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Community Cohesion

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“Community Cohesion is what must happen in all communities to enable different groups of people to get on well together. A key contributor to community cohesion is integration which is what must happen to enable new residents and existing residents to adjust to one another.”

Leicestershire Together has established its own Community Cohesion Framework based on these and other principles outlined in the Commission on Integration & Cohesion’s document ‘Our Shared Future’ (Executive Summary and Recommendations). The Framework is the cornerstone of our community cohesion work, both internally and externally, further information is available on the factsheet ‘What are we going to do in Leicestershire?’Our work intends to ensure that the foundations of a cohesive community outlined by the Government, namely that:

  • People from different backgrounds have similar life opportunities.
  • People know their rights and responsibilities.
  • People trust one another and trust local institutions to act fairly.

Apply strongly in Leicestershire, but that we also look to extend such foundations to include a focus on understanding, shared experiences, respecting differences and creating a climate of hospitality, compassion, respect, harmony and friendship.

Leicestershire Together have used local intelligence and good practice to ensure that what we plan to do has a solid grounding based on local understanding, past experience and consultation and current community cohesion work.

We have paid particular attention to Leicester City’s Community Cohesion Strategy as we think that it is vital that co-ordination, collaboration and joint working takes place across the city/county geographical boundary.

The Community Cohesion Toolkit will develop to become a useful resource to all individuals and organisations of whatever nature in Leicestershire and also, we hope, wider afield. It will contain a series of factsheets on a wide variety of subjects – some of them serving to heighten awareness, some to refute myths, some to document good practice and some to suggest ideas for consideration and, hopefully, action.

The introductory factsheet gives a short summary of what the Toolkit will contain, how it will be put together and how people can make use of it.

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