Cookstown District Council

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Welcome to the Council's Good Relations Pages

The Council's Good Relations Vision for the District is:

" To develop and cherish Cookstown District as a place that's fair, tolerant and comfortable for everyone who lives in it or comes to it ... and where people's heritages and cultures are acknowledged, respected and celebrated"

Our Guiding Principles for the Advancement of Good Relations are:

The Council has set four guiding principles that are based on what we believe to be good practice in this area but also on what people told us was important to them.
The principles are good relations issues in the District will be seen not as problems but as realities:

  • The Good Relations Strategy aims to deal with things as they are … not as they might ideally be. 
  • The pursuit of equity; diversity; and interdependence will underpin local good relations work … but single identity and church/faith-based work will also be accepted as valuable and worthwhile in good relations contexts.
  • The Council will see good relations as a part of its core or mainstream business: that means it will use its resources; services; and facilities to promote good relations across the District. 
  • To advance good relations locally the Council recognises that a robust partnership between the following is required:

Therefore:

Councillors will provide leadership; resources; a community voice; and a scrutiny role

Council managers and staff – will implement the plans; challenge themselves and others; and seek out best practice

the wider community sector – will help deliver the Council’s (and others’ plans); to take forward their own work; and to provide feedback

 


Good Relations Strategy

(adobe .pdf, 385 kb)