Our Principles

“Creating the environment for all partners to participate”

The partnership is based on a real partnership of equals, with shared principles, understanding and respect. To achieve this and to ensure the partnership is truly representative, a number of key principles underpin how the partnership identifies its priorities, manages the planning process and structures itself to deliver its objectives. These include:

• Inclusiveness – creating the environment for all partners to participate
• Involvement – recognising and integrating the priorities, strategies and compromises of and between existing partnerships and networks
• Simplification – identifying a small number of common issues and concerns for joint action and doing a few things well
• Adding value – focusing on issues where joined-up thinking and action can bring benefits
• Openness and transparency – of process and decision making
• Learning from and developing good practice – building on best practice from other partnerships, both local and national, and increasing the skill levels and knowledge of everyone involved

The Partnership will integrate principles of equality by striving to enable people to participate, on a more equal basis, in social, cultural, political and economic life. The Partnership will seek to implement these principles through the Community Strategy, the Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy and the Climate Change Action Plan.