The Partnership agreed to deliver a number of independently facilitated (by Involve) workshops. In planning the workshops, the subgroup agreed to use geographic markers of North, South, East, and West, while also targeting elected members and communities of interest. Additional outreach events were also planned to target children and young people and older people.

A total of 130 participants from 63 organisations attended the events and told us what the priorities meant for them and their community. The workshops also provided an opportunity to check that the long-term vision and outcomes are still relevant and meaningful. Participants were asked to respond to a simple poll and provided clear support that these should remain unchanged.

Responding to the question, ‘Are the vision and outcomes still very relevant, fairly relevant, or no longer relevant’, only 3% of respondents felt that the visions and outcomes are no longer relevant. 40% felt they were fairly relevant, and 57% felt they were still very relevant.

The main substantive discussion of the workshops focussed on the priority themes which had been introduced and explained during the session. The discussion was structure in two parts, asking participants: 1. Are the priorities still right? and 2. What do they mean for your communities?

Feedback from participants suggests that the emergent priorities are a valid framework to progress to the action planning phase; although some proposed priorities that they felt were missing, or highlighted areas which they felt needed to be made a priority in its own right. Additionally, feedback was received on underpinning considerations, the community planning process, implementation, evaluation, and governance. A summary report of both the emergent priorities and underpinning considerations is included below.

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