Council and democracy

Core Tasks

• To prepare a community strategy for the area, identify and deliver the most important things which need to be done, keep track of progress, and keep it up-to-date.
• To develop and deliver a local neighbourhood renewal strategy to secure more jobs, better education, improve health, reduce crime, and better housing, narrowing the gap between deprived neighbourhoods and the rest and contributing to the national targets to tackle deprivation.
• To bring together local plans, partnerships and initiatives to provide a forum through which mainstream service providers (local authorities, the police, health services, central government agencies, and bodies outside the public sector) work effectively together to meet local needs and priorities.
• To work with local authorities that are developing a local Area Agreements to help devise and then meet suitable targets.