Decision details

The Cabinet will be asked to comment on the draft Cohesion Strategy

2012-15 before it is submitted to the Public Services Board for approval

The Cabinet Member for Crime, Justice and Communities introduced the draft Community Cohesion Strategy for 2012-16 entitled “Together”, which represented the first community cohesion strategy for Barking and Dagenham developed by local partners under the umbrella of the local Community Strategic Partnership (CSP).

The Cabinet Member advised that the Strategy had the overarching objective of “ensuring that the Borough would increasingly be a place where people got on well together and supported one another” and the action plan that formed part of the overall Strategy would be regularly monitored and updated through the CSP.

Cabinet agreed to endorse the Community Cohesion Strategy for Barking and Dagenham 2012-16, as set out at Appendix A to the report.