DRAFT North Somerset Sustainable Community Strategy 08 - 26.pdf

Aim:Encourage community cohesionwithin our urban and ruralneighbourhoods.‘It would be good to have morelocal festivals, celebrating life inNorth Somerset’ – Backwell.‘We need to openly celebratediversity’ – Nailsea.related photo to be inserted?Improvements we want to see include:• Positive relationships developed between peoplefrom different backgrounds or of different lifestages in workplaces, schools andneighbourhoods where people’s diversity isappreciated and valued.• Work with young people to provide positiveactivities for them to engage with.• Celebration of diversity and communities’achievements.• Community information and advice inappropriate formats to reflect the diversity of ourcommunities. For example; information istranslated into large print, audio, Braille or mothertongue languages.How we will know if we are making progress:We will use a range of appropriate quality of life indicators to show change over time.Where performance against specific issues is to be monitored these will be identifiedwithin specific action plans developed by the delivery partnerships.Quality of Life Indicators to monitor progress towards developing strong inclusivecommunities• Number of people who live in the most deprived 20% of areas nationally.• Percentage of residents who think that for their local area, over the past three yearsthe following have got better or stayed the same a) activities for teenagers; b)cultural facilities (for example, cinemas, museums); c) facilities for young children; d)sport and leisure facilities; and e) parks and open spaces.• Difference between wards with worst health and deprivation indicators and thepopulation as a whole.• Proportion of people who voted in local and town/parish elections.• The number of people recorded as or reporting that they have engaged in formalvolunteering on average at least 2 hours a week over the past year.24