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Community Safety
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Corporate Governance
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- Crime continues to fall – we have seen a 35% drop in crime over the last 7 years
- Community Payback contract with the Probation Trust has resulted in 7,600 free hours of work saving the Council over £85K
- Every 4 year old child in the Borough received a road safety pack helping to keep your children safe when walking
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- We have saved over £1m compared to our Budget for 2010/11. This is the 7th year that we have successfully balanced the books.
- Hyndburn Council did not increase its element of Council Tax in 2010/11
- Sickness absence levels at an all-time low saving the Council £155K
- 115 people were caught for benefit fraud and we are recovering the £379K they fraudulently claimed
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Economy
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Education
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- Accrington’s Victorian Market Hall was named the ‘Best Indoor Market’ in the UK following a £2 million refurbishment
- 95 local people benefited from the apprenticeship scheme run by the Council with Accrington and Rossendale College.
- Our Employment Information Pack provided advice to people who were looking for work
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- We are working with 7 Hyndburn students to help them obtain a Business and Finance Diploma
- 20 of our most vulnerable families have had intensive and co-ordinated support seeing real improvements in educational attainment and school attendance.
- We helped finance the first ‘eco classroom’ in the UK
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Environment
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Equalities
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- The Council was declared a ‘4 STAR’ authority by the British Cleaning Council for our clean streets.
- 35% of household waste is recycled and 93% of residents are satisfied with our recycling services.
- 4 of our parks were awarded the prestigious national Green Flag
- For successfully reducing harmful vehicle emissions we achieved the Energy Saving Trust’s ‘Gold Award’ for the second year running
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- We were assessed as being an ‘Achieving’ authority for our equalities work
- We gained funding to provide a state of the art disabled changing facility at Hyndburn Leisure Centre, enabling people with the most profound disabilities to enjoy swimming and other sports at the Leisure centre.
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Health
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Housing and Regeneration
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- Over 13,000 children benefited from free pitch hire, and over 450 adult matches continued to benefit from half price pitch hire.
- We gave out over 400 free crown green bowling passes.
- The Council invested a further £63K this year aimed at improving allotment provision, encouraging local food growing, promoting healthier lifestyles and encouraging community engagement.
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- The Acorn Park housing development got underway with 36 out of the first phase of 84 dwellings completed.
- We acquired 53 low demand or unfit houses taking the overall total to 501.
- We carried out a total of 133 Disabled Facility Grant adaptations to properties to enable people with a disability to remain in their own home.
- The Council and our partners prevented 251 households from becoming homeless.
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