Coventry Sustainable Community Strategy

Coventry Community Strategy

The Coventry Sustainable Community Strategy (formerly the Community Plan) is the key planning document that the Coventry Partnership is using to improve local services in Coventry and at the same time, narrow the gap between our priority neighbourhoods and communities and the rest of the City.

Why a Community Strategy

The Coventry Partnership has committed itself and each member organisation to deliver this strategy which will

"Bring together the resources, energy and creativity of key organisations, groups, communities and people to work to meet the economic, social and environmental needs of the City of Coventry and the health and well-being of its people."

The strategy sets out the main themes and priorities for the city, the steps that are being taken to bring about improvements and some of the measures that we will use to track our progress.

The strategy features ten main themes that Coventry people have told us matter most to them:

Economy, Learning, Skills and Employment
Health, well-being and Independence
Community Safety
Cleaner, greener streets and open spaces
Children and Young People
Housing
Transport
Culture, Sport and Physical Activity
Equality of opportunity and involved, cohesive communities and neighbourhoods
Making a positive environmental contribution and tackling climate change

It now has several citywide partnerships which have been included:

Older People's Partnership

Learning Disability Partnership

Physical and Sensory Impairment Partnership

Neighbourhood Management Partnership

Mental health services partnership board

Cultural Partnership

Full Document: Coventry Sustainable Community Strategy.

In order to download the full Sustainable Community Strategy in pdf format you will need Adobe Acrobat Reader. For downloading a free reader:

http://www.adobe.co.uk/products/acrobat/readermain.html

Coventry City Council is already acting on the Sustainable Community Strategy by implementing the 3 year Local Area Agreement (LAA): The ideas behind the new LAA’s are to recognise that ‘one size does not fit all’ and local services should reflect what local people want; reduce red-tape and improve value for money; make local authorities and other public services more accountable to local people; and enable local people to get more involved in decisions about local services.
Each LAA captures up to 35 priorities chosen from a menu of 198 indicators in the National Indicator Set, in addition to 16 statutory indicators for education and early years development, plus local priorities decided on by the Coventry Partnership.
The local priorities chosen can be found at the following page: LAA

To ensure the Coventry Partnership is making a difference through the delivery of its activities to the areas and the people of the City we monitor and evaluate via Progress, Impact and Evaluation Group.