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Newsletter

Pub Quiz Friday 20th January

Community Services Conference

Network Annual General Meeting

March!           Luas    
 

2 Policy and Practice

   

Social Inclusion Policy

The Network plans to develop this policy to inform future strategies later in 2006.


Community Participation Policy

See Priority Goal 1.

Communications Policy and PR Policy

The Network hopes to form a communication group in 2006 to look at this issue.

Policy Submissions

The Network has commented and inputted into many policy arenas in the past and will continue to do so in the future. Examples of previous submission- mid-term review of National Drugs Strategy, Grangegorman Development Agency Bill, and O'Devaney Garden's consultation.

Representation

The Network currently meets with Dublin City Council on a quarterly basis to improve cohesion and discuss issues of mutual concern. The Network has been given a commitment by the HSE that a similar arrangement will be developed.

The Network also has representatives on the following bodies-

Dublin Inner City Partnership (www.dicp.ie)

Dublin Inner City Partnership is an independent local development company operating to a brief of responding to long-term unemployment and socio-economic disadvantage in inner city Dublin. The Partnership opposes all forms of poverty, discrimination and exclusion, and promotes the participation of the resident community of the regeneration of their locality. It aims to enhance the quality of life for all inner city residents who experience deprivation and disadvantage by reinforcing their individual rights to work, education and adequate income.

NWICN has two board representatives on the board of the Dublin Inner City Partnership :Danny Pender and Grainne Foy. NWICN continues to participate in the DICP working groups and in particular the Inner City Social Inclusion Co-ordinating Group. This group focuses on ensuring that all social inclusion measures undertaken and delivered to inner city disadvantaged communities are in line with the principles of the local development programme and are of added value and benefit to the target groups they are directed at.

North Inner City Local Drugs Taskforce (NICLDTF)

NWICN works closely with the NICLDTF and has three community representatives (Noeleen Jennings, Jimmy Norman and Marie Conner), nominated by the Network's Drugs Working Group, that represent the interests of the community relating to drug policy, Rehabilitation and Education. The Drugs Taskforce has had a positive impact on the community, specifically with regards to the financial resourcing of community drug services and educational awareness programmes for the North Inner City. The NICLDTF has been very successful in lobbying government and influencing national drug policy.

RAPID

'Revitalising Areas by Planning, Investment and Development'. Michael McCarthy is the Network's representative on this body. RAPID has played animportant role in attracting state investment into the NWICN area over the last year. The most recent investment has been the 'Additionally Strand', of the Dormant Accounts Fund. Representatives from all state agencies and the community participate in the RAPID Area Implementation Team (AIT). This has proven to be a good information dissemination and feedback mechanism for both parties.

Historical Area Rejuvenation Project (HARP) Monitoring Committee

HARP Monitoring Committee oversees the implemenation of urban development strategies within the Harp area of Dublin (Capel St. to Collins Barracks and from the keys to Arbour Hill/Brunswick St.). Danny Pender represents the Network on this body.

    


117 / 118 North King Street, Dublin 7.
 Phone: 01 6774494, Fax: 01 6774025, E-mail: info@nwicn.ie