Our Citizens' Panel "ViewPoint High Peak" is one of the ways in which we listen to the residents of the High Peak. The panel enables us and our partners, including Derbyshire County Council (DCC) and Derbyshire Police, to monitor what residents think of the services we provide and to ask what issues are important to them.
It was set up 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 includes people from all backgrounds and all parts of the High Peak Borough Council area. It is designed to be broadly representative of the District as a whole. The Panel aims to reflect the diversity of the area in terms of ward, gender, age, ethnicity, disability.
The 1,000 members on the Panel are asked to answer approximately four questionnaires per year on a variety of topics, including Crime & Safety, Quality of Life and Leisure.
The headline results, and copies of the questionnaire booklets, of all the Citizens' Panel's undertaken since 2001 are available by selecting from the drop down list below:
We give members regular feedback on what actions have been taken as a result of their views, in a newsletter that is sent out with every other questionnaire. Copies of all the past newsletters are available by selecting from the drop down list below: (PDF format).