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Major investment in borough-wide education facilities
Published by Ian Doak | Date June 06, 2011
Since summer 2009 Local Dialogue has been supporting Wates Construction and Luton Borough Council in their delivery of the Building Schools for the Future programme.
At our first project, Downside primary school, Local Dialogue supported proposals to significantly extend and modernise the school. Consulting with the school raised some specific challenges as almost 95% of the pupils at Downside primary school have English as their second language and many of the parents do not speak English. In anticipation of this, Local Dialogue produced all consultation material in a number of languages, including Polish and Urdu ensuring each section of the community were able to take part in the consultation.
Whilst carrying out the consultation at Downside, Local Dialogue was asked to develop a consultation programme to support a Centre of Excellence for children’s care at Marsh Farm Children’s Centre. The consultation programme was targeted at the immediate neighbours to the site, while ensuring that other key stakeholders, such as residents’ groups and regeneration bodies, were kept informed. Local Dialogue’s consultation also targeted the centre’s users, with a particular focus on disabled children and their parents.
At the start of 2010, Local Dialogue was appointed to manage consultations around proposals to expand and refurbish two secondary schools in the borough, Ashcroft High School and Cardinal Newman Catholic School. Each school required a bespoke approach to reach out to defined stakeholder audiences, such as teaching staff, pupils, residents, parents organisations and faith groups.
Currently, Local Dialogue is assisting Luton Borough Council with its latest wave of investment into primary sector schools. Throughout 2010, Local Dialogue managed the consultation around five schools, developing an overarching central consultation website, briefing key stakeholders, local residents, staff and pupils and hosting public exhibitions at each of the schools.
Our work with Luton Borough Council is continuing and we are currently undertaking consultation programmes informing the local community and key stakeholders about expansion works for two further primary schools. The consultation programmes are well underway and public exhibitions are scheduled for early summer 2011.
