This document will be of interest to community minded residents, introduction below and link to more here…
Introduction to the Inequalities Project
• The Inequalities Project has been run collaboratively between Public Health and the Strategy, Policy & Performance team, in partnership with a wide range of council services (including AfC, housing, Optalis, communities) and borough-wide partners, including from health and the VCS.
• Overarching aim: to support all residents and communities to achieve their ambitions and fulfil their potential, with a focus on those who are at risk of poor outcomes – thereby reducing demand for high cost, high threshold services.
• The aim of this evidence pack is to create a stronger collective understanding of how inequality and disadvantage are experienced in our borough, to help us, as a system, to develop a more effective, shared approach to preventing and reducing poor outcomes.
• The pack summarises the key insights from the evidence gathered. It focuses on the voice of our communities and our frontline teams within the council and partners (including health and voluntary organisations). Quotations represent the individual opinions and experiences of those interviewed.
• The pack concludes with a set of initial implications for how we can strengthen our approach to best support residents, in order to reduce disadvantage and inequalities.
