Craven Ward Plan 2022-2025

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Craven Ward priorities

Bradford District Priority Outcomes Ward Priorities
Better Skills, More Good Jobs and a Growing Economy
  1. Promote Personal Learning and Skills Development Opportunities for adults to address barriers to employment.
  2. Promote Virtual Learning pathways Young People to meet the demands of changing job markets.
  3. Promote access to Apprenticeship or Traineeship Schemes in support of future career development opportunities for young people.
Decent Homes
  1. Promote Home Energy Efficiency Schemes, Grant improvement programmes, Green Homes and low carbon emissions.
  2. Support Residents and families to live well in their own homes.
  3. Ensure affordable homes are accessible for a diversity of households.
Good Start, Great Schools
  1. Young people have access to activities they value and enjoy.
  2. Young people's social skills and knowledge are enhanced through involvement in holistic Informal Learning Programmes.
  3. Young People's Voices are at the centre of local decision making
Better Health, Better Lives
  1. Support a better experience of health care for local people.
  2. Improve Health and Well Being and reduce health inequalities by taking a preventative approach to help persons address their health, and health and well-being needs.
  3. Promote self-care in the community with a focus on living well at home.
Safe, Strong and Active Communities
  1. Promote activities encouraging residents and young people to take a pride in their area and the living environment.
  2. Liaise with Council Departments supporting residents to resolve any issues they have connected to the place or community where they live.
  3. Work in partnership with the Police, Agencies ad Partners to address incidents of ASB Anti-Social Behaviour /s to define problems, generate solutions and take action
A Sustainable District
  1. Promote Green / Eco Friendly Projects to help improve the environment.
  2. Reduce Air pollution in and around schools by adopting an anti-idling programme.
  3. Reduce the amount or organic waste going to landfill.

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Better Skills, More Good Jobs and a Growing Economy

Actions Outcomes Progress
  1. Support adults to improve their personal skills and development linking in with Skills and Employability Services CBMDC, VCS and contacting local employers about job creation in local settings.
  2. Support young people 16 to 24 years to access Digital, IT Training and Virtual Learning Courses in collaboration with Craven and Keighley Collages, Youth Service, VCS and Skills and Employability Services CBMDC.
  3. Support young people to access Traineeships and Apprenticeships to assist with future career and employment opportunities e.g. via Local Schools, Keighley and Craven Collages, Businesses and Skills and Employability Services CBMDC.
  1. Increased number of adults enrolled on employment and skills programmes.
  2. Increased number of young people engaged in Digital, IT and Virtual Learning courses.
  3. Increased number of young people engaged in Traineeship and Apprenticeship programmes.
  1. Number of adults engaged in Personal Skills Improvement Plans.
  2. Number of young people 16 to 24 years engaged in Virtual Learning to meet the demands of a changing job market.
  3. Number of collages and businesses offering places for Traineeship and Apprenticeship programmes to support career development of young people.

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Decent Homes 

Actions Outcomes Progress
  1. Engage with householders and provide information on Home Energy Efficiency Schemes and Grants, for example lagging loft spaces, solar power; using timers for heating systems. Domestic Energy Efficiency Support CBMDC.
  2. Collaborate with Incommunities social housing provider to address tenants housing issues and concerns as they arise and support tenants experiencing poverty or hardship.
  3. Engage with housing providers of new build homes schemes across the local area to provide energy efficient affordable housing for older people and families some on low income to meet their housing needs.
  1. More households adopting energy efficiency improvement plans for their home / property.
  2. More responsive services, maintenance programmes and housing support programmes implemented.
  3. More older people / families some on low income assisted in addressing their housing needs linked to new build schemes and housing programmes.
  1. Number of households making home energy efficiency improvements.
  2. Tenants perceptions and feedback on support received.
  3. Number of older people / families housed in new build properties.

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Good Start, Great Schools

Actions Outcomes Progress
  1. Develop a Youth Plan in Silsden working in partnership with the Town Council , local schools, Youth Service with a focus on youth voice and influence, healthy bodies / diet, mental health, disabilities and diversity.
  2. Encourage young people to undertake a volunteering role in community action projects working with Friends of Silsden Park, Addingham Environment Group, Project Local Schools, VCS and Youth Service.
  3. Establish a Youth Council in Silsden and partner with the Youth Service to encourage young people to become Youth Ambassadors to promote the voice of young people.
  1. More cohesive programmes of activities at a local level to support young people of all ages.
  2. Increased number of young people engaged and involved in wider community action projects.
  3. More young people taking a lead role in local developments and decision making at a local level – Youth Voice.
  1. Number of young people involved in activities programmes in local settings.
  2. Young people's feedback and perceptions of involvement in informal community activities.
  3. Young people's feedback on adopting a Youth Ambassador role and involvement in the Silsden Youth Council.

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Better Health, Better Lives

Actions Outcomes Progress
  1. Understand what projects/services are established in respect to the priority areas for the local area, for example. alcohol services, hidden deprivation, including child poverty, mental health, weight management.
  2. Link Wharfedale & Silsden Community Partners priorities to that of the system wide priorities for example Act As One Programme, Core20PLUS5, Primary Care Networks. Integrating a public health approach into primary care.
  3. Engage with service users to co-produce placed based changes with a focus on self- care in communities for example physical, mental, emotional, social health and well-being connecting with Social Prescribers', VCS, Act As One Programme, Core20PLUS5, Primary Care Networks.
  1. More effective information about what services and support programmes are available in local settings ensuring successful work is built on rather than duplicated.
  2. More effective engagement with Health and Health and Well-Being system wide programmes in support of service users to help address their health needs.
  3. Increased number of service users engaged with local services and health support programmes.
  1. % / number of service users supported in addressing their health needs.
  2. % / number service users reporting back on their experience in accessing services and information.
  3. % / perceptions and feedback from persons and families directly engaging with local placed based services.

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Safe, Strong and Active Communities

Actions Outcomes Progress
  1. Support residents to keep their communities clean and tidy by organising community clean-ups and encouraging volunteering with Friends Of and local environmental groups, Addingham, Silsden and Steeton with Eastburn .
  2. Collaborate with Waste, Gully, Street Lighting, Trees, Recycling, Flooding, Cleansing, Highways, Recycling Departments CBMDC to address issues affecting residents lives and the living environment.
  3. Work with the Police, Youth Service, Schools and local residents to address incidents of ASB in local settings.
  1. More positive engagement of communities; young people and individuals taking a pride in their area and community.
  2. Increased actions by Council Departments to address residents concerns and issues.
  3. Increase actions taken to address ASB issues reported by working in partnership and adopting a problem solving approach.
  1. Number of local clean-ups and environmental projects and action plans organised in neighbourhood areas.
  2. Number of Days of Action, Place based Issues addressed and Highways Schemes implemented.
  3. Residents and community perceptions and feedback.

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A Sustainable District

Actions Outcomes Progress
  1. Support greener environments with a focus on Eco Friendly activities and projects for example recycling, growing your own, plastic free, disposing of organic waste, working with local groups, schools, Addingham Environmental Project and VCS.
  2. Collaborate with local schools, local organisations to reduce traffic-Idling, traffic passing school streets, improving air quality, awareness raising, educational information, driver behaviours and turning off engines harmful effects of pollution and impacts on health.
  3. Establish a Community / Garden / Park Compost Project with residents, VCS, local schools to address the issue of organic waste disposal for example, fruit, vegetables, tea bags Addingham, Silsden, Steeton with Eastburn.
  1. More Eco Friendly projects developed across local neighbourhoods.
  2. Reduced volumes of traffic in and around schools, less traffic congestion, less air pollution supporting health and healthier environments.
  3. More people involved in compost production and reducing the amount of organic waste going to landfill.
  1. Number of local Eco Friendly projects delivered in neighbourhood areas.
  2. Number of schools and local organisations involved in the promotion of clean-air projects and programmes
  3. Number of people and organisations actively involved and adapting behaviours in disposing of organic waste.

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