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Recognising digital exclusion
Nominations for the Mayor’s Awards 2025 are now open and will close on Monday 20 January 2025.
Mayor’s Awards celebrate those who have made an outstanding contribution to local life in Kensington and Chelsea. This year, we are seeking nominations in the following categories:
The Mayor's Awards are an annual opportunity to celebrate the achievements of individuals, groups and organisations that have made an outstanding contribution to life in Kensington and Chelsea.
KCSC has worked with numerous stakeholders to develop a Charter for Public Participation in response to the Council’s request for responses to their recent six-month Borough and Area Governance Review. Local people asked for more clarity how they will make it easy for people to get involved in what the Council does, especially in Council decision-making. The council said...
"In response to their request, and to help us to deliver on our Council Plan commitments, we have drafted a Charter for Public Participation (available via this link). The new Charter will stand alone as our public commitment, as well as forming part of our Council’s Constitution."
See here the full response from KCSC
This paper proposing contents of a Charter for Public Participation is the initiative of Kensington and Chelsea Social Council (KCSC) and has been written and finessed in conjunction with several members of the Grenfell Network Group (GNG). It's principal authors were Stephen Duckworth and Joe Batty with additional support from Moyra Samuels, Faisal Metalsi, Tom Charles, Abbas Dadou & Michael Ashe.
KCSC has engaged with RBKC’s Governance Review since its inception. Prior to this, we have worked in partnership with the Volunteer Centre Kensington and Chelsea to support the Centre for Public Scrutiny and Democracy Society to engage with local people and the voluntary and community sector in its review of the RBKC’s governance and decision-making structures. We have facilitated discussions through KCSC’s Grenfell Network Group meetings, submitted collective responses as the review has progressed, and attended and contributed to the Panel’s open meetings.
See here the full response from KCSC to the Borough and Governance Review Recommendations sent on 25 April 2019.
Involving people in decision-making- what does good look like? How do local people want to be involved in decision-making (borough-wide and in local areas)?
Involving the voluntary and community sector in local decision-making processes
The Voluntary and Community Sector (VCS) in Kensington and Chelsea play a vitally important role within Kensington and Chelsea in providing local services for residents. KCSC understands and appreciates the distinct difference between providing services for residents and ensuring that the voices of residents are integral to a decision-making process. The VCS is at the coalface and therefore ideally placed to understand and respond to local need, whilst advocating that public and voluntary sector services must be agile enough to respond to changing needs.
See here the full sbmission from KCSC to the Borough and Governance Review Recommendations sent on 28 November 2018.
