It Starts Here: Partnerships for Change

A strategy for Barking and Dagenham focused on improving residents' lives through partnership, prevention, early intervention, and tackling inequalities. It aims to foster a place where people are proud to live, work, study, and stay, built on principles of 'People, Place, and Partnerships'. It outlines ten key missions focusing on areas such as healthy children, financial resilience, access to good work, managing long-term conditions, independent living, tackling domestic abuse, community safety, housing quality, neighbourhood cleanliness, and culture and heritage. It emphasizes a place-based approach, prevention, and early intervention, with a commitment to tackling inequalities. It aims to direct the council's next Corporate Plan and renewal of its wider strategic framework. Barking and Dagenham's new place-based vision for fostering collective ownership and driving improvements across ten key priority areas. It Starts Here: Partnerships for Change is Barking and Dagenham Council's new forward-looking strategy focusing on people, place, and partnerships, outlining ten key missions. A vision document for Barking and Dagenham aimed at fostering a healthier future for children through a collaborative, place-based approach.