Membership

Membership of each Community Partnership will be open to all people living or working, or organisations operating, within the boundary of the Community Partnership.

Annually, each Community Partnership will appoint a Steering Group of around 12 people (dependant on the population served by the Community Partnership).  The precise composition of the Group will be agreed at this stage by the Community Partnership.  The Steering Group will act as the core membership of the Community Partnership.

Ward Councillors and Neighbourhood Beat Managers will be members of the Steering Group.  Where more than one ward is included within a Community Partnership, all of the appropriate Ward Councillors and Neighbourhood Beat Managers will be members of the Steering Group.

Nominations for representatives to sit on the Steering Group will be sought from local schools and colleges, community and voluntary groups, trade organisations and residents’ associations.

Stakeholders of the Torbay Strategic Partnership will, when appropriate, be invited to send representatives to meetings of each Community Partnership.  These include Torbay Council, Devon and Cornwall Police, Torbay Care Trust, South Devon Healthcare NHS Trust and South Devon College.  These representatives may be in addition to any representatives of these organisations who sit on the Steering Group.

The statutory bodies will endeavour to meet reasonable requests for officers to attend meetings of the Community Partnerships to assist in the discussions.