Strengthening Civil Society

Here are some ideas about where the learning will go next.

There are the beginnings of ideas about how the Collective may develop.

Challenges for the Borough mean challenges for the Collective.

As the Collective sets its course for the third year, it will be mindful of how the aforementioned challenges and opportunities develop.

The resident voice remains faint, too often an afterthought. Is that fair?

These changes are having an impact. Not so much impact in terms of numbers, although that may come. But impact that is felt within the sector.

The change described in the last post is building on a strong platform for reform in Barking and Dagenham.

The Collective is now recognised as an emerging force for good in Barking and Dagenham. Other forces are emerging.

There are tensions. Inevitably. Some are old, some new. Some are deep seated, some contextual.

It will take time for the benefits of the networks to become apparent. But some gains are already clear.