Social cohesion in the local delivery context: understanding equality and the importance of local knowledge
Social cohesion in the local delivery context: understanding equality and the importance of local knowledge
This chapter describes the potential impact of the new Equality Act at a local level. It discusses how a developed understanding of social cohesion provides a broader moral and long-term context for decisions about community leadership and public-service delivery in local government. The chapter also argues the importance of grounding broad philosophical concepts and policies of community/social cohesion in the reality of understanding and addressing local inequality and disadvantage. The new Equality Act sets out to strengthen protection, advance equality, and simplify the law through a range of specific actions. Improvement and Development Agency (IDeA) has long had a dedicated resource for work on equalities, recently joined by community cohesion. The two councils that have so far achieved ‘excellent’ status – The London Borough of Tower Hamlets and Rotherham Metropolitan Borough Council – are reported.
Keywords: Equality Act, Improvement and Development, Tower Hamlets, Rotherham Council, social cohesion, local government, local inequality
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