YHN Delivery Plan 2012-13 - Your Homes Newcastle

Our vision for ensuring value formoney across the organisation is:“To deliver excellent services in aneconomic, efficient and effectiveway which will enable the provisionof sustainable, good quality anddesirable homes and contributetowards improving localcommunities”.Further information about ourapproach to delivering Value forMoney is set out in our Value forMoney strategy 2010-2014.Working in partnershipWorking in partnership opens upopportunities that otherwise would nothave existed or would not have beenas beneficial for the organisationsinvolved.Working with partners has manybenefits for YHN; it allows us to:Achieve more by poolingresources resulting in greatervalue for moneyProvide extra services andbetter support for our mostvulnerable tenantsExtend our creative possibilitiesand deliver positive activities fortenants which we would not beable deliver on our ownHelp our tenants accessemploymentWork in partnership with otherorganisations and communitiesto help make our communitiessaferImprove the energy efficiency ofour homes, and provide morehomes for people to live in.At YHN we know we cannot achieveour vision on our own; we recognisethe power of great partnerships. Manyof our most recent successes havebeen based on team work andpartnerships with outsideorganisations. The key to theirsuccess lies in ensuring that we areopen to new possibilities and newpartnerships and that we manage ourpartnerships well.Equality and DiversityEquality and diversity is an importantpart of everything that we do at YourHomes Newcastle. Our customerscome from diverse backgrounds andwe are committed to providing anddelivering services that meet theirneeds.As an organisation who has achievedthe ‘excellent’ level of the SocialHousing Equality Framework, we areworking hard to ensure our continuedcompliance with the general equalityduty placed upon us by the EqualityAct 2010. This means that we need tohave due regard for the need to:Eliminate unlawfuldiscrimination, harassment andvictimisation and other conductprohibited by the Act.Advance equality of opportunitybetween people who share aprotected characteristic andthose who do not.Foster good relations betweenpeople who share a protectedcharacteristic and those who donot.Overall responsibility for equality anddiversity rests with our Board, and ourChief Executive acts as our corporatechampion. However, our staff at alllevels think about equality anddiversity in their everyday workingactivities to make sure that we are16