How are community priorities decided?
The Neighbourhood Team will use the PACT process to engage with the community and identify issues of concern to them. This may identify more issues than can immediately be worked on. There may be direct conflict between some of the issues raised. Some issues may be simply resolved and this will be done rather than including them as long term priorities. Some issues may be so broad or unrealistic that there is little prospect of them being dealt with , but work on a more tightly defined problem could be appropriate. There will be a local process to deal with these complexities and identify three priorities that are clearly defined, representative of the communities concerns and capable of being achieved. This may be a public meeting or it may be a smaller meeting at which the police, partner agencies and community representatives are present. This meeting will agree the priorities and who will do what to address them.
