Our Community, Our Future:  A Social Integration Strategy for Blackburn with Darwen

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Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

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Blackburn with Darwen Borough Council

Our Community, Our Future: A Social Integration Strategy for Blackburn with Darwen

Blackburn with Darwen has been chosen by the government as one of the five areas to pilot local integration plans. This document is Blackburn with Darwen's strategy for promoting cohesion and integration going forward. The main priorities are: to increase economic prosperity for all the borough’s communities as an essential prerequisite for social integration; to strengthen relationships between the borough’s diverse communities; to build connections and strengthen relationships between young people who live in the borough’s diverse communities; To connect the borough’s disadvantaged communities to shared spaces – linking people and neighbourhoods to zones of employment, physical assets, community shared spaces and social action.