Community cohesion

Community cohesion describes the ability of communities to function and grow in harmony. A cohesive community has strong links to concepts of equality and diversity, and can be defined as:

• there is a common vision and a sense of belonging for all communities
• the diversity of people’s different background and circumstance is appreciated and positively valued
• those from different backgrounds have similar life opportunities

Strong and positive relationships are developed between people from different backgrounds in the workplace, in schools and within neighbourhoods.

Documents

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	Improving opportunities and strengthening society - this strategy sets out one strand of the Government's overall drive to improve fairness and opportunities for all in Britain; how we will ensure that a person's ethnicity is not a barrier to their success and how we will foster the cohesion necessary to enable people from minority and majority communities to work together for social and economic progress. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 712KB
	Improving opportunities and strengthening society: one year on - provides an insight into the work and activities undertaken across Government over the last year to increase race equality and community cohesion. This report outlines the progress towards achieving equality in the key public services; education, the labour market, housing, health and the criminal justice system. It also sets out progress in building community cohesion. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 1.1MB
	Commission for integration and cohesion - advice note. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 105KB
	Improving opportunity, strengthening society - advice note. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 187KB
	Equalities Impact Assessment - this is the Equalities Impact Assessment for our Local Area Agreement commitments around community cohesion. File format Adobe Acrobat (pdf) - 68KB