Bath & North East Somerset Council has updated its draft Advice & Information strategy following feedback from local organisations and individuals.
The updated, draft strategy can be found on the Council’s website and local people and organisations are being encouraged to make further comment on it before 15th August.
The draft strategy was originally consulted on during December 2013 and January 2014. Following extensive feedback the Council has made a number of changes – these include a commitment to involving advice providers and other interested groups more in planning how to deliver services, as well as making it simpler in layout and language.
Cllr Simon Allen, Bath & North East Somerset Council’s Cabinet Member for Wellbeing (LibDem, Radstock), said: “We want to work with all the different organisations that provide much needed advice and information in the Bath and North East Somerset area to plan services that benefit local residents.”
Following this second opportunity to comment on the draft strategy, it will go to the Council’s Cabinet meeting in September.
After this the Council plans to work with a partnership group on detailed plans to deliver the strategy.
Commenting further, Cllr David Bellotti, Bath and North East Somerset Cabinet Member for Resources (LibDem, Lyncombe) said: “The aim of this strategy is to ensure the Council meets its statutory duties towards key groups and that crucial advice and information is available to the people who need it.
“It aims to make clearer where people can go to find the right advice and guidance.”
You can find the strategy and online consultation here www.bathnes.gov.uk/advice-information-strategy-consultation.
If you would need a printed copy please call Ann Robins on 01228 396288 or email [email protected]
