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Title: Social Planning Techniques


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Social Planning Techniques
  • What is Social Planning ?
  • Week 1

Rochelle Woodley-Baker Course Co-ordinator 2007
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Menzies, Ground Rules 1993A Social Planning
Handbook for Local Govt. NSW.
  • Social Planning is the process of investigating
    and responding to the needs and aspirations of
    the people who live or work in a community.

3
Social Planning Guidelines for QLD LG 1996
  • Social Planning is an organised process for
    investigating and responding to the needs and
    aspirations of people and communities. In
    practice, it is based on a set of values,
    techniques and skills that contribute to better
    communities and quality of life.

4
PIA - Social Planning Chapter
  • Social planning plays a pivotal role in creating
    liveable communities, vibrant economies,
    sustainable places, diverse cultural expression
    and social cohesion. 

5
PIA - Social Planning Chapter
  • Social planning involves planning for the needs
    and aspirations of people and communities through
    strategic policy and action, integrated with
    urban, regional and other planning activities. 

6
PIA - Social Planning Chapter
  • Social planning is founded on the principles of
    social justice (equity, access, participation and
    rights) and aims to enhance community well being
    and effectiveness.

7
City of Onkaparinga Social Development Policy
1998
  • Social planning embraces a planned approach to
    enhancing the quality of life of community by
    identifying needs facilitating the timely,
    coordinated and accessible provision of human
    services, and community facilities and involving
    the community in the planning and development of
    the area.
  • .

8
Put simply
  • It is about planning to improve wellbeing and
    quality of life in local communities.

9
Social planning is
  • People focussed while physical or environmental
    planning is place-focussed, but clearly the two
    interact.
  • A vital input into environmental and physical
    planning, particularly in examining the social
    impacts of changes to the built environment.

10
Social Planning Process
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Social Planning Process
  • Characterised by being
  • Strategic
  • Consultative
  • Participatory
  • Negotiated
  • Developmental

12
History of Social Planning
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A brief history
  • Councils have been involved in social/community
    planning since the beginning of local government
  • The level of social planning has varied across
    the states and this has been largely to do with
    state constitutions and size of councils

14
SA history
  • 1975 LG general revenue sharing was introduced
    which saw the commencement of LG in human
    services
  • 1980-1985 Rapid growth of Councils involvement
    in providing human services and the development
    of community services teams aged care, housing
    community care, neighbourhood houses etc

15
SA history
  • 1985 to present
  • SA led the way through green field sites with
    first social plan developed by SAULT Golden
    Grove/TTG
  • Review of Planning Strategy for Metropolitan
    Adelaide equity, access and social aspects were
    critical elements in the Planning Strategy
    providing a strong framework for social planning
    in SA

16
Integrated Local Area Plans ILAP
  • ILAP stimulated the development of social
    planning by making the connections between
  • Development
  • Environmental
  • Economic
  • Social and cultural

17
Today
  • Social Planners or community planners are now
    part of LG
  • They are very active in the development of urban
    regeneration projects, green field development,
    population based planning, such as, ageing,
    youth, children, migrants, disabilities or issues
    such as cultural development, recreational
    planning, social infrastructure etc.

18
Key Principles
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Key principles that are central to social
planning
  • Equity
  • Access
  • Choice
  • Advocacy
  • Communication and Consultation
  • Participation
  • Timeliness
  • Adaptability and flexibility
  • Collaboration and Cooperation

20
Equity
  • Means fair distribution of resources, political
    power and opportunities to participate in the
    life of the community.
  • It is important to recognise the difference
    between equity and equal
  • Equal means being the same
  • Equity means being fair, not assuming that
    everyone starts from the same point or has the
    same capabilities.

21
Access
  • Means fair and equal access to a range of quality
    services essential to achieving and maintaining a
    reasonable quality of life.

22
Choice
  • People should be able to choose from a range of
    options and alternatives in housing, education,
    and employment opportunities as well as community
    support services etc

23
Advocacy
  • LG has a legitimate role and is well placed to
    advocate and lobby for the needs and aspirations
    of the local community

24
Communication and consultation
  • Implicit in any definition of social planning is
    an understanding that decisions which relate to
    quality of life issues must be informed by
    community involvement and the views of those
    people who will in some way be affected by the
    decisions

25
Participation
  • Creating opportunities and a range of options for
    people to actively participate in civic, social
    and political life, and to influence decisions

26
Timeliness
  • Means planning in advance so that services and
    resources are available in a timely manner, that
    is, when they are needed

27
Adaptability and flexibility
  • Plans and program implementation should be
    flexible to accommodate changing community needs
    over time

28
Collaboration and cooperation
  • Planning and provision of services should be
    integrated, where possible, and be coordinated
    between, or in partnership with, government
    agencies, non-government agencies and the
    community.

29
Role of Social Planner
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Role of Social Planner
  • LG strategic planning process
  • Social Impact Assessment
  • Developing local area or regional social plans
  • Population planning eg youth, aged
  • Evaluating programs
  • Green field human service planning
  • Planning and facilitating a community forum
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