Background
In January 2019, the Council agreed a Grenfell Recovery Strategy, which set out our plans to support long-term recovery for the bereaved, survivors and the local community.
The Council committed £50m to support the strategy over 5 years (from 2019/20 to 2023/24). In December 2020, the Council’s Leadership Team agreed a Grenfell Recovery Resourcing Framework. Building on the original strategy, this set out our plans to work with bereaved and survivors, residents and community partners to shape the remaining three years of the Grenfell Recovery programme (from April 2021 to March 2024).
We publish information regularly about the programme and in May 2023, we published our second annual report on the delivery, reach and impact of the Grenfell Recovery Programme.
- Progress on delivery, reach and impact
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Annual report on the delivery, reach and impact of the Grenfell Recovery Programme
We recently published the second annual report on the reach, delivery and impact of the Grenfell Recovery programme. The report shows the range of work underway across the programme since the autumn 2021 and provides information about who it is reaching and what difference people feel it is making.
The Grenfell Recovery programme is supported by the Council but it is made possible by our community partners. Since the start of the recovery programme in 2019, over 100 local organisations have contributed to deliver projects and services. This report celebrates their hard work, creativity and commitment. We are grateful to the thousands of people who have shared their feedback with us to help us improve services.
Key headlines from the programme:
Since the previous annual report was published in March 2022, we have been working with bereaved, survivors and local people to adapt existing Grenfell Recovery services and launch new projects. These include:
- Six projects for children and young people and six peer support programmes for adults to expand the support available in the community. Overall, the health and well being support has been accessed by 2337 children and young people in schools and community settings, and by 1148 adults between October 2021 and September 2022
- A North Kensington Inclusion Project which aims to promote school inclusion and tackle school exclusions, and supported 51 children in schools across the 2021/22 academic year. All of the 12 children who had completed the programme at the end of the year were significantly less at risk of exclusion
- An Employment and Skills programme to support the employment and skills ambitions of North Kensington residents which supported 140 individuals between April and December 2022. Of those, 18 were supported into finding new jobs, 19 were supported to access further vocational training / university and 6 were supported to increase their hours at work.
- 1334 individuals took part in Grenfell Projects Fund 2 programme which launched in June 2022. 78% of the participants who completed a survey rated the activity as brilliant.
- 736 bereaved and survivors are accessing the Dedicated Service. Of those, 75% feel they have made at least some progress in areas that matter most to them.
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More work is needed on other areas of the programme where less progress has been made, including the Housing Legacy projects, The Curve Legacy Fund, the next round of the Community Leadership Programme and wider monitoring of key indicators.
We are also working on further improving the information we gather about the programme and the difference people feel it is making. Next year's report will focus on progress and key themes and lessons from the programme but will also include information about future work on post 2024 support as part of the Restorative Justice programme and plans to take forward the wider Grenfell Legacy feedback about change at the Council.
If you have any question or comment, please contact us: [email protected].
Community updates
If you want to find out more about the Recovery programme, you can email: [email protected]
For more information about Grenfell Recovery Resourcing Framework, please read below the community update we have produced.
- Grenfell Recovery Resourcing Framework
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In December 2020, the Council’s Leadership Team agreed a Grenfell Recovery Resourcing Framework. Building on the original strategy, this set out our plans to work with bereaved and survivors, residents and community partners to shape the remaining three years of the Grenfell Recovery programme (from April 2021 to March 2024).
In the Resourcing Framework we committed to:
- Increasing community involvement in the Recovery programme, renewing our commitment to community-led recovery;
- Improving the reach and impact of Grenfell Recovery initiatives, ensuring they are as inclusive as possible;
- Working with the community to ensure that we can establish a long-term sustainable legacy from the Grenfell tragedy that is meaningful to local people.
- Grenfell Recovery Strategy
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The Grenfell Recovery Strategy was agreed in January 2019 and sets out the Council’s plans to support a community-led recovery for the bereaved, survivors and the local community.
It commits £50m over five years to deliver a number of services and initiatives to ensure that residents have the support, skills, and new opportunities they need to help their recovery. This includes dedicated support for bereaved and survivors and support to the wider community, including targeted emotional health and wellbeing services and initiatives to build on community capacity.
The strategy was shaped by national and international evidence on disaster recovery and the wide range of engagement activity which has taken place since the tragedy.
The strategy sits alongside the recovery efforts of a wide range of partners, including the NHS, the Government, schools and local employers, local voluntary and community organisations and, most importantly, residents themselves.
The NHS has committed £50m and developed its own strategy to support recovery. Read more about it on the NHS website.
Alongside the Recovery Strategy, the Council’s Public Health team is leading work to monitor the health of bereaved and survivors, first responders and the local community.
In addition to targeted support for the bereaved, survivors and those affected in the local community, the Council is delivering a range of initiatives to support the broader recovery through every day services and to change the way we work with our communities. This includes a new Economy Strategy, Live Work and Learn, a Housing Strategy and a new People Strategy.
Below you can find the Grenfell Recovery Strategy and summary.
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