With everyone, for everyone

This plan is a commitment to creating a more sustainable borough where everyone can live a good life. Sustainability is about ensuring that there is economic, social, environmental and cultural wellbeing for everyone living in the borough now, and for those that choose to live here in the future.

Vision

Create a place that we can all take pride in, where everyone can live a good life now and in the future.

All partners will be committed to supporting these aims
  1.  Reducing poverty and inequality in all its forms by ensuring everyone has their basic needs met
  2. Improving population health and wellbeing at all ages and ensuring everyone has access to better care
  3. Growing local talent and skills by ensuring everyone can access quality education and lifelong learning opportunities
  4. Creating a prosperous and productive economy through innovative business, technology and by creating fulfilling and rewarding employment for the local workforce
  5. Developing vibrant places by ensuring quality housing and infrastructure, safe communities and a rich cultural scene in our towns
  6. Taking action on climate change to conserve natural resources, enhance the environment and improve air quality.
Everyone will be committed to cooperation

Cooperation offers a way of acting that will benefit everyone. Everyone in our borough will be co-operators – they will care about the place, the people that live here and help to improve things for themselves and others.

Cooperative principles

Self-help and Self-responsibility

Everyone will confidently take action
in improving their own lives.

Equity and Equality

Everyone will treat one another fairly
and put in joint effort to remove barriers so that everyone has the same life chances.

Democracy and Solidarity

Everyone will use their voice and power for good, and have compassion for looking out for one another and helping everyone to live their best life.

All partners will be committed to these sustainable ways of working

Transformation

Stop problems occurring or getting worse by carrying out prevention and early intervention activities to promote positive behaviour.

Using innovative approaches to balance between meeting short term demands or immediate pressures and creating long term value.

Finance and partnerships

Addressing challenges in a unified way and meeting needs collectively using shared finance and resources.

Delivering services in joined up ways so that people get a quality and seamless experience based on their wants and needs.

People

Developing motivated and skilled workforces that are able to deliver high quality services.

Involving people in decisions that affect their lives so they can help to identify and deliver solutions to problems that they are experiencing.

Cooperative values

We are Pioneering in our approach
  • We nurture talent, inspire and
    empower others
  • We practice new ways of working
  • We do things in the most efficient
    and effective way
We are Proud of the difference we make
  • We champion for our people
    and places
  • We are advocates for our work
    and reputation
  • We promote and celebrate
    achievements
We are Passionate about the diversity of the borough
  • We focus effort on delivering
    the greatest impact for our
    communities
  • We welcome and value diversity
    in our borough
  • We build positive and respectful
    relationships