Good Relations
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. These principles are good relations issues in the District which are 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 views 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:
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
View the Council Good Relations Strategy
Find information about Good Relations Funding
