Good-practice principles to support community engagement.
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About the Standards
The National Standards for Community Engagement are good-practice principles designed to improve and guide the process of community engagement.
Community engagement is a way to build and sustain relationships between public services and community groups - as well as a way organisations like community groups, voluntary sector groups and the private sector can better involve people in what they do.
There are 7 Standards:
Inclusion
Support
Planning
Working together
Methods
Communication
Impact
