Cambridgeshire's Vision
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Cambridgeshire’s Vision 2007 – 2021 Countywide Sustainable Community Strategy Working together to improve the quality of life for all who live, learn, work and travel in Cambridgeshire Cambridgeshire’s Vision 2007 – 2021 Countywide Sustainable Community Strategy CONTENTS FOREWORD 3 VISION STATEMENT 4 VISION IN CONTEXT 5 INTRODUCTION TO THE COUNTY 8 The Five Themes: MANAGING GROWTH 18 ECONOMIC PROSPERITY 20 ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY 23 EQUALITY AND INCLUSION 25 SAFER AND STRONGER COMMUNITIES 28 PARTNER ORGANISATIONS 30 2 Working together to improve the quality of life for all who live, learn, work and travel in Cambridgeshire FOREWORD This vision sets out the commitment from partner organisations to provide high quality cost effective public services that meet the needs of the people of Cambridgeshire now, and in the future. Cambridgeshire is a good place are met. The priorities in this vision We will continue our joint work in which to live, learn, work and document have been identified to tackle the issues that are most visit but it is also a county facing through the input and engagement important; and we want to work many challenges, not least of which of different partnerships with you to achieve this. is the anticipated housing and and organisations, under the population growth. We can meet coordination of an overarching The Cambridgeshire these challenges by working Board that brings together high Together Board together to improve the quality level representatives from key of life for everyone. organisations across the public, private and voluntary sectors We have set out in this document involved in the delivery of local our collective vision and the priority services. This Board is called areas we will be focusing on to Cambridgeshire Together. ensure the needs of all our residents 3 Cambridgeshire’s Vision 2007 – 2021 Countywide Sustainable Community Strategy VISION STATEMENT Our vision is for Cambridgeshire to be a county of strong, growing, prosperous and inclusive communities supported by excellent services where people can fulfil their potential; live longer, healthier lifestyles; and influence decision-making. We will deliver this vision by T Equality and Inclusion – educational standards increase, the T Focusing on our citizens and focusing on five key goals, supporting vulnerable groups health of our communities improves celebrating Cambridgeshire’s each with a set of priorities and enabling them to participate and the general quality of life is diversity by promoting social to achieve them. These are fully in community life, and improved. inclusion; (in no particular order): encouraging healthier and more sustainable lifestyles Cambridgeshire Together T Recognising and supporting the T Growth – accommodating has a clear and strong role of the voluntary sector in growth, creating flagship T Safer & Stronger commitment to: service delivery and community communities and ensuring Communities – engaging and citizen involvement the benefits of growth and citizens in service planning and T Recognising geographical, infrastructure are enjoyed by improvement and ensuring our social and economic differences We already have a number of strong all communities communities enjoy good quality within the county and responding partnerships within the county such of life and health, with low crime, appropriately to challenges as the Children and Young People’s T Economic Prosperity – low unemployment, and free from and needs; Strategic Partnership (CYPSP) and supporting the special role of discrimination and inequalities. the Cambridgeshire & Peterborough Cambridgeshire as a centre T Working in partnership at Waste Partnership (RECAP) among of knowledge and innovation, The need to ensure sustainability the local, sub-regional and many others. We want to build on especially in low carbon through our actions is an underlying regional level; existing examples of good practice technologies principle through this vision. The by conducting a review of our social, economic and environmental T Empowering our local governance arrangements, linking T Environmental Sustainability – aspects of the priority outcomes in communities to engage in to the Local Area Agreement (LAA), meeting the challenges of climate this vision have to be considered to shaping service planning to ensure these are fit for purpose change while maintaining a high ensure that our goals are achieved and delivery; and enable us to achieve an even quality environment and sustained, i.e. incomes rise, more integrated approach to service planning and delivery. 4 Working together to improve the quality of life for all who live, learn, work and travel in Cambridgeshire OUR SHARED VISION FOR CAMBRIDGESHIRE IN CONTEXT A local, regional and national drive for partnership and locality working The purpose of this vision is to three years to ensure our objectives and power to improve their lives. organisations, and develop shared set the long-term priorities for remain relevant and challenging. The White Paper emphasised the responses to improve the delivery Cambridgeshire, which will promote need to deliver better public services of services. the well-being of local people, the Cambridgeshire’s Local Area through a rebalancing of the economy and the environment. Agreement (LAA) will be the three relationship between central What we do is set within the wider We need to build on successes and year delivery plan for this vision. government, local government context of national and regional move forward in an ever changing The LAA, alongside the Action and other public service providers, policy. We will consider key policy environment, emerging trends and Plans developed by other key and local people. developments and strategies such changes in government policy that partnerships, will focus on the as the Comprehensive Spending are moving partnership working to delivery of outcomes that will Effective action depends on local Review (CSR 2007) setting out the the core of what we do, as local make a difference on the ground. public service providers having the Government’s long term review agencies tackle issues together to freedom and ability to adapt and of public sector spending; the achieve better results and greater For thirty years or more, successive change what they are doing, and Regional Spatial Strategy (RSS) efficiency. governments have acknowledged on strong joint working at the local laying out the framework for planning that many of society’s most level that facilitates the reshaping and development in the East of The priorities in the five district-based intractable problems can only be of services to meet the different Enland to the year 2021; the Sustainable Community Strategies dealt with by agencies working needs of different communities. Regional Economic Strategy have provided the building blocks together to tackle them at (RES) setting out how the region for this document, which covers community level. We recognise the opportunities can maintain its position as a leading the period from 2007 to 2021. and challenges the national agenda UK, and global, region; and the The aim is to bring together the In October 2006 the Local sets out for Cambridgeshire and Review of Sub-National Economic ambitions and aspirations of all Government White Paper, Strong we will respond to this agenda for Development and Regeneration Cambridgeshire’s communities and and Prosperous Communities, was change by continuing to strengthen (SRN) while keeping the needs and the organisations providing services pubished setting out government’s our commitment and approach to aspirations of our local communities to them. We expect this document ambitions to give local people and partnership working, improve the at the heart of what we do. to develop and to be reviewed every local communities more influence capacity of partnerships and partner 5 Cambridgeshire’s Vision 2007 – 2021 Countywide Sustainable Community Strategy Vision for Cambridgeshire, the Local Area Agreement (LAA) and the Local Strategic Partnerships (LSPs) – How it all fits together Cambridgeshire’s Vision Cambridgeshire’s National Countywide Sustainable Local Area Priorities Community Strategy Agreement - LAA (Cambridgeshire Together) (Vision’s delivery plan) Regional Priorities Local Priorities District Sustainable Sustainable Community Community Strategies Strategies Action Plans (Local Strategic Partnerships) OUTCOMES 6 Working together to improve the quality of life for all who live, learn, work and travel in Cambridgeshire Overview of governance arrangements and partnerships involved in the delivery of outcomes: Local Area Agreement Joint Accountability Committee (Scrutiny) Cambridgeshire Together Board (*) LOCALITY WORKING Cambridgeshire Chief Executives’ Liaison Group (CELG) District Local LAA Reference Group (*) Strategic Neighbourhood Parish Plans (LAARG) Partnerships Panels Neighbourhood (Support to the Board) (LSPs) Management Key Thematic Partnerships (*) T Community Safety Strategic Group T Children & Young People’s Strategic Partnership LSP thematic (CYPSP) partnerships (*) Governance T Economic Development Forum / Greater arrangements under the Local Cambridge Partnership Area Agreement T Cambs Care Partnership and Adult Task Group are undergoing a T Health and Well Being Partnership (new) review at the time T of producing this Climate change & environment partnership (new) document T CVSIC 7 Cambridgeshire’s Vision 2007 – 2021 Countywide Sustainable Community Strategy INTRODUCTION TO CAMBRIDGESHIRE