Agenda item

Engagement Service – Business Case Review

Sarah Wilks, Head of Engagement joined the meeting and was invited to give an update to the Forum regarding the restructure and future of the Engagement Service.

Sarah informed Members that a Business Change Consultant had been appointed to look at the whole Engagement Service and suggested some recommendations. She was now in the process of following those recommendations up and exploring them further before deciding what to do next.  One of the recommendations was to look at some of the teams in the service and how they can work more effectively together, which included the Ranger Team, Access & Rights of Way Team and Peak Park Conservation Volunteers (PPCV) and look at how they could be brought together into one super team and the advantages that that will have, so she is thinking about what that structure will look like.

She confirmed that this was an uncertain time for the staff in those teams, but she couldn’t go into any more detail on that at the moment.

Sarah then informed the LAF that they were very busy doing the new National Park Management Plan for April 2023 onwards, and that the Authority Plans would sit directly under that, so a lot of the things that had been talked about today at the Forum would sit within those new plans.

The Chair thanked Sarah for her update on the Engagement Service restructure, and for attending the meeting at such short notice.

Members’ Claims

Mike reminded Members that they were entitled to claim mileage for attending the Forum meetings and that the claim forms were available on- line, or if anyone wanted a paper copy then he could make them available.  Mike will send an email to all Members to remind them.

Members Claims

Mike reminded Members that they were entitled to claim mileage for attending the Forum meetings and that the claim forms were available on line, of anyone wanted a paper copy then he could make them available,  Mike will send an email to all Members to remind them.