Inclusive Kingston: Draft Commitments

Closes 29 Jun 2025

Opened 14 May 2025

Contact

Strategy and Partnerships Team

(Kingston Council)

020 8547 5000

strategy@kingston.gov.uk

Overview

Later this year we will publish a new Inclusive Kingston strategy that will set out our commitments for the next 4 years. 

We are pleased to share the draft commitments with you now which have been written using the insights that you shared with us last autumn alongside lots of research and best practice. 

We are deeply committed to working together to ensure that our borough is accessible, safe and a place where every voice is valued and celebrated.  

If you live, work or study in the borough, we would love to hear your views and thank you in advance for your time and consideration.

Please take a look at the three draft commitments below:

Draft Commitment 1

We are committed to deeply understanding the needs and experiences of our communities and working together to make change.

We will do this by:

  • Collaborating to collect, analyse, share and use data across the council and with partners
  • Being led by our community and partners to understand unmet needs and to meaningfully engage and communicate
  • Implement change using insights from complaints, compliments and member enquiries

Draft Commitment 2

We are committed to tailoring our approaches to meet the needs and address gaps for all our communities

We will do this by:

  • Thinking creatively and utilising new tools to overcome challenges that enable access to services when they are needed 
  • Evidencing how our services and policies identify need and reduce inequality 
  • Working closely with our partners to share insights, meet community needs and build resilience
  • Focusing on tackling poverty and socio-economic inequality in the borough

Draft Commitment 3

We are committed to being a proudly diverse borough which is accessible and safe

We will do this by:

  • Focusing on community cohesion alongside our partners to bring communities together, tackling discrimination, harassment and hate crime 
  • Ensuring accessibility and community needs are key priorities when designing and delivering our physical and digital infrastructure
  • Coming together to celebrate communities, heritage and achievements

 

Have your say

Areas

  • All Areas

Audiences

  • Anyone from any background

Interests

  • Children & young people
  • Community safety
  • Health and wellbeing
  • Neighbourhoods
  • Participation and Engagement
  • Volunteering
  • Early years
  • Primary schools
  • Secondary schools
  • Sixth Form/FE colleges
  • University
  • Adult education
  • Housing
  • Economic Development and Tourism
  • Voluntary, Community, Faith Sector