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Sustainable Community Strategy
'Releasing the Strength of our
Communities' is the current
Sustainable Community Strategy for Northumberland (there is
also an Executive Summary). It covers the
period to 2021 and was adopted by the partnership in September
2007.
Review
Since the document was approved the policy and operational
context both within Northumberland and nationally has changed
markedly. With the advent of a new partnership for the
county, it is now timely to revisit the SCS and ensure that its
content remains valid from our new perspectives and covers all
the issues it needs to.
A working draft of the new SCS is now
available. It is structured and written in such a way as
to give a genuine sense of Northumberland and presents a
rationale for our collective policy spoltlight for the next ten
to fifteen years.
The heart of the document is centred on six big partnership
issues. These focus on strategic outcomes that are
cross-cutting and overlap with each other:
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making climate change work to our advantage
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affording equality of access and opportunity
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narrowing the poverty gap
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giving everyone a voice and influence
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supporting our young people into adulthood
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working harder together for better outcomes
The document is not complete and is subject to an extensive
consultation to finalise its content. This closes on
Friday, 1 October 2010. Further details
are available in the June edition of People & Places .
Contact
Janice Rose, Corporate Policy Manager, Policy &
Partnerships Service
tel: 01670 534029; email: janice.rose@northumberland.gov.uk
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