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The objectives of the Woking Partnership are:
- To identify opportunities for community leadership in addressing the issues that affect the quality of life for everyone who lives in, works in or visits Woking.
- To develop and co-ordinate the Sustainable Community Strategy for Woking, ensuring that it reflects local needs and priorities and links/integrates with the Surrey Sustainable Community Strategy.
- To ensure that the Community Strategy is delivered and is effective as the basis for the Woking Local Development Framework and Housing Strategy
- To provide a framework for partners and appropriate bodies to plan and work together to address key issues and local problems.
- To maximise the use of existing resources across all sectors and maximise the use of available funding and resources from local, regional, national and European sources for the benefit of Woking.
- To contribute to the principles of Sustainable Development.
- To effectively engage with and listen to the community and communicate plans and achievements through involvement, consultation and communication.
- To discharge the statutory responsibility of the Borough's Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership (The Safer Woking Partnership) and for that purpose:
- to act jointly to seek to reduce crime and disorder in the Borough
- to develop and co-ordinate the activities of the partners in implementing the Community Safety Strategy
- to assist and enable the responsible authorities to exercise their functions under section 17 of the Crime and Disorder Act 1998
- to make decisions about priorities, programmes, initiatives and the allocation of resources