Derbyshire Dales Citizens' Panel is one of the ways in which the council listens to the residents of the Derbyshire Dales. The panel enables the Council and its partners, including Derbyshire County Council and Derbyshire Police, to monitor public satisfaction with their services, and ask residents any questions of interest. It was set up early in 2001 by sending out a recruitment questionnaire to 6,000 local people, selected at random from the electoral register, inviting them to take part. From the responses to the recruitment questionnaire, 1,000 people were selected and invited to join the panel. Since then, a third of the panel has been replaced each year to enable more residents to take part. The panel is broadly representative of local people in terms of age, gender and geographical area.
Topics already covered by the Citizens Panel are:
- Crime and Safety Survey
- Citizens Panel Recruitment
- Quality of Life, Community Priorities & Culture
- Electronic Government
- Community Strategy
- Local Plan
- Housing and Homelessness
- Street Cleansing
- Markets
- Car parking
- Voting
- Public conveniences
- Environmental Protection
- Revenues
For more information on the Citizens Panel please contact 01629 761102
Citizens panel timetable and results
Citizens panel focus group feedback
To view the feedback from the consultation we have done with older people click here