Southwark's fairer future promises

1. Provide improved value for money and keep council tax increases below inflation. 

2. Work with residents and the police to make the borough safer for all by cracking down on antisocial behaviour and implementing our new violent crime strategy.

3. Deliver the first three years of our five year plan to make every council home warm, dry and safe.

4. Improve our customer service with more online services, including delivery of a better housing repairs service, independently verified by tenants. 

5. Introduce free healthy school meals for all primary school pupils, and champion improved educational attainment for our borough's children.

6. Support vulnerable people to live independent, safe and healthy lives by giving them more choice and control over their care.

7. Encourage healthy lifestyles by transforming Burgess Park, opening a new swimming pool at Elephant and Castle and awarding £2m to local projects to leave a lasting Olympic legacy.

8. Open Canada Water library in autumn 2011, open a library in Camberwell and conduct a thorough review of the library service.

9. Bring the full benefits and opportunities of regeneration to all Southwark's residents and build new family homes on the Aylesbury Estate and at Elephant and Castle.

10. Double recycling rates from 20percent to 40percent by 2014 and keep our streets clean.

Every area of the council has come forward with key activities that reflect how we will achieve our vision within the limited resources we have (the most important of which have been identified through the ten promises above).

These key portfolio activities are captured through a series of priority statements from each cabinet member. The statements are supported by more detailed delivery schedules of actions and targets.