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Using community indicators to inform planning at City of Ballarat

Using community indicators to inform planning at City of Ballarat. NatStats Conference 08. Sally Bodenham Community Planning & Research Officer. Overview. How indicators are informing Ballarat’s health/social policy & planning How? Who? What? Integrated planning opportunities

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Using community indicators to inform planning at City of Ballarat

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  1. Using community indicators to inform planning at City of Ballarat NatStats Conference 08 Sally Bodenham Community Planning & Research Officer

  2. Overview • How indicators are informing Ballarat’s health/social policy & planning • How? • Who? • What? • Integrated planning opportunities • Issues/moving forward

  3. How are indicators being used? • Municipal Public Health Plan • Positive Ageing Strategy • Community Safety Action Plan • Youth Strategy

  4. Municipal Public Health Plan • Health (General Amendment) Act 1988 • Key strategic plan • 3 year plan • Protect health and enhance wellbeing

  5. Health Plan

  6. Development of Health Plan

  7. CIV: Joining the dots

  8. CIV: Informing

  9. Who is using? • Social/community planners • Community development officers • Arts & cultural officers • Corporate planners • NGO’s • Environmental officers? • Strategic planners? • Recreation planners? • Community Groups?

  10. What has changed? • CIV framework: joining, outcomes based • CIV Data: • informing • creating conversations • solution generation and change • monitoring & tracking outcomes • Informed decision making???

  11. Integrated planning opportunities Corporate planning -New Council Plan June 2009 Land use planning -Review of the Ballarat Planning Scheme -MSS

  12. Issues Effectiveness • How, Who, What? Quality & rigour • Reliability & validity

  13. Issues Timely • updated • CIV gap survey repeated Gaps in indicators • built & natural environment • local level indicators

  14. Gaps

  15. Issues Accessibility • user friendly • understandable Sustainability • need it to continue

  16. Conclusion • How is it being used? Health/social • Who is using? Social/community planners • What has changed? Joined up planning for health Determinants of health Increased access to data to inform decisions Informed conversations

  17. Conclusion • Integrated planning opportunities CIV framework Focus on HWB outcomes • Issues/moving forward Sustainability Gaps

  18. Further information Contact: sallybodenham@ballarat.vic.gov.au Website: http://www.ballarat.vic.gov.au/ (follow link to Community & Culture)

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