Fairer, Greener, Safer Southwark's Council Delivery Plan

Annual report 2023

Every year we produce an Annual Report to see how it is performing against the Council Plan. Many of the things that have been achieved would not have been possible without the support and hard work of the council’s partners including the health service, local voluntary groups and residents’ organisations.

We also recognise that our residents are still facing a number of challenges such as rising costs, while council services face reduced funding. Despite this, we are working together with our communities to rise to these challenges.

Over the last year, we have achieved a number of successes. Here are some of the highlights:

• around £30million spent to support over 100,000 households with cost-of-living issues, including free school holiday meals for over 14,000 children
• helped 941 residents facing significant barriers to get into work and created 568 apprenticeships and supported 6,500 residents into training
• took direct control of the borough’s eight leisure centres
• completed or started on site over 1,700 new council homes
• planted more than 8,000 trees
• launched our trailblazing Streets for People campaign to make our streets greener and safer and improve air quality
• launched our anti-misogyny campaign “In Her Eyes”, which had nearly 400,000 views on social media and is available to over 1,000 schools across London
• our Nest mental health support centre has helped 373 children, with 85% of schools taking up the service
• supported over 5,000 carers by working with Southwark Carers and other voluntary organisations
• our climate action strategy and plan was assessed as being among the best in the UK, showing our commitment to addressing the global climate emergency at a local level
• we launched Southwark 2030, our conversation with residents and organisations across the borough on how we want Southwark to look and feel by 2030, and set up the independent Land Commission to see how we can free up more land for public good

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Page last updated: 13 November 2023