Gender Equality:

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Gender Equality setting the scene in
Northamptonshire
Danny Brennan, Director for Sustainability,
Northamptonshire County Council
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What is Sustainability?

• ..meeting the needs of the present without
  compromising the ability of future generations to
  meet their own needs (Bruntland, 1987)
• ..vibrant local economies, new jobs, high
  quality housing (with solar roofing), integrated
  transport, regeneration that makes a real and
  lasting difference. Unbelievable that some people
  still think that sustainability is about the
  birds, bees and trees!' (David Puttnam, 2000)

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What is Sustainability?

• For us its about 3 things People, Movement,
  Place
• People? Its about quality of life and life
  chances
• Movement? Quality of transport transport choice
• And Place? Quality of the urban and rural fabric,
  economy and environment
• These things, add up to a socially, economically
  and environmentally Sustainable Northamptonshire.
• They all require equality, of opportunity, of
  access.

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How do we deliver?

• Delivering on on People, Movement Place?
• (i) through three core service areas
• (ii) through integration across these areas
• (iii) through championing and supporting (e.g.
  equalities, in the NCC organisation and beyond)
  the whole sustainability agenda, with partners,
  with communities

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The service areas

• Sustainable Transport roads, buses, traffic
  management,casualty reduction, schools and social
  services transport, community transport
• Sustainable development economic development,
  strategic _at_ land use planning, waste strategy,
  built and natural environment
• And Sustainable Communities neighbourhood
  renewal, community development, community safety,
  Drugs action team, Travellers unit, voluntary
  sector relationships and investment, and
  inclusion equalities

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The join?

• The problem with structures, any
  structures..Making join within ,across services,
  across NCC, e.g.
• Within community safety, drugs action and
  neighbourhood renewal and voluntary sector
  investment
• Across service casualty reduction in deprived
  areas, community transport key groups, planning
  out crime
• NCC wide the mainstreaming the equalities
  agenda,NR as a whole council objective,
  localities planning and impact
• With partners NR, community safety, growth mgmt

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The join?

• From goodwill to contractual engagement
• Sustainability Service and wider NCC
• Common strategy, common priorities, objectives.
  Service planning and Performance management with
  equalities as a clear common priority
• Partner agencies
• Joint sign up to local community strategies,
  county community strategy, with delivery plans
  targets, performance managed by Local Strategic
  Partnerships

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Examples Of Initiatives That Impact on Gender

• Northamptonshire Integrated Local Employment
  Strategy (NILES) project
• Milton Keynes South Midlands (MKSM) Growth
  agenda
• Community Strategy county wide delivery agent
• Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy
• Voluntary Sector Development