Public health news: Local Area Coordination
Making our communities front and centre of everything we do.
Public health news: March 2024
South Tyneside and partners are developing an exciting new community approach called Local Area Coordination.
Through this approach, our communities will be front and centre of everything we do.
This approach also supports the Council's vision 'for people to live in the place they call home, with people and things they love, in communities where people look out for one another'.
What is Local Area Coordination?
Find out at LAC Network.
How it works
The local area coordinator is recruited together with the input of local people.
Once in post the coordinator will meet with local people, building connections through trusted relationships in their neighbourhood.
This creates the conditions where people feel able to open up about what a good life would look like for them, and any current issues and barriers that are stopping that, before planning the actions needed to make change happen.
Local Area Coordinators walk alongside people, encouraging them to recognise their own capabilities, gifts, community networks, and the practical resources they already have around them, before considering more formal supports and services.
To see this in practice watch Glynn's Story.
Progress
We have identified 3 areas in South Tyneside where we will test and learn this exciting new approach, they are Primrose, Whitburn & Marsden and Biddick & All Saints.
We have just recruited our first coordinator for the Primrose area who will be starting with us middle of February, and we are working at pace in the other two areas to get them up and running soon.
I'm looking forward to introducing you to our new Primrose Local Area Coordinator in the next addition of Healthier Times so... 'watch this space'.
For more information on Local Area Coordination in South Tyneside contact: