External recognition and achievements
Pledge 1 – Improving health in Salford
Community Health and Social Care
- Adult Social Care services were assessed as 3 star performance by the Commission for Social Care Inspection
Pledge 2 – Reducing crime in Salford
Community Health and Social Care
- Salford Drug Action Team was awarded Green Beacon status by the National Treatment Agency
Housing and Planning
- DCLG quoting Salford City Council Housing Market Support in their national and regional press releases to encourage HMO landlords to become licensed
- Housing Market Support secured £140,000 from Safer Stronger Communities Fund in order to reduce crime and fear in Little Hulton and received a further £335,000 from the SSCF fund to spend on the Westwood Park area of Winton in order to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour
Pledge 3 – Encouraging learning, leisure and creativity in Salford
Children’s Services
- Family, Adult and Community Learning service was re-inspected in 2006 and found to have improved from being unsatisfactory to being satisfactory provision with some very good areas of teaching and learning
- Three high school and two primary schools rated by OfSTED as 'outstanding'
- Salford registered childminders rated as 'outstanding' by OfSTED and mentioned in HMCI's Annual Report
- Primary Partnership Centre rated as Good with Outstanding Features by OFSTED
Pledge 4 – Investing in young people in Salford
Children’s Services
- Ministerial acknowledgement of improved school attendance
- Fostering services inspections have been very positive
Pledge 5 – Promoting inclusion in Salford
Housing and Planning
- Seedley and Langworthy won gold in the Urban Regeneration category of Britain in Bloom
Pledge 6 – Creating prosperity in Salford
Housing and Planning
- City accepted on to housing PFI, ALMO and HMR programmes
- Design and leisure award of the Year for Salford Sports Village
- Community compliments for Worsley Road highway works
- Broughton Green development won awards for the Best Family Housing and Best Overall Development at the Manchester Evening News Residential Property Awards
- Secured the DCLG First Time Buyers Initiative funding of £5million to support the sale of 91 affordable properties on the Urban Splash scheme
- Strong recognition for Salford Housing Team at Annual Housing Conference in Harrogate
Pledge 7 – Enhancing life in Salford
Housing and Planning
- Development of Housing Connections Partnership delivering housing support services to vulnerable people
Supporting all pledges
Community Health and Social Care
- LGA – Employee of the Year Award – Julie Blagden, Community Services
Chief Executives
- Salford shortlisted for the LGC Most Improved Council of the Year Award 2007
- The Triathlon won Tourism Event of the Year [Manchester Tourism Awards 2006], best targeted campaign award in the Fresh Awards 2006, Silver Roses awards for best use of illustrations and best art direction in an advertising campaign and a special commendation award for best mixed media campaign in the Local Government Good Communications Awards 2006
- Charlestown/Lower Kersal NDC - winner of the regeneration category at the 2006 North West In Bloom Awards; Lower Kersal Young People’s project and Sports Village short-listed in RENEW’s best practice awards; Audit Commission cite Salford NDC Performance Management Assessment as good practice and overall performance rating of Partnership moved up to good
- National MORI survey of NDC’s shows that the percentage of Salford NDC residents that feel NDC has improved the area has increased from 22% in 2002 to 60% in 2006 (nationally, NDC’s improved from 33% to 57%)
Customer and Support Services
- Improved component scores for 2006 CPA use of resources assessment in maintaining the 3 star rating
- Local Government Chronicle 2006 Finance Award for Innovation
- Local Government Chronicle 2006 Finance Award for Best Exchequer Function - runner up
- Accountancy Age 2006 Public Sector Finance Team of the Year Award - runner up
- Local Government Chronicle Awards 2007 – shortlisted in the Finance category
- Achieved MOS academy status giving free access to training materials
- Achieved British Computer Society grade ‘A’ status for ECDL training and coordination
- Municipal Journal Legal Achievement Award 2006 – runner up
This page was last updated on 01 June 2007
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