Lutfur Rahman 40 achievements

1. Allocated and distributed £6.1m to support our most vulnerable residents from council and government funds
2. £31,5m in Council Tax reduction was paid to 35,172 resident accounts
3. 22,343 visits to the council’s warm hubs
4. 19,772 payments of £100 given to vulnerable families.

1. Almost 22,000 properties to be brought back in-house after 86% support by tenants and leaseholders
2. 227 homeless people supported into sustainable accommodation.
3. Rehoused 31 families into wheelchair accessible homes via our flagship Project 120 scheme.
4. Targeting the delivery of 4,000 — genuinely affordable homes by 2026.

1. ALL primary school children eligible for a daily free school meal (£2m), rolling out to secondary schools (£3.7m)
2. 400 young people to receive a Mayor’s University Bursary (£600k)
3. 803 young people to receive a Mayor’s Education Maintenance Allowance (£321k)
4. Increasing provision for SEND children
5. 17,783 children supported by the Early Help Children and Family Service.

1. £800k investment in community language provision
2. Rates relief for 834 businesses (£2m)
3. 919 enterprises supported by the council’s business programme.
4. £40m invested in leisure facilities, including bringing leisure centres under council management
5. 3,866 jobs, training/apprenticeship opportunities delivered.
6. 1 hr free parking to help market traders
7. Reintroduce 4 Parent Parking Zones.

1. 289 CCTV cameras have been upgraded to help capture evidence of crime and ASB (£200k)
2. 7,779 additional uniformed police patrol hours funded by the council (£1.5m)
3. Recruited 41 enforcement officers to protect the public (£2.9m)
4. £1.6m approved to fund additional police and bring back a community constabulary.

1. 13.7m invested in youth services including one in every ward
2. £4.5m for local voluntary and community sector through Mayor’s Community Grants
3. £2.5m to support free homecare for vulnerable adults
4. £1.1m investment in 5 Resident Hubs.

1. £500k invested to reopen Watney Market Idea Store
2. Around 500 people seen monthly over twice-a-week Mayor’s Surgeries
3. You said, we did: Life-Saving Equipment installed around the borough
4. Over 11k participants took part in 80 consultations
5. New Town Hall opened.

1. £185k to support local businesses to
be more energy efficient
2. 972 trees planted
3. £2.1m to improve recycling on
housing estates
4. £5m for electric waste vehicles and
EV charging points and
5. £180k for low carbon fuel supply.