Appendix 14_AA Screening Report

Client:

Cork City Council

Date:

March 2024

Project Title: Cork City LECP 2024-2029 Document Title: Appropriate Assessment Screening Report

Document Issue: draft

➢ Create a responsive and resilient city by building strong interconnected and sustainable local health systems that can respond to local needs and threats to public health. ➢ Promote cross-sectoral working to achieve better health outcomes for the city through integrated health planning which addresses the social determinants of health and promotes health in all policies. ➢ Promote community development and participatory approaches to addressing health challenges that generate models of, evidence based, best practice. ➢ To support the HSE led enhancement and restructuring of health services in Cork city to ensure access to quality health care for all.

➢ To create spaces and places for health using a community placemaking approach.

HLG2: A City Built on Partnership, Inclusion and Equality

Objectives:

➢ Build inclusive, sustainable, and resilient communities where active citizenship is enhanced and encouraged for all to participate with a targeted approach to engaging those less heard. ➢ Build upon existing high level partnership collaboration across the community, voluntary and state and semi-state agencies within Cork city. Enhancing and affirming Inter-Agency Fora, as key vehicles to represent social inclusion, community, voluntary and environmental interests.

➢ Prioritising the needs of communities experiencing exclusion.

➢ Demonstrate a commitment to human rights, equality, integration, and anti- discrimination, paying particular attention to the responsibilities under the Public Sector Equality and Human Rights Duty. ➢ Strive to develop and implement national policies, strategies, and indicators relevant to inclusion, integration, and equality at a local level.

HLG3: A City of Learning and Culture

Objectives:

➢ Sustain the development of Cork as a UNESCO Learning City, using Education and Lifelong Learning approaches to support the delivery of all UN Sustainable Development Goals. ➢ Sustain and grow Learning City partnership structures and networks that involve all stakeholders in lifelong learning: Formal, non-formal, and informal. ➢ To empower and enable people of all ages, interests, and abilities to participate in and enjoy lifelong learning, the arts and creativity. ➢ To sustain and develop initiatives to remove barriers to participation in lifelong learning and cultural activities for marginalised and underrepresented groups.

➢ To optimise and extend arts and cultural infrastructure in the city.

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