Council receives national recognition for working with its communities
Waltham Forest Council and the Borough’s police have been awarded Beacon status for their work in building Cohesive and Resilient Communities.
The Beacon awards recognise the Council’s excellent and innovative work in improving the quality of life for their residents and communities.
The Beacon status remains with us for the next 12 months and we have developed a number of actions showing our commitment to the Beacon promise to mentor, share and support a developing cohesion agenda across the country (and sometimes across the world).
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The Cohesion Action Plan 2009/10
The Cohesion Action Plan for 2009/10 has been developed in consultation with our community leaders, deliverers and commissioners. A few of the new targets include:
- Mapping of disengaged youth in the Somali community
- Delivering education to newly arrived businesses around envirocrime
- Participation in an innovative project being led by the Arts Council called the Square Mile Project
- Commissioning youth offers
- Commissions of events with older adults
» View the Cohesion Action Plan 2009/10 (146KB PDF file)
Living Together Working Together
Community Cohesion Strategy 2008/11
This strategy establishes Waltham Forest’s approach to community cohesion over the next three years. It identifies some of the key challenges facing the Borough and recommends practical ways in which we, in partnership, can attempt to deal with them.
» » Download Living Together Working Together (984KB PDF file)
Working with the borough’s police
The Beacon award recognises the work the Council and the borough’s police have carried out to work with a wide range of different organisations and groups to build stronger communities and tackle violent extremism.
» Read more on working with the borough’s police
Building cohesion in the community
We have a range of initiatives such as tension monitoring and the use of groups such as the Community Cohesion Task Group and the Faith Communities Forum. We work closely with our different communities to promote tolerance and respect.
» Read more on building cohesion in the community
Building cohesion with young people
The borough’s young people are involved in the process of building cohesion and preventing extremism both within and outside the formal education system.
We have set about building stronger communities, involving youth engagement by working with young people through projects including the Young Muslim Leaders Project, Swapping Cultures and the Youth Independent Advisory Group.
» Read more on building cohesion with young people
Contact
Safe and Strong Communities
Sycamore House
Waltham Forest Town Hall Complex
Forest Road
Walthamstow E17 4JF
email communitysafety@walthamforest.gov.uk
tel 020 8496 3000
