Improved fairness for greater equality and social cohesion
This solution addresses equality and social cohesion gaps in Bristol, UK for local community
Problem Description
Every person living in Bristol has the assets and opportunities to enjoy a good quality of life. Achieving greater equality and social cohesion are crucial to increasing Bristol’s resilience: this means providing affordable energy, water, food, shelter and access to employment for all as well as ensuring everyone can take part in the life of the city.Building Blocks
- Tackling street homelessness
- Cultural engagement to build social cohesion
- Votes for 16 year olds
- Social action volunteering
- Green and Black
- Community-based adaptation
- Equality charter
- Repurpose Neighbourhood Partnerships
- Establishing a resilient city financing structure
- Bristol Transport Plan
- Legible City
- Free bus travel for under 16
- New models of housing delivery
- Young Future Bristol
- Varied and frequent experience of work
- Voluntary Sector Strategy
- City Office partnership for cross-cutting, complex issues
- Horizon scanning
- Resilience and West of England devolution deal
- Resilience Impact Assessment
- Urban Integrated Diagnostics
- Natural Capital Trust
- Active and healthy ageing
- City metrics and Sustainable Development Goals
- Transformative Leadership
- Child Friendly City
Story
"Focus on fairness" is 1 of 5 goals of Bristol's Resilience Strategy. Bristol is an independent-thinking, sustainable and culturally diverse city with a high quality of life. Bristol is thriving. But there is no room for complacency. Changes are occurring at unprecedented rates in our economy, job markets, technology, environment, politics and population, and consequently our challenges are becoming both more severe and more unexpected. The vision of resilience articulated here is a distinctively ‘Bristol’ vision, and it is a genuinely collective one, emerging from not only rigorous data analysis but also the experiences and opinions of thousands of Bristolians, as well as national and international friends. We have co-created this Resilience Strategy, comprising a 50 year vision, resilience pillars, goals and transformative actions.
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Organisations Involved
Contributed By
- Sarah Toy, Strategic Resilience Officer, Bristol's Resilience Strategy
Solution Stage
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| STAGE | SPECIALIST SKILLS REQUIRED | EXAMPLE ACTIVITIES | RISK LEVEL AND HANDLING | FINANCE REQUIRED | KINDS OF EVIDENCE GENERATED | GOAL |
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| Developing and testing3 | Mix of design and implementation skills |
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HIGH |
MEDIUM | A stronger case with cost and benefit projections developed through practical trials and experiments, involving potential users | Demonstration that the idea works, or evidence to support a reworking of the idea |