Wellbeing in neighbourhoods

Stockport’s neighbourhoods are unique. They're brilliant, distinctive and diverse. They're the places we meet friends and bring up our families; the places we call home.

We want our neighbourhoods to be even better. Our ambition is for all of Stockport’s neighbourhoods to be clean, green, and safe places to live and visit. They should be welcoming and healthy environments for people to spend time together and access sport, culture and leisure.

Progress in 2024

Our ambitious neighbourhoods and prevention programme

We're reimagining how we work with communities and reforming public services through our Neighbourhoods and Prevention programme. We've developed neighbourhood profiles and launched Stockport Live Well online directories, which provide easy access to the range of services we offer.

One Stockport Family Hubs

Our redesigned model of family help has now been in place for a year. Over the past 12 months, One Stockport Family Hubs have brought existing help and support services and community offers together to create open access to information, help and support on all aspects of family life. We've established 7 family hub networks, 3 Family Hub buildings and 24 bridge sites to support families, from pregnancy through to adulthood.

Supporting independence

The Stockport Live Well offer for Adult Social Care continues to develop, with appointments on offer at libraries, leisure centres and council offices. The Virtual House and a wide range of information and advice is available online. Our bid to the Greater Manchester Combined Authority for supporting people with multiple disadvantages was also successful, and we anticipate to launch this from January 2025.

The Stockport £

We've continued to partner with Sector3 and businesses to maximise social value, connect regeneration benefits, and provide local jobs (94 work placements and 82 construction roles). We've also launched Match My Project to make sure we get the most out of our contracts.

Homelessness and rough sleeping

Challenges are being experienced across the region and the country as a whole and are not unique to Stockport. We're working closely with the GMCA, landlords and Stockport Homes to address the significant challenge of homelessness and to reduce the need to use hotels to accommodate homeless people and families.

Our key areas of focus over the next 2 years will be:

Neighbourhoods

We'll deliver our ambitious neighbourhoods and prevention programme, which involves:

  • supporting the people who work in communities to work as one team, regardless of which organisation they are part of

  • bringing people together in one space through neighbourhood networks and co-ordinators, to work with people, not ‘doing to’ people, or ‘doing for’ people

  • better understanding local areas through neighbourhood profiles and making sure people can access help and support when they need it

  • improving access to services, whether in person, over the telephone or through digital platforms

Thriving places

We'll create thriving places by:

  • opening up public buildings to communities and the Voluntary, Community, Faith and Social Enterprise (VCFSE) sector

  • working with businesses and residents to improve our district centres, and hold events and activities to boost footfall

  • working with residents to make it easier for people to travel around Stockport

  • working with communities to maintain and improve our amazing green spaces

  • promoting greener travel such as public transport, cycling and walking

  • delivering Stockport Moving Together to encourage healthy, physically active lives and enjoyment of culture and green space, with a focus on residents who struggle to be active

Connected communities

We'll support connected communities by:

  • co-creating, implementing and embedding Stockport Live Well hubs (including Family Hubs) and networks

  • bringing professionals and communities together to focus on what matters to our residents

  • providing support for people to become financially, digitally, and socially included to prevent and reduce the impact of poverty and social isolation

  • making sure professionals work together effectively to support people and families facing a wide range of challenges or crisis

  • further developing our libraries and leisure centres as community hubs with a range of activities and support on offer

Health and care

We'll deliver collaborative health and care by:

  • improving the experience of care for residents who transition between services like moving from hospital to community care or those who receive more than one service

  • reducing admissions to residential care and increasing the amount of supported housing in the borough

  • improving support for people who are frail or at risk of frailty, have diabetes, suffer from alcohol-related harm, or have cardiovascular disease

  • working collaboratively through multi-disciplinary teams and networks of professionals, local experts and service providers in each of our neighbourhoods so that people stay healthy, well and independent in their own homes and communities for as long as possible

  • targeting help and work with communities to reduce health inequalities

  • improving out of hospital urgent care services