Key Objectives
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Get the basics right:
- Conclude and implement the parking review
- Scrutiny review of policy on unadopted roads
- Update of winter service review
- Cleaner streets, tackling dog fouling, improved gritting etc.
- Consider reintroduction of minor works programme with ward/area delegations
- Rapid action to implement the agreed constitutional changes
- Continue constitutional development working group
- Immediate introduction of a protocol for public and councillor access to Cabinet
- Regular all-party briefings on key Cabinet issues
- Broadening the Forward Plan into a full working plan for Cabinet decisions
- Strengthen and develop ward forums
- Improve consultation on major policies – eg Halifax Masterplan,
- A “presumption of involvement” for ward councillors
- A constructive and pro-active role for Scrutiny Panels
- Prompt action to implement Ofsted and PwC action plans
- Ensuring every child at risk is allocated a social worker
- Strengthening preventive services including family support
- Better support to schools dealing with vulnerable children
- Continue to actively seek to promote employment initiatives through the work of the Council and through Economic Fighting Fund.
- Creating a genuine partnerships for Jobs, developed through Calderdale Forward, prioritising apprenticeships and skills training
- ‘Narrowing the gap’ through targeted support to communities and individuals most in need
- Protecting workers on low pay through the transformation process and budget review
- Put in place effective plan to promote tourism
- Developing a meaningful ‘zero tolerance’ anti-social behaviour policy
- Ridings School Site: To energise the process of finding new and innovative uses of this site and to engage with the partners who are waiting for the Council to bring them on board.
- Review and revise the Halifax Masterplan to reflect real local priorities and possibilities
- Sort out plans for Todmorden Town Centre
- Develop proposals for the Lower Valley
Develop plans for appropriate sustainable and affordable housing - Strengthen the network of Children’s Centres across Calderdale
- Build on the Government-funded programme of renewed play facilities
- Invest in imaginative youth activity schemes.
- Lead an effective review of secondary education, with a tight timetable
- Review and develop the recycling programme
- Develop an effective 10:10 action plan
- Develop affordable warmth schemes for hard-to-treat homes
- Actively participate in developing integrated transport systems
- Policy review of planning enforcement processes and priorities
- Effective enforcement on fly-tipping
- Review the Council’s use of regulatory powers (planning, licensing, environmental health, etc) to ensure that regulation is proportionate and effective
- Transformation and Change: To carefully plan the nature and profile of services within the context of potentially challenging budget constraints.
- Keep Council Tax as low as possible
- Review and revise ‘Vision into Reality’
- Launch all-party budget review and challenge process
- Review capital programme to redirect resources
Open Government and Effective Consultation. We want to end the climate of secrecy, and so will take decisions in an open and transparent way.
Key actions:-
Safeguarding and Care:
Tackling the Recession
Stronger Communities
Supporting Children and Young People
Climate Change and Environmental Action
Fair Enforcement
Change and Value for Money
