The service and cross - cutting service areas for which Beacon Status will be awarded are sharply focused and drawn from more general themes such as:
- Tackling crime and improving community safety;
- Providing local people with the best possible education;
- Improving the health of the local community;
- Providing the best possible housing services for local people;
- Ensuring that older people have active, independent and secure lives;
- Tackling social exclusion;
- Providing effective and efficient social services.
