2007/08 Plans against the Pledges
Pledge 1 – Improving health in Salford
Children’s Services
- We will assist young people to develop healthier lifestyles through the appointment of specialist smoking cessation and sexual health workers in the Youth Service
Community Health and Social Care
- Help a further 500+ people who have developed disabilities to have adaptations to their homes or move to more suitable accommodation
- Continue to provide home care support and community support to more than 3500 people to help them to live independently in their own homes
- Make direct payments to 260 people to arrange their own care to maintain their independence and continue to live in the community
- Provide support to people to live in appropriate residential or nursing homes, where such provision meets their need
- To continue to deliver more than 96% of equipment to help people live at home within 7 days
- Promote sport, leisure, physical and arts activities to enable and encourage more people, particularly children young people and older people, to participate regularly in activities that benefit their physical and mental health and wellbeing
- Continue work to improve cultural and leisure facilities in the city, including investment in sport and leisure facilities and within LIFT Centres in partnership with health agencies
Environment
- Encourage use of parks and open spaces including events to promote healthy life styles
- Continued involvement in healthy living through Eco schools programme
- Improve cleanliness levels across the city
- Improve maintenance standards in parks, allotments open spaces and play areas
- Explore possibility of increasing the use of bio fuels across the city
- Promotion of healthy eating choices and hygiene
- Promotion of personal and food hygiene
- Smoke free premises legislation implementation & enforcement
- Lead on Salford Tobacco Control partnership
Housing and Planning
- Implementation of ‘Choosing Health IN Salford’ programme
Chief Executive
- External marketing campaign on Tobacco Control to encourage people to seek support in giving up smoking, including coverage on the website
- New Deal working with the Primpary Care Trust to commission community health services from the new Willow Tree Healthy Living Centre
Customer and Support Services
- Continuing to support and participate in the LIFT project and maintaining health promotion exercises with the public including Fire assessment referrals
- Initiate developed into the establishment of an electronic home care monitoring solution
Pledge 2 – Reducing crime in Salford
Children’s Services
- We will develop a range of parenting programmes to provide support to parents of young people who are, or are at risk of, offending
- To support the new schools security post in reducing the incidence of crime against school buildings
Community Health and Social Care
- Commission and provide arts, sport, heritage and library services to help prevent anti social behaviour, offending and re-offending
Environment
- Continue to reduce environmental crime through education and enforcement
- Increasing the number of mobile CCTV cameras and employment of education and enforcement warden in SSCF area
- Contribute to crime reduction through responsive operational services on hard and soft landscape areas
- Partnership work with Greater Manchester Police and Department for Work and Pensions and other agencies to prevent counterfeiting and fraud
Housing and Planning
- Increase the number of licensed landlords and health and safety rating
- Produce new empty properties strategy
Chief Executive
- Delivery of a marketing strategy for the Crime & Disorder Reduction Partnership aimed at improving perceptions of crime
- Ensure that the Respect agenda is inculcated throughout the partnership
- Secure the delivery of National Floor targets, Salford Community Safety Strategy targets, Local Area Agreement and Local Public Service Agreement crime and disorder targets
- Support the development of the Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership to meet/exceed national standards
Customer and Support Services
- Implement a case management solution for the Youth Justice Board that fully integrates with youth offending institutions across the country
Pledge 3 – Encouraging learning, leisure and creativity in Salford
Children’s Services
- We will continue to reduce the number of young people who are known to be not in education, employment and training, with a target of 7.6% by November 2007
- We will continue to work to increase the number of young people who choose to stay on in full time education after leaving school, with a target of 70% for 2007
- We have applied to deliver the new specialised diplomas from 2008 and, if our application is successful, we will begin work to develop these new qualifications
- Continue to provide the necessary challenge, support, monitoring and intervention to enable schools and settings to provide the best for all children and young people
- Support schools and settings to improve the proportion of children leaving schools with five or more good GCSEs (or equivalent) including English and maths
- Continue to narrow the gaps between the highest performing schools and the lowest, so that all achieve aspirational targets relative to similar settings nationally
- The average number of days lost to unauthorised absence per pupil with unauthorised absence will be 18 or less by 2008
- Establish provision for children excluded from school within 6 days
- Establish a Behaviour Strategy for Salford
Community Health and Social Care
- Work in partnership with a wide range of organisations within and outside Salford to increase regular participation in a broad range of cultural, sport and leisure activities in Salford
- Continue to invest in improving the quality and range of cultural and leisure facilities throughout the city, fulfilling at least 90% of the Public Library Service Standards; maintaining planned rises of at least 5% in museum visitor numbers
- Publicise and promote Salford's arts, heritage, libraries and sport and leisure services, opportunities and experiences
Environment
- Develop and improvement of parks and playgrounds
- Creation and distribution of environmental education DVD and supporting material
- “Mission Possible” food hygiene and nutrition education for junior schools
- Programme of environmental and consumer education
Chief Executive
- Hold a Triathlon event in Salford in 2007
- Continue Industrial Heritage campaign
- Implement updated Tourism Marketing strategy
- Promote a range of cultural events with partners
- NDC plans to host an International Football Festival at Sports Village
Customer and Support Services
- Develop new Internet web sites for all Salford schools to improve access to student records, curriculum material and general school activities
Pledge 4 – Investing in young people in Salford
Children’s Services
- Launch a new service directory designed with and for 13-19 year olds
- Percentage of pupils with unauthorised absence will be reduced to 32% by 2008
- Establish provision for children excluded from school within 6 days
- Continue to work on the Building schools for the future initiative to transform secondary education in the city
- Develop a vision and strategy for implementation of the Primary Capital Programme
Community Health and Social Care
- Promote opportunities for young people to participate in arts, heritage, libraries and sport and leisure activities
- Continue to invest in cultural and leisure facilities and services that enable more young people to take part in activities
Environment
- Continued support of Eco schools programme, Salford Special Agents and Plan-it (Simulation programme)
- Link with YMCA to provide work place opportunity and training
- Provision of workplace experience places for young people across a range of services
Chief Executive
- Support the development of the Building Schools for the Future programme
- New Deal working with Children’s Services on the creation of two new Children’s Centres in the area
- To reduce the number of dependant children living in families reliant on working age benefits (12,600 to 11,833)
Customer and Support Services
- Implement a corporate Child Index in order to improve accessibility and communication of essential data to protect all children and improve their potential
Pledge 5 – Promoting inclusion in Salford
Children’s Services
- Establish provision for children excluded from school within 6 days
- Establish a Behaviour Strategy for Salford
- Continue to develop and implement a Family Support Strategy to increase the number of children supported living at home
- Implement a review of accommodation to ensure that services are located close to their clients in accessible buildings
Community Health and Social Care
- Continue to invest in arts, heritage, libraries and sport and leisure services to enable and encourage some of the most isolated, vulnerable and hardest to reach groups to participate in activities and access services
Environment
- Development of user-friendly parks and friends groups
- Develop Neighbourhood management network to access hard to reach groups
- Carry out impact assessments of directorate polices and procedures
Housing and Planning
- Delivery of minimum 2* Supporting People inspection
- Introduce choice based lettings
- Launch Elderly Persons Strategy
- Further develop the homelessness prevention strategy
Chief Executive
- Review the city's Neighbourhood Renewal Strategy
Customer and Support Services
- Provision of a Nationality Checking Service
Pledge 6 – Creating prosperity in Salford
Community Health and Social Care
- Work with other agencies and organisations to support growth within the city's cultural and leisure sector to increase jobs and investment in Salford and opportunities for local residents
- In partnership with others work on cultural and leisure projects that support the regeneration of areas within Salford.
Environment
- Improving the quality of the local environment
- Promotion of sustainable waste management practices – recycling composting
- Provision of business advice and guidance
Housing and Planning
- Continued development of MediaCityUK / BBC
- Developments including Exchange Greengate / Irwell City Park / Salford Reds Stadium / Port Salford / Racecourse / Building Schools for the Future Chapel Street ECF / Higher and Lower Broughton / Salford Forest Park
- Continued regeneration of Central Salford
- Continued implementation of stock options programme and ballot for stock transfer
- Development of core strategy
- Develop a fit for purpose housing strategy
Chief Executive
- Support the delivery of the Urban Regeneration Company's Business Plan and Vision and Regeneration Framework
- Support the relocation of the BBC and development of MediaCityUK by leading and co-ordinating the MediaCityUK People Programme
- Finalise the Salford West Strategic Regeneration Framework and Action Plan and develop implementation arrangements and the 10 year strategy / action plan for the Liverpool Road corridor
- Support the implementation of the NDC Delivery Plan and Development Framework
- To successfully relocate 25 companies moving into or remaining in Salford
- To reduce the number of benefit claimants in City Strategy wards by 630
Customer and Support Services
- Introducing an internet-based system to improve access for local businesses to tender for council services
- Develop ICT initiatives aimed at the business community including automated invoicing, tendering, procurement and single point of contact
Pledge 7 – Enhancing life in Salford
Environment
- Development of parks and open spaces
- Promotion of sustainable waste management practices – recycling composting
- Explore possibility of increasing the use of bio fuels across the city
- Investigation incidents of pollution and regulation of Salford businesses
Housing and Planning
- Delivery of decent homes programme
Chief Executive
- Develop business case for 2008/11 HMR programme funding and influence future governance arrangements
Customer and Support Services
- Introduce online library catalogue and leisure booking facilities
- Support ICT facilities and solutions within the ‘Lift’ centres
Supporting all pledges
Children’s Services
- Development of service reviews for those services supporting schools so that services are continuously improving and meeting the needs of schools
- Continue the development of purchase cards
Chief Executive
- Local Area Agreement delivered and Year 1 milestones and targets met
Customer and Support Services
- To implement improvements to customer access to ‘Building & Development control’ by developing new telephone and web based solutions
- To improve the ‘employability’ of Salford citizens by providing a single point of contact to employment opportunities and by creating collaborative opportunities between partners
- To implement a common high speed ‘wireless’ digital network providing greater access to ICT for citizens, business and the school estate
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This page was last updated on 14 July 2008
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