Health

A guide for people in the health service on how you can help to build more cohesive communities

Prepared for iCoCo and the Department of Health by Andrew Lawrence, Principal Associate, iCoCo.

Contents:

1. Foreword
2. About this guide
   • Key issues and recommendations
   • Who this guide is for and how to use it
3. Health and community cohesion
   • The legal context
   • Community cohesion is an important contributor to health
   • Health is an important contributor to community cohesion
   • Key NHS priorities
4. The nature of community cohesion
   • How can we measure community cohesion?
   • What do we mean by a 'community'?
   • What are the causes of tension between communities?
   • Combating violent extremism
5. Ten challenging questions to help you to contribute to community cohesion
6. Practical approaches to community cohesion
   • Different ways to develop your strategy
   • Guides and toolkits
   • Needs assessments, impact assessments and audits
   • Tension monitoring and resolving conflict
7. Building community cohesion into your management systems
   • Developing vision, values and strategy
   • Developing partnerships
   • Engaging communities and understanding their needs
   • Planning and commissioning your programmes
   • Managing resources
   • Delivering services
   • Evaluating performance and learning from results