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Welcome to the website of Manton Community Alliance.

Intro Important Docs

Manton Community Alliance is an award winning Government Neighbourhood Management Pathfinder, one of 35 that were introduced by central government to develop new creative ways of working in order to improve services and give local people a real influence in the shaping of services in their neighbourhood.

Manton Community Alliance has developed a model, outstanding in its success in changing attitudes and behaviour patterns of citizens and organisations providing services in the area.

 

The Manton Community Alliance Model

A Model fit for our times
We live in times where deprived communities of 10-20 years ago are still the deprived neighbourhoods of today.  Over those years there has been a relatively high amount of public money invested into “fixing” these neighbourhoods.  Therefore, it follows that money alone is not the answer.  MCA’s model is looking at problems differently.

  • Back in 2004 MCA adopted what is now seen as a ‘Big Society’ approach when it set its core principle as, “residents are part of the solution, not just passive consumers of public services”.
  • Again in 2004 MCA rejected the old neighbourhood renewal model of pump priming projects.  MCA saw this as expensive, ineffective and inefficient.  MCA replaced this model with a ‘social capital’ model focusing on changing the relationship between residents and the public sector.  Bringing both groups closer together and reducing a predominately blame culture and replacing it with a relationship built on trust, collaboration and mutual responsibilities.
  • MCA is an award-winning Pathfinder recognized for its innovation and delivering outcomes.  These outcomes are now having an effect on both the process and outcomes of public sector partners.
  • MCA wants to take hold of its own destiny, believing that it has the experience and drive to initiate and deliver change to many areas as part of public sector reform.
  • Evidence shows that MCA’s model delivers change by motivating citizens to see the value of doing things for themselves, and by ensuring that levers of power, shared between residents and the public sector, do deliver sustainable change that is both effective and efficient.
  • Part of MCA’s model is guarding against being obsessed with process rather than securing outcomes.  MCA’s management culture therefore, is not about becoming slaves to bureaucracy, but instead having the flexibility to respond quickly and appropriately, to reach outcomes or solutions.

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Important Documents

Here you will find all the latest corporate official documents from Manton Community Alliance. Each subsection contains specific documents;