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SUMMARY OF SENIOR COUNCIL PLANS AND WORK

key priorities   

Transport  & Access

20 plansCommunication & information

14 plansHealth & social care

10 plansFinance

9 plansCrime & safety

9 plans Housing

7 plans

Hospital transport.

•More Buses.

•Cheaper Rail.

•Better public transport & to and from outlying villages.

•Linked to bus passes.

•Access to places & services.

•Payment cards for all transport types.

•Improved bus stop and routes.

•More intelligent transport links

•Fuel costs.

•Travel at night.

•Taxi drop off points – too far for physical disability.•Good advice & information.

•Being listened to, sharing information.

•Forms in other languages.

•Co- ordination of existing groups.

•Sometimes too much choice.

•Respond to documentation rather than meetings.

•Older people’s views into plans.

•Info booklet about local services incl roles & provision.

•Wider involvement.

•Website/Parish Magazine.•Improving residential.

•Homes, respite care and day care.

•Increase number of Care Homes.

•Provision of Health and access to Dentists, prevention work.

•Person centered.

•Doctors and Health Service.

•Lack of rural GP.

•Home Help.

•Access to Health Services.

•24 hr access.

•Dignity in all forms of service provision.

•Cleanliness/

Hygiene.•Income/benefits/ Pensions.

•Form filling.

•Disposable Income.

•Affordability and Concessions.

•Encouraging benefit take-up.

•Maximisation for all.

•Complexity.

•Intimidation of forms.

•No funding for the elderly-Income decides what they can do.

•Drop-in centre for help in filling in forms and finance etc.

•Preservation of existing effective services (VCS) through statutory partnership funding.

•Fear of Crime Community Safety.

•Well-being & Security.

•Reduce/stop drunk and disorderly behavior.

•Drug use.

•Law & Order.

•Considerate parking and better police presence.

•Not enough Police on the beat.

•Feeling safe in your community.

•Anti-social behavior

•Senior Council and Youth Council to take issue forward.

•YOT – peer deduction = prevention.

•Bring into youth clubs.

•Planning of local housing to include affordable housing for elderly and young people alongside.

•Development of extra care housing.

•Future housing development putting pressure on infrastructure in town.

•Keep generational balance.

•More specific options to people on housing so that they can choose what is best for them.

•More appropriate housing for elderly.

Development of Senior council

8 plansTown planning

7 plansLeisure

6 plansEngaging with young people

6 plansEmployment

1 plan

•Build membership.

•Fully representative of the area.

•“Can do” group not moaning session.

•Raising profile meetings feed in planning cycles/ timeframe.

•Contributing to proposals for redevelopment.

•Special rates.

•Explore extension of Healthy Living Scheme.

•Voicing opinions of people that can’t attend meetings.

•More Publicity.•Pavements.

•Poor surfaces.

•Seating around town – standards poor and location.

•Regeneration – Community Centre.

•By-pass.

•More facilities.

•Post Office.

•Lack of dropped kerbs and poor condition of roads/pavements.

•Toilet closures.

•Buildings (e.g. Post Office).

•Refuse collection.

•Dog mess.•Access to information about services, leisure, ICT etc.

•Leisure Services.

•Evening classes too expensive and too vocational (not just for fun or leisure).

•Expansion of education, interest groups and a voice in the community.

•Need more local community facilities for learning, leisure etc. (Schools limited in suitability.)

•Further Education.

•IT Training.

•Voluntary Leisure.•Intergenerational working (what issues are prominent for both): * Police?

* Neighbourhood-  

 watch?

•Statutory agencies need to lead by offering opportu-nities:

* Schools;

* Surestart ;

* Youth Council;

* Senior Council;

* Away Day;

* Talks at schools.

•Local school – engage with older people-Senior council to contact local schools.

•Young people (community agencies) could work with isolated/ disabled people.•Older people need skills – not resulting in employment.

•60-70-80 help with skills.

Social isolation

4 plans

•Specific initiatives for those ‘isolated’ rural or otherwise.

•Older people are

often isolated and need practical help.

•Early detection of isolation or its impacts.

Accountability

1 plan

•Improving accountability/ helping make it possible to effect change.