Our five priorities

We have identified a set of inter-connected priorities and Key Moves that will ensure we work together to overcome our Borough's challenges and achieve our shared vision for our communities.

To fully realise these, we will all have a part to play.

Central to everything we do is creating a Fairer Stockton-on-Tees and reducing the inequality that exists across the Borough, while improving the health and wellbeing of communities.

Creating A Fairer Stockton-on-Tees and reducing inequality

Our Council Plan builds on the A Fairer Stockton-on-Tees Framework 2021 to 2031 (PDF) [1MB] , an ambitious call to action to address the complex issues that can impact quality of life, life chances and life expectancy.

We recognise that a diverse set of responses are required to ensure equity, based on the needs of individuals. As such, we will listen to the needs expressed by individuals and be mindful not to oversimplify. We will also use data and intelligence to make sure we target our activity at the areas of greatest need. This is critical to ensure fairness in communities, and to give all of our children the best start in life.

Improving population health outcomes

We will focus on interventions in three inter-connected areas, those at a civic level (by this we mean the matters controlled by central and local government, such as regulations, fiscal measures, welfare and communication campaigns), alongside those that are community-based and service-based. Each of these can make their own impact on health and wellbeing, however we will seek to ensure that together, their impact is greater than the sum of their individual parts. We will do this through a co-ordinated approach to policy setting and delivery using the Local Government Association's Population Intervention Triangle approach, which will also support our work around early intervention and prevention.

Further detail about our ways of working can also be found in our Design Principles.