Examples of participation principles

The Participation Cymru Advisory Panel is hosting an open meeting to discuss the possibility of developing a set of national principles for public engagement for public service providers. This will be held at 2pm on 22 February in WCVA’s head office in Baltic House and with video conferencing to its North Wales office in Rhyl. Although the meeting in Cardiff is now full, there are still places available in Rhyl. It is open to any one within the Public and Third sectors who are interested in this work.

As varied pieces of work have already been carried out in this field, the purpose of this initial meeting is to collate and evaluate existing material before we begin. The materials submitted to Participation Cymru as exemplar documents can be downloaded below.

• National standards for community engagement (Communities Scotland and the Scottish Executive)
• Participation standards for children and young people (Participation Unit)

• Citizen and community engagement in Powys - a resource pack (Powys Carnegie Action Research project) (228k)
• Citizen-centred governance principles for Wales (Welsh Assembly Government) (1321k)
• Community Calculator (Age Concern Cymru and Help the Aged in Wales) (1160k)
• Guidelines for the effective consultation and participation of young people (Torfaen County Borough Council) (178k)
• Key messages of customer service and public engagement - the citizens’ voice (Welsh Assembly Government) (48k)
• Participation – the next generation (TPAS Cymru) (502k)
• Principles for engaged public services (Welsh Assembly Government) (37k)
• Service user and carer participation strategy (Care Council for Wales) (305k)
• Standards for citizen engagement (Wrexham Local Service Board) (23k)
• Tenant participation quality assessment review framework (TPAS Cymru) (79k)