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No.
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Action
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Strategic Plan Priority
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Division Lead(s)
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Cabinet Portfolio(s)
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4.1
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We will deliver the final year of our 5-year Violence Against Women and Girls (VAWG) Strategy.
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Priority 6: Empower Communities and Fight Crime
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Community Safety
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Cabinet Member for Safer Communities
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4.2
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We will refresh the current VAWG strategy and include women’s safety as a key theme. This will include work with directorates and departments such as Parks and Leisure, Highways, Licensing, Planning etc to improve safety and security.
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Priority 6: Empower Communities and Fight Crime
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Community Safety
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Cabinet Member for Safer Communities
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4.3
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We will work with partners to improve outcomes for women in the criminal justice system.
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Priority 6: Empower Communities and Fight Crime
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Community Safety
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Cabinet Member for Safer Communities
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4.4
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We will develop dedicated programmes and spaces for women from ethnic minority backgrounds. In particular, we will support the establishment of a dedicated resource centre for women from the Bangladeshi community.
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Priority 6: Empower Communities and Fight Crime
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Property and Major Programmes / Strategy, Improvement & Transformation
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Cabinet Member for Regeneration, Inclusive Development & Housebuilding
/ Cabinet Member for Equalities & Social Inclusion
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4.5
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We will support and empower women, particularly ethnic minority women, with dedicated projects and programmes, and dedicated community facilities.
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Priority 6: Empower Communities and Fight Crime
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Strategy, Improvement & Transformation
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Cabinet Member for Equalities & Social Inclusion
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4.6
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We will seek to improve equality of access to sports, gyms and swimming. We will deliver targeted women and girls sports, including women only gym and swimming sessions.
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Priority 4: Boost culture, business, jobs and leisure
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Sports & Physical Activity
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Cabinet Member for Culture & Recreation
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4.7
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We will deliver employment and training schemes to reduce the employment gap for women in our borough in particular for Black, Asian and multi ethnic women.
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Priority 4: Boost culture, business, jobs and leisure
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Growth & Economic Development
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Cabinet Member for Jobs, Skills & Growth
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4.8
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We will deliver a Women’s Commission to improve outcomes for women. We will work as a partnership to identify the key issues for women in the borough and to produce an agreed Women’s Strategy for Tower Hamlets, with a specific, time limited and practical action plan for its delivery which will ensure women feel empowered to fulfil their potential.
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Priority 6: Empower Communities and Fight Crime
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Strategy, Improvement & Transformation
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Cabinet Member for Equalities & Social Inclusion
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