Our Approach

Southwark’s approach to community engagement:

Successful community engagement improves the policies and programmes of the council. Placing our communities at the heart of everything we do, recognising the knowledge and expertise held by local people about their lives and the services and amenities they use means we will be better placed to create services and policies that meet the needs of people in the borough. The principles that underpin all our engagement both online and offline are:

We will put people at the heart of engagement through engagement that is: built on trust, inclusive, and collaborative.

We will plan our end to end engagement effectively through practice that is: reflective, timely, proportionate, and evidence based.

We will deliver meaningful engagement through being: simple & accessible, clear and informative and responsive.