Decision details

This report sets out proposals to further develop partnership working between the Council and organisations representing local residents and other groups within the City of Bath. It builds on and develops the work of the Bath City Liaison Forum and makes recommendations relating to future ways of working, in the context of the "Big Society".

(1) To ADOPT the approach to the future development of the Bath City Liaison Forum as set out in the report;

(2) To ESTABLISH an Interim Steering Group with the membership as set out in the report;

(3) To REQUEST the Interim Steering Group to prepare detailed Terms of Reference, membership and working arrangements to be agreed by the Leader of Council and presented for approval to the first meeting of the revised Forum.

The development of the Forum set out in this report arise from discussions with  the Federation of Bath Residents’ Associations and other residents’ groups designed to improve the operation of the Forum

Consultation with residents’ groups considered whether the Forum needed to continue and it was concluded that there was a role for an improved arrangement