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Our proud record of achievement

In just 2 years, we have delivered for our residents…

Tackling the cost-of-living crisis:

  1. Allocated and distributed nearly £10million in cost-of-living support to residents
  2. Millions of free meals created from 1000s of tonnes of food supplied to charitable organisations
  3. Council Tax reduction paid to more than 20, 400 working age residents and 7,400 pensioners – saving them more than £32million
  4. Nearly 50,000 resident visits to the Council’s Warm Hubs
  5. Froze Council Tax for ALL residents in year 1
  6. Introduced Council Tax Cost-of-Living Relief Fund for residents earning under £49,500 in year 2
  7. Provisioned for a Mayor’s winter emergency fund

Homes for the future:

  1. 22,000 formerly-THH properties brought back in-house
  2. 100s of homeless people supported into sustainable accommodation
  3. Rehoused multiple families into wheelchair accessible homes
  4. Targeting the delivery of 4,000 genuinely affordable homes by 2026
  5. £8m per year increase in the supply of Temporary Accommodation
  6. Launching ambitious programme to buy back 200 affordable council homes per year

Accelerate education:

  1. Universal Free School Meals for all primary (£2m) and secondary school children (£3.7m)
  2. Introduced £1,500 University Bursary for 400 students in year 1; increased it to 800 students in year 2
  3. Brought back EMA at £400 per year for 1,200 students in year 1; increased it to £600 in year 2
  4. Tens of thousands of children supported by the Early Help Children and Family Service
  5. Increased provision for SEND children by £730k in year 1
  6. £3m invested to improve SEND transport in year 2
  7. Created a £100k School high achiever awards – celebrating pupils who achieve high attainment and the parents and teachers who help facilitate it
  8. £15m to create an Institute of Academic Excellence, to help local young people get to world class universities.
  9. Roll-out of an £800k Community Languages programme

Empower communities to fight crime:

  1. Invested £4m to upgrade and install 350 CCTV cameras
  2. 8,000 additional uniformed police patrol hours funded by the Council (£1.5m)
  3. Recruited an additional 41 enforcement officers to protect the public (£2.9m)
  4. £1.6m approved to fund additional police
  5. 917 weapons disposed in our 4 amnesty bins, including 767 knives.

A clean and green future:

  1. £5m waste investment to tackle the waste emergency – including 72 additional frontline staff
  2. £185k to support local businesses to be more energy efficient
  3. Planted almost 3,000 trees
  4. £2.1m to improve recycling on housing estates
  5. £5m for electric waste vehicles and EV charging points
  6. £180k for low-carbon fuel supply

Invest in public services

  1. £13.7m per year invested in youth services, including one youth centre in every ward
  2. £3.5m 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.
  4. Creation of a £1.5m culturally-sensitive drug treatment centre
  5. Creation of a £20m culturally-sensitive adult care home (50-60 bed adult care facility)
  6. Opening of a £1.4m Women’s Resource Centre, providing health, educational and employment advice and benefits to local women
  7. Launching a Somali Resource Hub for the growing Somali population in the borough
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“We are delivering one of the most ambitious agendas in local government”.

We’ve made a good start, but there’s still much more to be done

  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.

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