or environmental well-being of their area and/or persons in it, provided that they are not restricted from doing so by other legislation' (Statutory Guidance to Welsh Local Authorities on the Power to Promote or Improve Economic, Social or Environmental Well-Being under the Local Government Act 2000). The power came into force in April 2011.

The Power of Well-being enables local authorities to do anything that they consider is likely to achieve the promotion or improvement of any one or more of the following:

− economic well-being of their area; − social well-being of their area; − environmental well-being of their area; − health well-being of their area; and − promoting sustainable development in their area.

Actions that councils may undertake include, but are not limited to, giving financial assistance, incurring [unlimited] expenditure, facilitating and co-ordinating activities and providing staff, goods and services or accommodation to any person. Councils can look to well-being in the first instance, rather than searching for an alternative power to take

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action on a particular issue. However, councils must ensure that existing legislation does not limit them from using the well-being power.

Limitations of the Power in Wales

As with all powers, there are restrictions on the use of the Power of Well-being. These restrictions include using the well-being power to raise money, undertaking activities that other legislation prohibits or to duplicate the function of another statutory agency.

Scotland

In Scotland the Local Government in Scotland Act 2003 introduced the power of Advance Well-being for local authorities to do anything which advances the well-being of their areas, or the residents of those areas. The power includes:

− incurring expenditure; − giving financial assistance to any person; − entering into arrangements or agreements with any person; − co-operating with, or facilitating or co-ordinating the activities of, any person; − exercising on behalf of any person any functions of that person; and − providing staff, goods, materials, facilities, services or property to any person.

Limitations of the Power in Scotland

The guidance on the Power to Advance Well-being outlines a number of limitations on the use of the power. These include:

• does not enable a local authority to do anything which it is, by virtue of a limiting provision, unable to do. A 'limiting provision' is one which explicitly prohibits or explicitly prevents the local authority from doing anything or explicitly limits its powers in that respect, and is expressed in any enactment. • shall not be exercised in a way that unreasonably duplicates the legislative functions of another body.

• does not enable a local authority to do anything which may be done under the Local Authorities (Goods and Services) Act 1970.

• does not enable a local authority to raise money by levying any form of tax or charge. This does not however prevent a local authority from setting and determining amounts of council tax.

• does not allow local authorities to promote economic development outside the without the prior consent of the Scottish Ministers.

Case Studies

The following case studies highlight how the Power to Advance Well-being and General Power of Competence has been applied in Scotland and England.

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• Modern Housing Estate and Play Area at Dunfermline, Scotland

A modern housing estate was granted planning permission under the condition that a play area be installed. Unfortunately the developer built the housing but failed to install the play area. The residents requested action from the local authority but by the time the matter came to be addressed, the houses had all been built and the developer had sold any remaining interest in the estate.

There were clear enforcement powers under the planning legislation but, in terms of that legislation, enforcement action would have to be taken against the owners of the land - the very residents who were complaining about the lack of a play area in the first place. In this instance, the Power to Advance Well-being seemed to offer an attractive solution. The developer was advised that, if the play area was not installed voluntarily, then the Council would do so and recharge the developer. This resulted in action on the part of the developer and the play area is now being installed by agreement and at the developer's cost.

Source: The above case study is an extract from Fife Partnerships' A Guide to Community Planning in Fife - Power to Advance Well-Being, 2008

• Supporting local businesses - Newark and Sherwood Council, England

In Newark and Sherwood Council it had become clear that small businesses were struggling to access finance for future growth. In response the council set up a £2m fund to address the problem. The fund is managed by local people with business and financial experience who take individual lending decisions. Councillors set the lending policies and monitor the fund's performance. Since March 2013, the fund has made three loans with more to come.

• Helping to tackle poor attainment in primary schools – Oxford City Council, England

The General Power of Competence has given Oxford City Council the confidence to develop a school improvement support programme to raise attainment and assurance to statutory officers that it had the power to do so. The city council is thus making a contribution in an important service area. Major local employers were concerned that local young people did not have the skills they require. Consultation with schools identified that the root of the problem lay in under achievement in primary schools, especially in the most deprived areas of the city. Working with the two local universities, good local schools and a specialist education consultancy, the city council has put in place a programme of improvement support for schools. The programme has two main elements – leadership and teaching skills – and represents an investment of £1.6 million over four years.

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• Local Town Councils, England

Crewkerne Town Council has taken over the running of youth clubs previously provided by Somerset County Council, to be offered through a purpose build sports and community centre. The General Power of Competence enabled Crewkerne to fund the youth service.

Sprowston Town Council has acquired a former youth and community service building from Norfolk County Council which it is refurbishing to provide a multi-use community centre. Sprowston used other provisions in the Localism Act 2011 – the Community Right to Bid – to enable it to acquire the building from Norfolk County Council.

Source: The above case studies are extracts from the Local Government Association's 'The General Power of Competence - Empowering councils to make a difference, 2013.

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Section 3 – Reform of Local Government

Reform of Local Government

The reform of local government has been undertaken as part of the overall Review of Public Administration. The key elements of the reform process include a reduction in the number of councils from 26 to 11 (see map on page 17), the transfer of powers to local councils from central government, and the introduction of a new power of Community Planning and the General Power of Competence. The 11 new councils will come into operation in April 2015 and the total number of councillors will reduce from the current 582 to 462.

Local Government Boundaries

The Local Government (Boundaries) Order (Northern Ireland) 2012 was approved by the Assembly in June 2012. A Local Government Boundaries Commissioner was appointed to define and name the new councils and the wards within the new councils. The Commissioner released a Final Recommendations Report on 26 June 2009. See map on page 17 for new council boundaries.

The Order gives effect to the boundaries as outlined in the Commissioner's Final Recommendations Report, with two modifications agreed by the Executive. The two modifications are in respect of the boundary between the new local government district and the new / local government district, at Ballyhanwood (.pdf) and at Galwally (.pdf).

New Council Amalgamating Councils No. of Wards

Belfast Belfast (including parts of Castlereagh, Lisburn 60 and North Down)

Antrim and Newtownabbey and Newtownabbey 40

Armagh, and Armagh, Craigavon, Banbridge (including area 41 Craigavon of Dungannon and South Tyrone)

Causeway Coast and Glens , , Limavady and Moyle 40

Derry and Strabane and Strabane 40

Fermanagh and 40

Lisburn and Castlereagh (excluding those 40 areas transferring to Belfast)

Mid and East Antrim , and Carrickfergus 40

Mid Ulster , and Dungannon and 40 South Tyrone

Newry, Mourne and Down and Mourne, Down (including existing 41 Ballyward Ward from Banbridge)

North Down and 40

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Local Government Reform – Delivery Structures

The central aim of the reform of local government is “to provide high quality, efficient services which respond to the needs of local communities”. The following diagram and summary of the various committees and groups provide an overview of the delivery structures established to take forward the Reform of Local Government.

www.doeni.gov.uk/regional_delivery_structures.pdf

Regional Transition Committee - The Regional Transition Committee, chaired by the Environment Minister, provides “high level political leadership and acts as the driver for implementing local government reform”.

Regional Transition Operational Board - The Regional Transition Operational Board is chaired by the DOE Permanent Secretary. Its role is to support and advise the Regional Transition Committee and to coordinate the operational delivery of the reform programme.

Task and Finish Working Groups - Nine working groups have been established to undertake key areas of work including finance, legislation, transferring functions, pilot studies and community planning and will feed into the work of the Regional Transition Operational Board. Each working group includes representatives from central and local government and NILGA. The working groups are:

- Finance - Pilots and Community Planning - Delivery Programme - Communications

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- Transfer of Functions - Human Resources - Legislation - Systems Convergence - Local Government Reform Joint Forum

Statutory Transition Committees - The Statutory Transition Committees, previously known as voluntary Transition Committees, came into effect from 1 July 2013, after the necessary regulations were agreed in the Assembly. The Local Government (Statutory Transition Committees) Regulations (Northern Ireland) 2013 can be view by clicking on this link. The main roles of the Statutory Transition Committees will be to:

• prepare a draft budget for the new council; • prepare a draft corporate and business plan for the new council; and • appoint Chief Executive to the new council.

The Chair or joint Chairs are selected from those elected members appointed to the Statutory Transition Committee, with meetings held on a monthly or bimonthly basis.

Shadow Councils - Elections for the 11 shadow councils are to be held in May 2014. These shadow councils will have powers to make key decisions on appointing senior staff, setting rates and approving financial plans for the new councils in April 2015. During this period (June 2014 - April 2015) the shadow councils will operate alongside the existing councils, prior to replacing them in April 2015.

Transfer of Powers

The NI Executive has agreed the functions to transfer to the new councils in April 2015. The functions include:

• Planning - development control and enforcement and local development plan functions;

• Urban Regeneration and Community Development - environmental improvement schemes, area-based regeneration (Neighbourhood Renewal) and some community development programmes;

• Housing - registration of houses in multiple occupation and housing unfitness including repair and demolition notices;

• Local Economic Development activities;

• Local Tourism Initiatives;

• Delivery of EU Rural Development Programme;

• Off-Street Parking (except park-and-ride);

• Authority to draw up local lists of historical buildings.

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Funding Arrangements

A breakdown of the £13.8million funding package to support the establishment of eleven new councils includes:

• £5.2 million to support Shadow Councils; • £3.5 million to cover costs of Councillors’ Severance scheme; • £3 million to support capacity building; • £1 million for Change Management; • £600,000 towards Staff Induction; • £500,000 to cover costs of winding up of existing councils.

Additional funding has also been agreed to cover the estimated costs of Rates convergence (£30 million) and borrowing for ICT system convergence (£4 million).

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New Councils

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Overview of Statutory Transition Committees

Membership of the Statutory Transition Committees is made up of elected representatives from each of the merging councils, with support provided by council officials. A breakdown of the membership and main contact(s) for each of the eleven Statutory Transition Committees is provided on the following pages. (Please note: membership of the Statutory Transition Committees may change over time).

Antrim and Newtownabbey

Membership:

Antrim Newtownabbey

Ald Mervyn Rea UUP (Vice Chair) Cllr Robert Hill DUP (Chair) Cllr DUP Ald Fraser Agnew UUP Cllr Thomas Burns SDLP Ald DUP Cllr Adrian Cochrane-Watson UUP Cllr Mark Cosgrove UUP Cllr Brian Graham DUP Ald Victor Robinson DUP Cllr Henry Cushinan SF Cllr Jackie Mann DUP Cllr Annemarie Logue SF Ald John Blair ALL Cllr Alan Lawther ALL Cllr Billy Webb ALL

Contact: Jim McKenzie Helen Hall

Transition Manager Transition Manager

Antrim Borough Council Newtownabbey Borough Council

028 9446 3113 028 9034 0000

[email protected] [email protected]

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Armagh, Banbridge and Craigavon

Membership:

Armagh Banbridge Craigavon Cllr Jim Speers UUP (Chair) Cllr Paul Rankin DUP Cllr DUP (Vice Chair) Cllr Paul Berry IND Cllr Joan Baird UUP Cllr Alan Carson DUP Cllr William Irwin DUP Cllr Carol Black UUP Cllr Paul Duffy SF Cllr Roy McCartney SF Cllr Junior McCrum DUP Ald Arnold Hatch UUP Cllr Thomas O’Hanlon SDLP Cllr John Hanna UUP Cllr Gemma McKenna SF

Contact: Eamonn Kelly

Transition Manager Armagh City and District Council

028 3752 9600

Belfast

Membership:

Ald DUP (Chair) Cllr Steven Corr SF Cllr Jim McVeigh SF Cllr SF (Vice Chair) Cllr Tom Haire DUP Cllr Caoimhín Mac Giolla Mhín SF Ald David Browne UUP Cllr Máire Hendron ALL Cllr Kate Mullan SDLP Ald May Campbell DUP Cllr Mervyn Jones ALL Cllr Adam Newton DUP Cllr Tim Attwood SDLP Cllr John Kyle PUP Cllr Lee Reynolds DUP Cllr Arder Carson SF Cllr Gerard McCabe SF Cllr Guy Spence DUP Cllr Mary Clarke SF Cllr Patrick McCarthy SDLP Cllr Andrew Webb ALL

Lisburn Council Representatives Cllr Margaret Tolerton DUP Cllr John Drake SDLP Castlereagh Council Representatives Cllr Denny Vitty DUP Cllr Chris McGimpsey UUP

Contact: Kevin Heaney Transition Manager - 028 9027 0595 [email protected]

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Causeway Coast and Glens (Ballymoney, Coleraine, Limavady, Moyle)

Membership:

Ballymoney Coleraine

Cllr Philip McGuigan SF (Vice Chair) Ald DUP Cllr John Finlay DUP Ald Maura Hickey SDLP Ald Frank Campbell DUP Ald Norman Hillis UUP Ald Bill Kennedy DUP Cllr Sam Cole DUP Cllr Ian Stevenson DUP Cllr George Duddy DUP

Limavady Moyle

Cllr Michael Coyle SDLP Cllr Robert McIlroy DUP (Chair) Cllr Tony McCaul SF Cllr Colum Thompson SF Cllr James McCorkell DUP Cllr Joan Baird UUP Cllr Dermot Nicholl SF Cllr Cara McShane SF Cllr Brenda Chivers SF Cllr Donal Cunningham SDLP

Contact: Stephen McMaw Transition Manager Coleraine Borough Council 028 7034 7034 [email protected]

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Derry and Strabane

Membership:

Derry Strabane Cllr Paul Fleming SF (Vice Chair) Cllr Kieran McGuire SF (Chair) Ald DUP Cllr Karina Carlin SF Cllr Sean Carr SDLP Cllr Dan Kelly SF Cllr SDLP Cllr Jay McCauley SF Cllr Sean Gallagher SDLP Cllr Maoliosa McHugh SF Cllr Eric McGinley SF Cllr Brian McMahon SF Cllr Barney O'Hagan SF Cllr John Donnell DUP Cllr Brenda Stevenson SDLP Cllr Thomas Kerrigan DUP

Contact: Ellen Cavanagh Rachelle Craig Corporate Policy and Improvement Officer Corporate Policy Officer Strabane District Council 028 7136 5151 027138 2204 [email protected] [email protected]

Fermanagh and Omagh

Membership:

Fermanagh Omagh

Cllr Thomas O’Reilly SF (Vice Chair) Cllr Sean Begley SF (Chair) Cllr Alex Baird UUP Cllr Sean Clarke SF Cllr Rosemary Barton UUP Cllr Frankie Donnelly SF Cllr Brendan Gallagher SDLP Cllr Peter Kelly SF Cllr Stephen Huggett SF Cllr Allan Rainey UUP Cllr Ruth Lynch SF Cllr Errol Thompson DUP Cllr Brian McCafferty SF Cllr Martin McColgan SF Cllr Paul Robinson DUP Cllr Josephine Deehan SDLP

Contact: Kim McLaughlin 028 8224 5321 [email protected]

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Lisburn and Castlereagh

Membership:

Lisburn Castlereagh

Ald James Tinsley (Vice Chair) Ald Michael Henderson (Chair) Ald William Leathem Cllr Jimmy Spratt Ald Paul Porter Ald Jack Beattie Cllr Uel Mackin Cllr Jim White Cllr Charlene O'Hara Cllr Sharon Skillen Cllr Stephen Martin Cllr Myreve Chambers Ald Jim Dillon Ald Geraldine Rice Cllr Patrick Catney Cllr Tim Morrow

Contact: Ian Wilson Roy Lawther Transition Manager Transition Manager Castlereagh Borough Council 028 9250 9250 028 9049 4500 [email protected] [email protected]

Mid and East Antrim (Ballymena, Carrickfergus and Larne)

Membership:

Ballymena Carrickfergus Larne Cllr T. Nicholl DUP Ald Billy Ashe DUP Cllr Mark McKinty UUP (Vice Chair) (Chair) (Vice Chair) Ald T.M. Mills DUP Cllr Noel Williams ALL Ald Wilson Fulton DUP Cllr Hurbert Nicholl DUP Cllr Lynn McClurg DUP Cllr Maureen Morrow UUP Ald P.J. McAvoy SDLP Cllr John Stewart UUP Cllr Geraldine Mulvenna ALL Cllr James Currie UUP Ald May Beattie DUP Cllr Drew Niblock DUP

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Mid Ulster (Dungannon, Cookstown and Magherafelt)

Membership:

Dungannon Cookstown Magherafelt Cllr Padraig Quinn SF Cllr Trevor Wilson UUP (Vice Chair) Cllr Sean McPeake SF (Chair) Cllr Roger Burton DUP Cllr Sean Clarke SF Cllr Kate McEldowney SF Cllr Jim Cavanagh SDLP Cllr Pearse McAleer SF Cllr Brian McGuigan SF Cllr Walter Cuddy UUP Cllr Ian McCrea DUP Cllr Paul McLean DUP Cllr Sean McGuigan SF Cllr Tony Quinn SDLP Cllr Patricia Smith SF

Contact: Jennifer Hobson PA to Chief Executive Dungannon and South Tyrone Borough Council 028 8772 0343

Newry, Mourne and Down

Membership:

Newry and Mourne Down Cllr Michael Ruane SF (Vice Chair) Cllr Colin McGrath SDLP (Chair) Cllr Charlie Casey SF Cllr Stephen Burns SF Cllr William Burns DUP Cllr Dermot Curran SDLP Cllr Andy Moffett UUP Cllr William Dick DUP Cllr John Feehan SDLP Cllr Éamonn Mac Con Midhe SF Cllr Frank Feely SDLP Cllr Carmel O'Boyle SDLP Cllr Terry Hearty SF Cllr Eamonn O'Neill SDLP Cllr Jack Patterson IND Cllr Robert Burgess DUP

Contact: Johnny McBride Transition Manager Newry and Mourne District Council / Down District Down [email protected] 07958728151

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North Down and Ards

Membership:

North Down Ards

Ald Alan Graham DUP (Chair) Cllr Angus Carson UUP (Vice Chair) Cllr Wesley Irvine DUP Ald Robert Gibson DUP Cllr John Montgomery DUP Ald Colville Elliot DUP Cllr DUP Cllr Alan McDowell ALL Cllr Michael Bower ALL Ald Ronnie Ferguson UUP Ald Anne Wilson ALL Cllr Stephen McIlveen DUP Ald Ellie McKay UUP Cllr Trevor Cummings DUP Cllr Marion Smith UUP Cllr Mervyn Oswald DUP

Contact: Jayne Taylor Jeanette Wilson Senior Member Services Officer Senior Committee Administrator North Down Borough Council 02891 278068 (direct line) 028 9182 4000

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Section 4 – New Health Structures

New Health Structures

Modernisation of Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland

The following information gives a brief overview of the new Health structures. The Health and Social Care (Reform) Act (Northern Ireland) 2009 provides the necessary legislative framework within which the new Health and Social Care structures operate. For further information please visit the Department's website at http://www.dhsspsni.gov.uk/index/hss/rpa-home.htm

Public Health Agency Chief Executive: Dr Eddie Rooney Chairperson: Ms Mary McMahon

The Public Health Agency incorporates the work of the Health Promotion Agency, Investing for Health Partnerships and Health Action Zones, with additional responsibility for health protection, health improvement and development to address existing health inequalities and public health issues. The agency will also look at its relationship with local government, with particular consideration given to Community Planning.

Contact Details: Linenhall Street Unit 12-22 Linenhall Street Belfast BT2 8BS Tel: (028) 9032 1313

Business Services Organisation Chief Executive: Mr David Bingham Chairperson: Mr Alexander Coleman

The Business Services Organisation provides a range of administrative and support functions for the whole of the health and social care system including the work previously undertaken by the Central Services Agency.

Contact Details: Headquarters 2 Franklin Street Belfast BT2 8DQ Tel: (028) 9032 4431

Health and Social Care Board Chief Executive: Mr John Compton Chairperson: Dr Ian Clements

The Health and Social Care Board has replaced the existing four Health and Social Services Boards. The Board focuses on commissioning, resource management and performance management and improvement. A Regional Board member will attend the Local Commissioning Group meetings.

Contact Details: Headquarters 12–22 Linenhall Street Belfast BT2 8BS Tel: (028) 9032 1313

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Patient and Client Council Chief Executive: Ms Maeve Hully Chairperson: Dr Maureen Edmondson

The Patient and Client Council replaced the Health and Social Services Councils with five local offices operating in the same geographical areas as the existing Trusts, to provide a strong voice for patients, clients and carers.

Contact Details: Freephone: 0800 917 0222 Email: [email protected]

Local Commissioning Groups

The five Local Commissioning Groups (LCG) established include the Belfast, South Eastern, Southern, Western and Northern Local Commissioning Groups and are co- terminus with the Health and Social Care Trust in that particular area (see map below). Local Commissioning Groups were set up to actively engage General Practitioners, other primary care professionals and the voluntary and community sector in the planning and redesign of services to secure better services for the communities they serve.

Membership of the Local Commissioning Groups include:

- 4 General Medical Practitioners; - 1 Pharmacist; - 1 Dentist; - 2 Health and Social Care related Voluntary Sector Representatives. - 4 Elected Local Representatives; - 2 Social Care Professionals; - 1 Nurse; - 1 Public Health Medicine Professional; - 1 Allied Health Professional;

Northern LCG

Belfast LCG Western LCG

South Eastern LCG

Southern LCG

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Local Commissioning Groups – Commissioning Leads

Belfast LCG Northern LCG

Iain Deboys Bride Harkin Health and Social Care Board Health and Social Care Board Eastern Office Northern Office 12-22 Linenhall Street County Hall Belfast BT2 8BS 182 Galgorm Road Ballymena BT42 1QB Tel: (028) 9032 1313 Email: [email protected] Tel: (028) 2531 1190 Email: [email protected]

South Eastern LCG Southern LCG

Paul Turley Lyn Donnelly Health and Social Care Board Health and Social Care Board Eastern Office Southern Office 12-22 Linenhall Street Tower Hill Belfast BT2 8BS Armagh BT61 9DR

Tel: (028) 9032 1313 Tel: (028) 3741 4600 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Western LCG

Paul Cavanagh Health and Social Care Board Western Office Gransha Park House 15 Clooney Road, Derry Londonderry BT47 6FN

Tel: (028) 7186 0086 Email: [email protected]

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Section 4 – New Health Structures

Health and Social Care Trusts

In April 2007, the 18 Health and Social Service Trusts merged to form five new Health and Social Care Trusts, together with the Ambulance Service Trust. A map of the five Health and Social Care Trusts can be viewed on page 29. The Trusts are:

- Belfast Health and Social Care Trust; - South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust; - Southern Health and Social Care Trust; - Western Health and Social Care Trust; - Northern Health and Social Care Trust; and - Northern Ireland Ambulance Service Trust.

Additional Reform Decisions

Additional decisions taken as part of the Modernisation of Health and Social Care in Northern Ireland include:

• NI Regional Medical Physics Agency has transferred to the Belfast Health and Social Care Trust;

• functions of the Mental Health Commission have transferred to the Regulation and Quality Improvement Authority (RQIA);

• NI Practice and Educational Council, NI Medical and Dental Training Agency, NI Guardian Ad Litem Agency, NI Social Care Council, Health Estates Agency and the Northern Ireland Blood Transfusion Service remain unchanged.

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New Health and Social Care Trusts

Key:

1. Western Health and Social Care Trust 2. Northern Health and Social Care Trust 3. Southern Health and Social Care Trust 4. South Eastern Health and Social Care Trust 5. Belfast Health and Social Care Trust

The sixth Trust is the Ambulance Service Health and Social Care Trust, which provides statutory ambulance services throughout the Region.

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New Health and Social Care Trusts

Amalgamation of Existing Health and Social Services Trusts

New Health and Old Trusts Social Care Trust The Western • Sperrin Lakeland Trust Area Trust • Foyle Health Social Services Trust • Altnagelvin Health and Social Services Trust This would include the current local government districts of Derry, Fermanagh, Limavady, Omagh and Strabane. The Northern • Homefirst Community Trust Area Trust • Causeway Health and Social Services Trust • United Hospitals Health and Social Services Trusts This would include the current local government districts of Antrim, Ballymoney, Ballymena, Carrickfergus, Coleraine, Cookstown, Larne, Magherafelt, Moyle and Newtownabbey. The Southern • Craigavon Area Hospital Group Area Trust • Craigavon and Banbridge Community Trust • Newry and Mourne Health and Social Services Trust • Armagh and Dungannon Health and Social Services Trust This would include the current local government districts of Armagh, Banbridge, Craigavon, Dungannon and Newry and Mourne. The South Eastern • Ulster Community and Hospitals Trust Area Trust • Down/Lisburn Trust This will include the current local government districts of Ards, North Down, Down and Lisburn. The Belfast Trust • Belfast City Hospital • Royal Group of Hospitals • Mater Hospital • Greenpark Health Care Trust • North and West Belfast Trust (including Muckamore Hospital) • South and East Belfast Health and Social Services Trust This would include the current local government districts of Belfast and Castlereagh.

(In developing the new management and governance structures for the new Belfast Area Trust, consideration will be given to the special status of the Mater Hospital, as stipulated in its Deed of Arrangement).

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Health and Social Care Trusts

Main Contacts

Belfast Health and Social Care Trust Northern Health and Social Care Trust

Chief Executive: Colm Donaghy Senior Executives: Mary Hinds Paul Cummings Trust HQ A Floor Trust HQ Belfast City Hospital The Cottage Lisburn Road 5 Greenmount Avenue Belfast BT9 7AB Ballymena BT43 6DA

Tel: (028) 9504 0100 Tel: 028 9446 5211 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

South Eastern Health and Social Care Southern Health and Social Care Trust Trust Chief Executive: Mairead McAlinden Chief Executive: Hugh McCaughey Southern Area College of Nursing Ulster Hospital Craigavon Area Hospital Upper Road 68 Road Dundonald BT63 5QQ Belfast BT16 1RH Tel: 028 3833 4444 Tel: 028 9055 3100 Fax: 028 3833 5496 Email: [email protected] Email: [email protected]

Western Health and Social Care Trust Northern Ireland Ambulance Service - Health and Social Care Trust Chief Executive: Elaine Way Chief Executive: Liam McIvor Trust HQ MDEC Building Ambulance Headquarters Altnagelvin Area Hospital Site Site 30 Glenshane Road Knockbracken Healthcare Park Derry Londonderry BT47 6SB Saintfield Road Belfast BT8 8SG Tel: 028 7134 5171 Tel: 028 9040 0999 Fax: 028 9040 0900 Email: [email protected]

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Section 5 – New Education Structures

New Education Structures

The Review of Public Administration (RPA) in Education aims to be the most influential reform in a generation. The proposed restructuring will transform administration, improve standards, promote equality and enable more resources to be available for schools, therefore benefiting our children and young people.

The Department of Education will be responsible for:

• establishing the strategic direction for education; • setting policy, priorities and standards for schools and youth services; • allocating and monitoring resources; and • ensuring the efficient and effective delivery of services by a new Education and Skills Authority.

Education and Skills Authority

The purpose of education reform is to improve outcomes for all young people in education and to ensure equality of access to quality education provision. It also aims to streamline education administration to ensure that much needed resources can be directed to supporting front line services.

The creation of a single Education and Skills Authority (ESA) through the Education Bill will help reduce bureaucracy in the management of our education system by reducing duplication and streamlining management structures.

ESA will be the single authority for the administration of education, subsuming the functions, assets and liabilities of the five Education and Library Boards (ELBs), the Council for Catholic Maintained Schools (CCMS), the Staff Commission and the Youth Council. Further consideration is being given to the future of the Council for Curriculum, Examinations and Assessment (CCEA) and the Inspectorate including the option of some or all of their functions remaining in separate bodies.

The Department of Education will continue to be the policy making body while ESA’s focus will be on management and service delivery. Its key functions will include raising standards and area planning, and it is to be the single authority for those functions.

Education Bill

The Education Bill was introduced to the Assembly in October 2012. The Education Committee completed its scrutiny stage of the Bill in April 2013 and the Equality Screening of the Education Bill was completed in June 2013. To view the latest updates on the Education Bill click on the following link: http://www.niassembly.gov.uk/Assembly-Business/Legislation/Primary-Legislation- Current-Bills/Education-Bill/

For more information on the Modernisation of the Education Sector visit the Department of Education's website at www.deni.gov.uk

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Section 6 – Special Programmes

Special Programmes

Neighbourhood Renewal Areas

Key:

1 Outer North 13 Lurgan 25 Upper Springfield/Whiterock 2 Outer West 14 Newry 26 South West Belfast 3 Triax 15 Downpatrick 27 Falls/Clonard 4 Waterside 16 Bangor 28 Inner South Belfast 5 Strabane 17 Ballyclare 29 Tullycarnet 6 Omagh 18 Ballymena 30 Inner East Belfast 7 19 Churchlands 31 Inner North Belfast 8 Dungannon 20 Coleraine East 32 Crumlin/Ardoyne 9 Coalisland 21 Limavady 33 Upper Ardoyne/Ballysillan 10 Armagh 22 Colin 34 Ligoniel 11 Portadown 23 Outer West Belfast 35 Greater Shankill 12 Brownlow 24 36 Rathcoole

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Section 6 – Special Programmes

Council Clusters for Peace III

1 Coleraine 2 Derry 3 Magherafelt Ballymoney Omagh Cookstown Larne Strabane Dungannon Ballymena Fermanagh Moyle Limavady

4 Newry and Mourne 5 North Down 6 Lisburn Armagh Ards Castlereagh Craigavon Down Banbridge

7 Belfast 8 Newtownabbey Carrickfergus Antrim

Lead Council in each Cluster is highlighted in Bold

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Section 6 – Special Programmes

Contacts – Peace III Partnerships

Partnership Councils Main Contact details Telephone / Email Address North East Coleraine Patricia McCallion Tel: 028 7034 7012 Larne Coleraine Borough Council Ballymena Cloonavin [email protected] Moyle 66 Portstewart Road Ballymoney Coleraine BT52 1EY Limavady North West Derry Rosalind Young Tel: 028 7130 8466 Omagh Derry City Council Strabane 98 Strand Road [email protected] Derry BT48 7NN South West Magherafelt Chris McCarney Tel: 028 7939 7979 Cookstown Magherafelt District Council Dungannon 50 Ballyronan Road [email protected] Fermanagh Magherafelt BT45 6EN Southern Newry and Sonya Burns Tel: 028 3031 3074 Mourne Newry and Mourne District Banbridge Council [email protected] Armagh 9 Monaghan Court Craigavon Monaghan Street Newry BT35 8DJ North Down North Down Debbie McKinney Tel: 028 9127 8028 Ards and Ards North Down Borough Council Down Down Town Hall [email protected] The Castle BT20 4BT Lisburn- Lisburn Alistair Charles Tel: 028 9250 9550 Castlereagh Castlereagh Lisburn City Council Island Civic Centre [email protected] The Island Lisburn BT27 4RL Belfast Belfast Good Relations Unit Tel: 028 9027 0663 Belfast City Council Chief Executive's Department [email protected] Belfast City Council City Hall Belfast BT1 5GS CAN Carrickfergus Alison Keenan Tel: 028 9034 0212 Antrim Newtownabbey Borough Newtownabbey Council [email protected] Mossley Mill Newtownabbey BT36 5QA

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Rural Development Programme 2007-2013

i Ballymena ii Antrim iii Lisburn Ballymoney Newtownabbey Belfast Larne Carrickfergus Castlereagh Coleraine Moyle iv Ards v Armagh vi Cookstown North Down Craigavon Magherafelt Down Newry and Mourne Dungannon Banbridge Fermanagh vii Omagh Strabane Derry Limavady

Lead Council in each Cluster is highlighted in Bold

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Contacts – Rural Development Programme 2007 – 2013

Council Clusters

Partnership Councils Main Contact Details Telephone / Email / Website Address North East Ballymena Andrew McAlister Tel: 028 2563 8263 Region Ballymoney Ballymena Borough Council [email protected] Larne Ecos Centre www.northeastrdp.com Coleraine Kernohan’s Lane Ballymena BT43 7QA Moyle Grow South Antrim Emma Stubbs Tel: 028 9448 1311 Antrim Newtownabbey [email protected] Carrickfergus Antrim Civic Centre www.growsouthantrim.com 50 Stiles Way Antrim BT41 2UB Lagan Rural Lisburn Padraic Murphy Tel: 028 9250 9489 Partnership Belfast Lisburn City Council [email protected] Castlereagh Island Civic Centre The Island www.laganruralpartnership.com Lisburn BT27 4RL DRAP Ards Marguerite Osborne Tel: 028 91820748 North Down Ards Business Centre [email protected] Down Sketrick House www.downruralareapartnership.com Banbridge Jubilee Road Newtownards BT23 4YH SOAR Craigavon Elaine Cullen Tel. 028 3831 2573 Armagh Craigavon Borough Council [email protected] Newry and Civic Centre www.soarni.org Mourne Lakeview Road Craigavon BT64 1AL SWARD Cookstown Drew Robinson Tel: 028 8676 4714 Magherafelt Cookstown District Council [email protected] Dungannon Gortalowry House www.sward.org.uk Fermanagh 94 Church Street Cookstown BT80 8HX ARC North Omagh Katy Turnbull Tel: 028 8225 0202 West Strabane Omagh District Council [email protected] Derry The Grange Limavady Mountjoy Road www.arcnorthwest.com Omagh BT79 7BL

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Section 7 – Sub Regional Community Networks

Sub Regional Community Networks

Community Development Networks Forum

The Community Development Networks Forum was set up in 2002 as the support mechanism for Sub-regional and Urban Networks.

The main objectives of the Forum are:

• to act as a support mechanism for community development networks; • to act as a platform for the sharing of information; • to organise events as and when necessary; • to represent the views of the membership; • to highlight issues affecting the wider community sector; • to lobby for long term core funding from central government.

The Forum currently has eleven member Networks, based throughout the region. The member Networks are:

- Ards Development Bureau and Community Network - Ballymoney Community Resource Centre - Carrickfergus Community Forum - Causeway Rural and Urban Network - ABC Community Network - Confederation of Community Groups Newry and Mourne - East Belfast Community Development Agency - FOCUS - North Down Community Network - North West Community Network

If you would like more information on the Community Development Networks Forum, please contact Cathy Rice, Forum Chairperson on 028 9181 4625 or by email at [email protected]

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Section 7 – Sub Regional Community Networks

Community Development Networks Forum

Map

1. North Down Community Network

2. Ards Community Network

3. ABC Community Network

4. Confederation of Community Groups Newry and Mourne

5. FOCUS

6. North West Community Network

7. Causeway Rural and Urban Network

8. Ballymoney Community Resource Centre

9. Carrickfergus Community Forum

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Section 7 – Sub Regional Community Networks

Organisation Name Address Telephone/Email North Down Louise Little North Down Community Resource Tel: 028 9146 1386 Community Network Centre 5 Castle Park Road, [email protected] Bangor BT20 4TF northdowncommunitynetwork.wordpress.com Ards Community Network Cathy Rice 43-45 Frances Street Tel: 028 9181 4625 Newtownards BT23 7DX [email protected] ardscommunitynetwork.com ABC Community Network John McGuinness 22 Church Street Tel: 028 3839 2777 Portadown BT62 3LQ [email protected] www.abccommunitynetwork.com Confederation of Community Raymond Jackson Ballybot House, Tel: 028 3026 1022 Groups Newry and Mourne 28 Cornmarket [email protected] Newry BT35 8GB www.ccgnewrycommunity.org Forum in Omagh for Conor Keys 2 Drumragh Avenue Tel: 028 8224 0991 Community Understanding Omagh BT78 1DP [email protected] and Support (FOCUS) www.focuscommunity.co.uk North West Community Colin Devine 12-14 The Diamond Tel: 028 7127 9090 Network Derry~Londonderry BT48 6HW [email protected] www.nwcn.org Causeway Rural and Urban Ann McNickle 1st Floor, Tel: 028 7034 4934 Network 1-5 Stable Lane, [email protected] Coleraine BT52 1DQ www.crun.org Ballymoney Community Lyn Moffett Unit 22-23 Acorn Business Centre Tel : 028 2766 5068 Resource Centre 2 Riada Avenue [email protected] Ballymoney BT53 7LH www.ballymoneycrc.org.uk Carrickfergus Community Billy Ashe Miskimmon Suite, Old Town Hall Tel: 028 9335 9777 Forum Antrim Street [email protected] Carrickfergus BT38 7DG www.carrickferguscommunityforum.co.uk Supporting Communities in Community Planning 41

Section 7 – Sub Regional Community Networks

Rural Support Networks

The nine Local Rural Support Networks (RSNs) are a strong and unique rural infrastructure which provides support to communities in all rural areas of Northern Ireland.

The Local Networks draw members who are largely rural and cover a wide range of community and voluntary sector organisations in their area of remit including: community groups, social economy, play groups, farmers, women, youth, disability and older people etc.

Covering all of rural Northern Ireland, the RSNs have been recognised as an example of good practice and an essential conduit between rural communities and statutory bodies – providing communities with access to the decision making process, and decision makers with a means of tapping into the expert local knowledge on the ground.

Each Rural Support Network is independent and therefore directly accountable to, and fully representative of, the communities they serve.

We are membership based and our Management Boards are elected each year at AGM from our member groups. Our primary aim is to support local groups and organisations to achieve what they want for their community.

The nine Rural Support Networks are:

- Community Organisations of South Tyrone and Area - Cookstown and Western Shores Area Network - Down Rural Community Network - Fermanagh Rural Community Network - North Antrim Community Network - Omagh Forum - Rural North West Community Support - South Antrim Community Network - TADA Rural Support Network

The geographical areas covered by the Rural Support Networks can be viewed on the map overleaf.

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Section 7 – Sub Regional Community Networks

Organisation Name Address Telephone/Email Community Organisations of Lorraine Griffin President Grant's Homestead Tel: 028 8555 6880 South Tyrone and Area 45 Derenagh Road [email protected] (COSTA) Dungannon BT70 1TW www.costaruralsupportnetwork.org Cookstown and Western Conor Corr The Crieve Centre Tel: 028 8773 8845 Shores Area Network (CWSAN) 2 Hillhead [email protected] Stewartstown BT71 5HY County Down Rural Community Nicholas McCrickard Ballymote Centre Tel: 028 4461 2311 Network (CDRCN) 40 Killough Road [email protected] Downpatrick BT30 6PY www.countydownruralcommunitynetwork.com Fermanagh Rural Community Barry Boyle The Intec Centre Tel: 028 6632 7006 Network (FRCN) 36 East Bridge Street [email protected] Enniskillen BT74 6AJ www.fermanaghrcn.org North Antrim Community Breige Conway Old School House Tel: 028 2177 2100 Network (NACN) Mill Street [email protected] Cushendall BT44 0RR www.nacn.org Omagh Forum for Rural Mary T Conway/ 2 Drumragh Avenue Tel: 028 8225 1559 Associations (OFRA) Aidan Bunting Omagh BT78 1DP [email protected] Rural North West Community Paula Buchanan 23 Main Street Tel: 028 8166 2588 Support (RNWCS) Newtownstewart BT78 4AD [email protected] www.strabaneanddistrictcommunitynetwork.co.uk/ South Antrim Community Wendy Kerr Unit 6/7 The Arches Tel: 028 9447 8645 Network (SACN) 38-40 Main Street [email protected] Randalstown BT41 3AB www.southantrimcommunitynetwork.org The Armagh Down Antrim Ruth Cranston Unit 10a Tel: 028 3839 8888 Network (TADA) Carn Business Park [email protected] Portadown BT63 5WG www.tadarsn.com

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Section 8 – Northern Ireland Assembly

Northern Ireland Assembly

The Northern Ireland Assembly is the devolved government of Northern Ireland. It is responsible for making and enacting laws on transferred matters in Northern Ireland including housing, environment and education. The Assembly sits at Parliament Buildings, Stormont Estate, in Belfast. Members (MLAs) meet to debate issues and introduce laws to support the people of Northern Ireland.

The Assembly gives executive power to an Executive Committee which makes many of the Assembly’s day-to-day decisions. This committee is made up of the First Minister and deputy First Minister along with a minister for each of the 11 government departments. Two Junior Ministers assist the First and deputy First Ministers. The Executive Committee meets to discuss and agree on issues which cut across the responsibilities of two or more Ministers.

Northern Ireland Executive

Minister Department Party Constituency Peter Robinson First Minister - OFMDFM DUP Belfast East

Martin McGuinness Deputy First Minister - OFMDFM SF Mid Ulster

Jonathan Bell Junior Minister - OFMDFM DUP Strangford

Martina Anderson Junior Minister - OFMDFM SF Foyle

Michelle O’Neill Agriculture and Rural Development SF Mid Ulster

Carál Ní Chuilín Culture, Arts and Leisure SF Belfast North

John O’Dowd Education SF Upper Bann

Dr Employment and Learning ALL North Down

Arlene Foster Enterprise, Trade and Investment DUP Fermanagh and South Tyrone

Mark H Durkan Environment SDLP Foyle

Simon Hamilton Finance and Personnel DUP Strangford

Edwin Poots Health, Social Services and Public Safety DUP Lagan Valley

David Ford Justice ALL South Antrim

Danny Kennedy Regional Development UUP Newry and Armagh

Nelson McCausland Social Development DUP Belfast North

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Section 8 – Northern Ireland Assembly

Committees

The Assembly also has 12 statutory committees which oversee the work of their respective department. The committees are comprised of MLA's and are support by NI Assembly staff. An overview of the Committees including the membership and main contact for each committee is included. Please note that membership of the committees is subject to change and it is therefore important to refer to the Northern Ireland Assembly website for up-to-date information.

Agriculture and Rural Development Committee

Member Party Constituency (Chair) DUP North Antrim Joe Byrne (Deputy Chair) SDLP West Tyrone Thomas Buchanan DUP West Tyrone Michelle McIlveen DUP Strangford Jo-Anne Dobson UUP Upper Bann William Irwin DUP Newry and Armagh Declan McAleer SF West Tyrone Kieran McCarthy ALL Strangford Oliver McMullan SF East Antrim Ian Milne SF Mid Ulster Robin Swann UUP North Antrim

Committee Clerk Stella McArdle 028 9052 1475 [email protected]

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Section 8 – Northern Ireland Assembly

Committee for the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister

Member Party Constituency (Chair) UUP Strangford Chris Lyttle (Deputy Chair) ALL East Belfast Leslie Cree MBE UUP North Down SDLP Foyle SF Newry and Armagh Brenda Hale DUP Lagan Valley SF South Belfast Bronwyn McGahan SF Fermanagh and South Tyrone Stephen Moutray DUP Upper Bann George Robinson SUP East Londonderry Jimmy Spratt DUP South Belfast

Committee Clerk Shauna Mageean 028 9052 0379 [email protected]

Culture, Arts and Leisure Committee

Member Party Constituency Michelle McIlveen (Chair) DUP Strangford William Irwin (Deputy Chair) ALL Newry and Armagh Dominic Bradley SDLP Newry and Armagh DUP East Antrim William Humphrey DUP North Belfast Rosaleen McCorley SF West Belfast Basil McCrea NI21 Lagan Valley Michael McGimpsey UUP South Belfast Karen McKevitt SDLP South Down Oliver McMullan SF East Antrim Cathal Ó hOisín SF East Londonderry

Committee Clerk Peter Hall 028 9052 1718 [email protected]

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Section 8 – Northern Ireland Assembly

Education Committee

Member Party Constituency (Chair) DUP North Antrim Danny Kinahan (Deputy Chair) UUP South Antrim Michaela Boyle SF West Tyrone DUP Lagan Valley Jo-Anne Dobson UUP Upper Bann Stephen Moutray DUP Upper Bann SF South Down Trevor Lunn ALL Lagan Valley DUP East Belfast Sean Rogers SDLP South Down Pat Sheehan SF West Belfast

Committee Clerk Peter McCallion (028) 9052 1821 [email protected]

Employment and Learning Committee

Member Party Constituency Robin Swann (Chair) UUP North Antrim Tom Buchanan (Deputy Chair) DUP West Tyrone David McClarty IND East Londonderry Sammy Douglas DUP East Belfast Phil Flanagan SF Fermanagh and South Tyrone David Hilditch DUP East Antrim Chris Lyttle ALL East Belfast Fra McCann SF West Belfast Bronwyn McGahan SF Fermanagh and South Tyrone Pat Ramsey SDLP Foyle Alastair Ross DUP East Antrim

Committee Clerk Cathie White 028 9052 1448 [email protected]

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Section 8 – Northern Ireland Assembly

Enterprise, Trade and Investment Committee

Member Party Constituency Patsy McGlone (Chair) SDLP Mid UIster Phil Flanagan (Deputy Chair) SF Fermanagh and South Tyrone Steven Agnew GREEN North Down DUP North Down Paul Frew DUP North Antrim SDLP North Belfast Meave McLaughlin SF Foyle Sydney Anderson DUP Upper Bann Sammy Douglas DUP East Belfast Sandra Overend UUP Mid Ulster Sue Ramsey SF West Belfast

Committee Clerk Jim McManus 028 9052 1230 [email protected]

Environment Committee

Member Party Constituency Anna Lo MBE (Chair) ALL South Belfast Pam Brown (Deputy Chair) DUP South Antrim Ian McCrea DUP Mid Ulster SF Newry and Armagh Colum Eastwood SDLP Foyle UUP Fermanagh and South Tyrone Alban Maginness SDLP North Belfast Barry McElduff SF West Tyrone Ian Milne SF Mid Ulster Lord Morrow DUP Fermanagh and South Tyrone Peter Weir DUP North Down

Committee Clerk Sheila Mawhinney Tel: (028) 90521783 [email protected]

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Section 8 – Northern Ireland Assembly

Finance and Personnel Committee

Member Party Constituency Daithí McKay (Chair) SF North Antrim Dominic Bradley (Deputy Chair) SDLP Newry and Armagh Judith Cochrane ALL East Belfast Leslie Cree UUP North Down Megan Fearon SF Newry and Armagh Paul Girvan DUP South Antrim John McCallister NI21 South Down Ian McCrea DUP Mid Ulster Mitchell McLaughlin SF South Antrim Adrian McQuillan DUP East Londonderry Peter Weir DUP North Down

Committee Clerk Shane McAteer 028 9052 1843 [email protected]

Health, Social Services and Public Safety Committee

Member Party Constituency Sue Ramsey (Chair) SF West Belfast Jim Wells (Deputy Chair) DUP South Down Roy Beggs UUP East Antrim David McIlveen DUP North Antrim SF Newry & Armagh Pam Brown SUP South Antrim Gordon Dunne DUP North Down Samuel Gardiner UUP Upper Bann Kieran McCarthy ALL Strangford Conall McDevitt SDLP South Belfast Maeve McLaughlin SF Foyle

Committee Clerk Dr. Kathryn Bell 028 9052 1841 [email protected]

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Section 8 – Northern Ireland Assembly

Committee for Justice

Member Party Constituency Paul Girvan (Chair) DUP Lagan Valley Raymond McCartney (Deputy Chair) SF Foyle Stewart Dickson ALL East Antrim Sydney Anderson DUP Upper Bann Tom Elliott UUP Fermanagh & South Tyrone William Humphrey DUP North Belfast Seán Lynch SF Fermanagh and South Tyrone Alban Maginness SDLP North Belfast Rosaleen McCorley SF West Belfast Patsy McGlone SDLP Mid Ulster Jim Wells DUP South Down

Committee Clerk Christine Darrah 028 9052 1629 [email protected]

Regional Development Committee

Member Party Constituency Jimmy Spratt (Chair) DUP South Belfast Seán Lynch (Deputy Chair) SF Fermanagh and South Tyrone SDLP East Londonderry Stewart Dickson ALL East Antrim DUP North Down UUP West Tyrone SDLP Upper Bann Declan McAleer SF West Tyrone Brenda Hale DUP Lagan Valley David McNarry UKIND Upper Bann Cathal Ó hOisín SF East Londonderry

Committee Clerk Paul Carlisle 028 9052 1063 [email protected]

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Section 8 – Northern Ireland Assembly

Social Development Committee

Member Party Constituency Alex Maskey (Chair) SF South Belfast Mickey Brady (Deputy Chair) SF Newry and Armagh DUP North Belfast Trevor Clarke DUP South Antrim Gregory Campbell DUP East Londonderry Judith Cochrane ALL East Belfast Michael Copeland UUP East Belfast Sammy Wilson DUP East Antrim Mark H Durkan SDLP Foyle Fra McCann SF West Belfast TUV North Antrim

Committee Clerk Dr. Kevin Pelan 028 9052 1864 [email protected]

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Section 9 – Supporting Communities in Community Planning

Community Planning Briefing Newssheets

Please click on the Newssheet below to view our Community Planning Briefing Newssheets.

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Section 10 – Community Places

Community Places

• provides advice on planning issues for community groups and individuals;

• supports community involvement in Community Planning;

• facilitates community consultation and research; and

• provides advice to community building projects.

We work with urban and rural community and voluntary groups across the region in support of their work to influence and shape the planning and development of their communities. We also independently facilitate public and community consultation on planning and public services issues. All of our work is underpinned by our commitment to inclusion, targeting need, equality, and equity. Much of our advice and support for groups is free. Where we need to charge a fee we only do so when funding is available and agree this with groups in advance.

The organisation was established in 1984 (under its previous name Community Technical Aid). It is managed by a voluntary Board of Directors who are elected annually from our membership. We currently have a membership of over 250 community and voluntary groups and networks from across the region. Membership is also open to individuals who support our aims and objectives. The organisation currently employs seven staff to provide our services to groups and individuals.

For advice and information telephone 9023 9444, email [email protected] or write to:

Community Places 2 Downshire Place Great Victoria Street BELFAST BT2 7JQ

www.communityplaces.info

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