Context of the plan: Our Manchester
The Our Manchester plan focuses on helping people to make the changes in their lives that will see them become more independent.
The approach doesn’t begin by asking ‘what’s wrong?’ as we often do as a council. Instead, it asks ‘what’s right?’ and ‘what matters to you?’
So Our Manchester becomes:
- a way people can develop into happier, healthier and wealthier people making a good life for themselves and their family
- proactive, pre-emptive and creative, focusing on a person’s or community’s strengths and opportunities
- a partnership of local people and organisations developing new answers to how we can deliver public services.
Asset-based
You’ll hear Our Manchester being called an asset-based approach. This assumes that everybody has something to contribute to make this a better city.
Different conversations
The Our Manchester Plan means a different relationship with colleagues, partners, people and places. This means listening to and observing people, then making judgements based on what we see and hear.
Behaviour change
Our Manchester is very much about how we challenge and change behaviour. It will mean a different, perhaps slower, way of delivering services, but if it takes a little more time and you get a better outcome, it’s time well spent.
Our Manchester, Our Children
Our Manchester, Our Children: Manchester’s Children and Young People’s Plan 2016–2025 outlines how children and young people matter in Manchester. It places children at the heart of its vision for Manchester to be in the top flight of world-class cities by 2025. It aims to open up new opportunities for our children and young people in the fields of education, work, leisure and family life. It is also a partnership plan, jointly held by all the city’s agencies and organisations that work with children and young people.
Our Manchester – building a safe, happy, healthy and successful future for children and young people.