Purpose

The Cohesion and Integration 2024/28 Strategy
sets out how together we can develop stronger and more cohesive
communities where communities can flourish, feel they belong and
build a fairer and more inclusive County. We have aligned our key
priorities to that of LCC's corporate priorities, our approach will
focus on how we can build alliances to tackle inequalities and
develop community cohesion and integration by working with existing
partnerships, services, and various relevant communities. Please
note cohesion and integration is highly complex and sensitive area,
this strategy has been devised and developed over a long period via
various consultative and engagement processes.

Our three-pronged approach will be to collaborate and add value to
existing partnerships, our current services and build trust with
communities. We aim to strategically tackle local issues
collectively, and address the diverse challenges faced by the
communities by collaborating with the districts, other public
sector partners, voluntary community faith and social enterprise
(VCFSE), businesses and any other key stakeholders. Our focus will
be to ensure that we help promote cohesion with emerging as well as
existing communities, deprived communities and hard to reach
communities.