This guidance is designed to help partnerships on both points. The Government wants each NDC partnership to develop the 'learning habit' from the start. This means giving members of the Partnership regular opportunities to learn more about different aspects of neighbourhood renewal. We will look at this, as part of the process of assessing the Delivery Plan. The first source of expertise and knowledge is local people.
People living and working in the neighbourhood have an enormous amount of knowledge and skills.
The partnership's first priority must be to tap into that reservoir of knowledge - about local needs and problems, and ideas about changing things for the better. Partnerships can also contact people in other parts of the city who have been involved in regeneration programmes in the past - residents, workers in voluntary or community organisations, council officers, health workers, police, and so on. Your partnership is almost certainly already doing this. The more people you involve, the greater will be your sources of local knowledge and ideas. How we will help Under this heading, you are the experts.