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Introduction
This document is about maintaining and improving
the things that make our communities better places to live in (such as clean streets, safe neighbourhoods and a green
environment). We are a group of organisations working together as the
Bath
and North East Somerset
Local Strategic Partnership
(LSP). We want our community to be better for those who live in, work in and
visit our area. We aim to achieve this by setting out clear ambitions,
providing a framework for linking them together, and monitoring our
performance.
This is the first time that there has been a framework for the
long-term economic, social and environmental wellbeing of the area as a
whole. We have used feedback we received on the draft strategy to
improve our focus on local people’s priorities. Above all, this is
intended to be a useful document that promotes working together, provides
a framework for judging future plans and policies, and allows local
communities to see what they can expect from their local public services
over the next 10 years. We welcome your comments and will use them to
improve and develop the strategy still further.
This community strategy contains five shared ambitions setting out
how we plan to work together. These shared
ambitions will be built into all our work and the six improvement
ambitions contained in the strategy. All of these ambitions are set
out if you follow the links above.
This strategy is divided into sections covering
each ambition. The final section contains ways of checking whether
we are achieving the ambitions and for taking action if we are not. For
each ambition, there is a description of:
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why we believe the ambition is important;
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the things we are focusing on to meet the
ambition;
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actions we have identified to make
improvements;
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links to other partners we will work with to
meet the ambition; and
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references to other plans and strategies this
community strategy is designed to link with and influence.
To meet the ambitions set out in this strategy we
will work closely with a wide range of organisations and make
links with their plans. These include:
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Town and parish councils
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Residents’ and tenants’ groups
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Voluntary organisations and community groups
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Neighbouring Local Strategic Partnerships
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Schools and further- and higher-education
institutions
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Businesses and organisations working with
businesses
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Sub-regional partnerships (partnerships from
the area covered by the four councils of
Bristol,
North Somerset
, Bath & North East Somerset and
South Gloucestershire
)
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Our members and the organisations they
represent. (A list of organisations represented on the LSP can
be found at the end of this strategy.)
Some of the particular organisations we will work
with to meet the ambitions are named in each section.
Under each improvement ambition, there are
indicators that we will use to measure our progress in meeting the
ambition. For each indicator, the strategy sets out
the current situation so that we can measure improvements over time and
report on progress. The figures we use are generally based on
the latest published information for a full year available at the start of
2004. This means that many of the indicators cover 2002-2003 and may
have changed since. Please contact us if you have any questions
about any of these indicators, or wish to find out the most up-to-date
situation.
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