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RESOLVED:

1.    That Cabinet supports and endorse the strategic approach of delivering in partnership in towns, to address key priorities for residents, communities, partners, and the County Council.

2.    That Cabinet approves the prioritised towns, identified through assessment against key socio-economic and health criteria, as set out at paragraph 20.

Reasons for Decisions:

As set out in the report, a number of communities and places in Surrey experience significant challenges with e.g. health inequalities, worklessness, skills, aging populations, child poverty, homelessness and housing, despite the general perception of the county as comfortable and prosperous. Partners across the county have set out high ambitions, supported by strategic plans, to address these. Experience has shown that the complex nature of many of the ‘wicked issues’ requires a multi-agency, highly collaborative approach. The approach being recommended, which reflects the learning from work to date, will drive practical delivery, beyond strategic intent, through convening, galvanising and empowering partners to work together to deliver, at an optimum spatial level (e.g. towns), supported, guided and overseen by elected representatives.

(The decisions on this item can be called-in by the Communities, Environment and Highways Select Committee)

The report was introduced by the Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Communities and Community Safety who explained that the report set out the work and approach to deliver essential services for residents in Surrey towns. Multi agency service delivery would take place at a local town level and would be based on the council and partners priorities. The town's approach would enable the council to target resources and efforts at the people and neighbourhoods in Surrey that were most at risk of being left behind. The council would be working with partners to reduce health inequalities, improve life expectancy, improve equality of opportunity and enable access to services. The work being undertaken would focus on the priority groups that had been agreed by partners in the Surrey Health and Wellbeing Strategy.

RESOLVED:

1.    That Cabinet supports and endorse the strategic approach of delivering in partnership in towns, to address key priorities for residents, communities, partners, and the County Council.

2.    That Cabinet approves the prioritised towns, identified through assessment against key socio-economic and health criteria, as set out at paragraph 20.

Reasons for Decisions:

As set out in the report, a number of communities and places in Surrey experience significant challenges with e.g. health inequalities, worklessness, skills, aging populations, child poverty, homelessness and housing, despite the general perception of the county as comfortable and prosperous. Partners across the county have set out high ambitions, supported by strategic plans, to address these. Experience has shown that the complex nature of many of the ‘wicked issues’ requires a multi-agency, highly collaborative approach. The approach being recommended, which reflects the learning from work to date, will drive practical delivery, beyond strategic intent, through convening, galvanising and empowering partners to work together to deliver, at an optimum spatial level (e.g. towns), supported, guided and overseen by elected representatives.

(The decisions on this item can be called-in by the Communities, Environment and Highways Select Committee)