Resident Participation Framework

Newham Council wants to put residents at the heart of decision making at the council to help us to make better informed decisions. One of the ways we do this is by improving the quality of activities residents participate in and the experiences Newham residents have when they participate. 

We are at the start of this journey and would love to get your views & ideas to help shape the principles for this work and what the result of this work looks like for residents. You will help establish a set of mutual expectations for when residents participate in council activities, so that you and other residents can have a better experience in getting involved.

We will also work with local organisations to get case studies of innovative practice on how best to involve residents in activities that we can learn from. You may also be running community activities yourself and want to share good practice. We then want to involve people in developing a collective of people who work together to improve participation across the borough. 

We will share more information about how you can become involved once we start this phase of the project on the Newham Co-create platform in the coming weeks.

We are calling this a Resident Participation Framework. Developing a Resident Participation Framework was a recommendation from the Newham Democracy and Civic Participation Commission. You can find out more about the commission and the recommendations here