Community cohesion

Community cohesion is what must happen in all communities to enable different groups of people to get on well together. People all want to fulfil their potential and feel that they belong and contribute to their local area.

Councils and their partners play a central role in providing services that are fair and promote equality and positive relationships. They are also taking an increasingly important and central role as community leaders and in ‘place shaping’. Place shaping involves defining the positive aspects of a locality and promoting local pride and belonging.

This resource offers a range of guidance, advice and good practice on community cohesion issues. It comes both from IDeA and a range of partners working in this policy area.

IDeA provides a range of support to councils and their partners. This includes addressing equalities and community cohesion through the new performance framework and peer-to-peer work on cohesion issues. 

For more information on the support available please contact:

Rose Doran, Community Cohesion Adviser
telephone: 020 7296 6537
email: rose.doran@idea.gov.uk