Graham is also Chair of Nottingham's Local Strategic Partnership, One Nottingham.

To see One Nottingham's website click here.

 

Graham's appointment to lead One Nottingham was confimed in October 2005.  He is the only MP to chair an LSP.  With this position, he has had unique opportunities to serve Nottingham in a number of positive ways. 

One Nottingham Vision

One Nottingham's new mission is "prevention, pre-emption, and early intervention." One Nottingham has already introduced new policies to teach every primary school child effective social behavior, to tackle the 50 most difficult families in Nottingham, to introduce a welfare to work scheme for Nottingham, to secure a community court for our city, and much else.  In addition, One Nottingham is looking at how to support better parenting skills for zero-two-year-old children and develop early intervention strategies to reduce crime. "We want to become an Early Intervention City, tackling the causes of Nottingham's inter-generational deprivation, not just servicing its consequences."

To make Nottingham a better place to live, by tackling inequality and deprivation.

One Nottingham Local Strategies:

Set in context of our own mission, our Community Strategy, and Local Area Agreement which covers all services in Nottingham, One Nottingham’s priorities will be · 

Improving attainment of children in low-achieving groups, not least by pre-school and school intervention· 

Attacking drug-related crime and its causes· 

Building in employability by creating bridges from deprived communities to employment opportunities and encouraging enterprise across all sectors· 

Developing local leadership including building strong and effective voluntary and community organisations· 

Promoting Social behaviour,as a compliment to tackling Anti-Social Behaviour, for example, through pre-parenting programmes for all (to address large-scale teenage pregnancy) and multi-agency help to key families before problems arise not after· 

Tackling low life expectancy, through a range of lifestyle changes including smoking cessation and drug misuse.

COMMON QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

What is One Nottingham?

One Nottingham has been going just over one year. It works to tackle deprivation and under achievement in our city. One Nottingham’s Board set its Mission to focus on “prevention, pre-emption and early intervention”. It is an umbrella body which pulls together all the organisations in Nottingham, from the large - Police, the Local Health Service, City Council to the small - community and voluntary groups, employers and you! Through One Nottingham they break down the silo mentality and get “joined up” working together in six Theme Partnerships on Crime, Health, Children, Housing, Skills and Communities. In the jargon we are a Local Strategic Partnership, and so we intend to be what is says on the tin, local, strategic and above all a partnership.

If you want more details, calls us on 0115 934 9555 and we’ll send you “One Nottingham - One Plan”, which is the Community Strategy which we all signed up to and are now implementing. We will amend it and move it forward each year, so do send us any improvements you’d like to see.

What is a Local Strategic Partnership?

One Nottingham is a local strategic partnership (LSP) . It brings together the public, private, community and voluntary sectors based in Nottingham, so that every one living or working in the city has the chance to have their say about its future.

The Robin Hood Connection

We all know the tale of Robin Hood, stealing from the rich to give to the poor – well One Nottingham may not be quite in our legendary hero’s league, but it does aim to close the gap between the richest and poorest communities in our city, by improving the most disadvantaged areas.

Why One Nottingham?

Nottingham is sometimes seen as a “tale of two cities” one rich and prosperous, the other suffering hardship and deprivation. The city centre, with its wealth and cosmopolitan lifestyle is surrounded by some of the poorest communities in the country. One Nottingham’s goal is to narrow the gap between these areas, and to shape a better future for us all.

Why have a Local Strategic Partnership?

Nottingham has 13 wards (plus pockets of deprivation in other wards) that are within the 10% most deprived wards in the country.  This means that over 60% of the city’s population live in areas of deprivation. One Nottingham’s vision is to “reduce inequality, so that no one is disadvantaged by who they are or where they live”.