The Labour Party in Croydon

Labour: fighting for you across Croydon and Sutton

 

Empowering residents and communities

Croydon Labour is proud of the richness and diversity of the local community, and is committed to equality and fairness.

Are you fed up of a council that does not listen? Do you want more control over the local services that you pay for? A Labour council will strengthen democracy in Croydon and make the council more responsive to your needs. Furthermore, a Labour council will strengthen local communities by involving them in the running of public services.

Croydon Labour will:

• ensure that residents have a more powerful say over local services. An example of this is in personal care. Residents in Coulsdon have got together to form a care co-operative that improves personal care and ensures that the staff work with a regular group of clients who direct their own care using Direct Payments, an initiative of the Labour Government

• ensure that local communities have a say in their local schools by setting up ‘Co-operative School Trusts’. This will encourage communities to come together, helping to reverse the Conservative Council’s policy of ignoring the views of local communities by allowing schools to fail, and then transferring them to outside companies with no ties to Croydon

• empower local people to take real ownership of local leisure and community facilities, by introducing the community trust model, where local people and users will have a real say in how their facilities are run

• An example of our commitment is in Upper Norwood where we have signed a new Library declaration. We will support this jointly funded library (Croydon and Lambeth) fairly and build on its already strong community links with greater control by users and local residents