Strategy Integration and Development

Ten major challenges facing communities in Yorkshire and Humber have been identified in a key document aimed at helping steer crucial decisions on how and where to spend hundreds of millions of pounds in the region.

Organisations across Yorkshire and Humber have helped draw up the Integrated Regional Framework, one of the region’s key policy building blocks, which aims to pull together key initiatives affecting the five million people who live here.

The IRF, titled “Growing Together’’ and launched at yesterday’s Yorkshire and Humber Assembly AGM in Wakefield, will help provide the framework to help regional and local bodies plan their work in a more joined up way, enabling the best use of resources to benefit people right across the region.

While the Assembly, Yorkshire Forward and Government Office for Yorkshire and the Humber will help steer the overall framework, local authorities, businesses and organisations in all sectors across the region will be responsible for co-ordinating delivery to local communities at ground level.

It identifies the ten challenges, sets out the direction the region needs to take and details what the region needs to do more of, or do differently in the future to make progress against that challenge. It will also form the basis for measuring how the region is progressing:

The challenges are: sustainable transport; climate change mitigation; climate change adaptation; productivity and innovation; higher level skills and education; housing markets and affordability; public health and obesity; violent crime; diversity and equality and regional growth.

The IRF, which has been produced following an extensive two year consultation with regional partners, merges existing frameworks Advancing Together and the Regional Sustainable Development Framework and sets out the key sustainable development issues facing the region.

The work has been geared towards a ‘challenge’ remit, encouraging the region to take further action to address these issues and to help regional bodies – including local councils, businesses and other agencies – plan their work in a more joined up way, allowing for a better use of resources.

You can download your copy of the IRF below. For more information, contact us.