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The TEN strategic themes...
1. RAISING HEALTH The aim is to establish a Health Inequalities Commission to develop proposals to improve the health of the city. The commission’s first phase will focus on mental health. It is a significant issue for Glasgow, both for those not in work and in work. It is the single biggest factor in terms of ill health and disability in Glasgow, compounded by poverty.
2. SKILLS FOR ALL The City will continue to deliver the Glasgow Guarantee, ensuring every young person gets support in the form of work, training or an apprenticeship. Employability support will be focused on those furthest from the market.
3. A FAIRER GLASGOW The City will use the Glasgow City Deal to tackle inequalities by placing inclusive growth at the heart of its master-planning process. A Fairer Glasgow Employer Award will be introduced, while efforts will be made to introduce more co-operatives and social enterprises.
4. SUPPORTING OUR KEY SECTORS Glasgow will focus its economic development efforts on the key sectors of: Digital Technology; Finance and Business Services; Creative Industries; Low Carbon; Health and Life Sciences; Engineering, Design and Advanced Manufacturing; Tourism and Events and Higher and Further Education. The City will also launch a Retail Action Plan, sitting alongside the City Centre Strategy and in partnership with the City Centre Retailers’ Association.
5. INNOVATION/HIGH VALUE EMPLOYMENT Glasgow will press ahead with four types of innovation: product, process,
marketing and organisational. The City will commit to innovating ways to more deeply engage citizens though the Centre for Civic Innovation, while the City of Science Board will be relaunched as the City of Science and Innovation Board bringing together public, private and academic sectors.
6. SMART INFRASTRUCTURE INVESTMENT Glasgow will develop proposals for a Glasgow Infrastructure Fund for capital investment in the city. This will exploit opportunities created by the City Deal. It will mean the revitalisation of the City Centre, the Clyde Waterfront and the West End Innovation Quarter. It will also mean the transformation of Sighthill, and investment in the Calton/Barras area.
7. HOUSING MIX Glasgow will build 25,000 new homes and call for the Scottish Government to reinstate the Vacant and Derelict Land Fund, bringing derelict land back into sustainable use.
8. SUPPORTING ENTERPRISE The city will support growing businesses in the high-growth innovation hub at the Tontine Building at Glasgow Cross, supporting 153 companies over the next five years.
9. LINKING EDUCATION TO EMPLOYMENT OPPORTUNITIES Glasgow will work to increase the number of young people gaining qualifications in IT, providing support for coding in primary schools.
10. INCREASING OUR POPULATION Glasgow will also lobby the UK Government to change the post-study work visa policies to enable the city to increase its population and retain talent.
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