Learn how to work with echo - a framework designed to support public sector agencies to be more open and responsive to community influence. This two day course is designed for people who work in the public sector and want to facilitate discussions in their organisations or teams about the barriers and assists to community influence and plan different ways of working.

Previous participants on this course include practitioners, managers, commissioners and elected members from organisations such as Local Strategic Partnerships, Commissioning Boards, Children’s Trust, Fire Service, Police Service, Local Authority Departments and Primary Care Trusts. People who have worked with it to date have said things like this…

• It helps consistency, gives us a common language about engagement and offers ways to talk to the non-converted about communities and their role in influencing appropriate service provision
• It offers a structure to help develop a Community Engagement Strategy
• It can provide us with a baseline of where we are in terms of engagement – and an action plan to move forwards
• It encourages people to think differently – and look more deeply into what outcomes could be
• It turns the intangible into the tangible
• It can help the organisation move forward in terms of equality and diversity
• It can help us to recognize, locate and learn from good practice
• It can help us to work more in partnership

The course and supporting resource pack equip you to lead discussions in your organisation and plan ways of working to increase community influence.

echo is one of 4 frameworks in the Axis of Influence series:
www.axisofinfluence.co.uk