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Keighley East Ward Plan 2022-2025

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Keighley East Ward priorities

Bradford District Priority Outcomes Ward Priorities
Better Skills, More Good Jobs and a Growing Economy
  1. Promote Keighley East as a place where people want to live and work
  2. Support opportunities for apprenticeships
  3. Promote volunteering opportunities
Decent Homes
  1. Ensure residents have sufficient knowledge of where to access information and services
  2. Upskill Councillors and staff supporting tenants
  3. Ensure private tenants are supported
Good Start, Great Schools
  1. Support schools with a visible presence
  2. Ensure there is a local Youth offer
  3. Support initiatives around school readiness
Better Health, Better Lives
  1. Support the work of other statutory agencies to promote good health
  2. Support local initiatives around health
  3. Promote the use of the local open spaces including parks
Safe, Strong and Active Communities
  1. Support local Police in delivering reduction to anti-social behaviour and drug crime.
  2. Work with local agencies to support volunteering opportunities
  3. Support initiatives to ensure people feel safe in the community
A Sustainable District
  1. Support awareness of opportunities for recycling and environment issues
  2. Promote and encourage local clean ups
  3. Ensure opportunities are maximised for funding applications

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Better Skills, More Good Jobs and a Growing Economy

Actions Outcomes Progress
  1. Support local community by seeking opportunities to promote job clubs, CV writing
  2. Work with Keighley College, Bradford Council and local businesses to offer more apprenticeships.
  3. Work with local volunteer agencies to promote more volunteering opportunities
  1. More opportunities for individuals to apply for work
  2. More work opportunities and upskill workers
  3. Volunteering can be utilised to obtain skills for work
  1. Engagement data with events
  2. College and council data
  3. Volunteer database

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Decent Homes 

Actions Outcomes Progress
  1. Work with local housing providers to ensure tenants have opportunities to voice their concerns
  2. Upskill Councillors and staff supporting tenants, by arranging a workshop in Keighley East
  3. Understand what is available to support private rented tenants
  1. Tackling of poor housing standards in private rental market
  2. Elected members can interpret legislation to support members of the public
  3. Better housing standards
  1. Amount of landlords signed up to scheme
  2. Reduction in complaints, resident feedback
  3. Resident feedback and Median energy efficiency data (England 66 KC band 55)

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Good Start, Great Schools

Actions Outcomes Progress
  1. Ensure local wardens are linked to specific schools
  2. Work with Youth Service to ensure sufficient young people's forums and panels
  3. Keighley Imagination library to support free books for under 5's
  1. Strong community engagement
  2. Young people will participate more
  3. Children at age appropriate levels entering education
  1. Updates from Wardens
  2. Session data
  3. Participation numbers

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Better Health, Better Lives

Actions Outcomes Progress
  1. Work with Public Health to support their Living Well Programme
  2. Support Keighley Healthy Living to work in Keighley East Communities
  3. Work with Parks to ensure equipment is accessible for all
  1. Longer life expectancy, more healthy years
  2. Reduction in food bank use. Improved self esteem of users
  3. More healthy lives for all
  1. Increase in life expectancy (KC 75)
  2. Membership numbers increased as a ratio to food bank use
  3. Increased number of site users

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Safe, Strong and Active Communities

Actions Outcomes Progress
  1. Identify anti-social behaviour and drug crime hotspots and ensure a partnership approach is in place to tackle long term issues
  2. Work with ROC, People Can, Keighley College to encourage volunteering opportunities
  3. Work with Police to identify places where people do not feel safe
  1. Better quality of life
  2. Increased community participation, increased pride in place, healthy active lives
  3. People feel safer
  1. Crime statistics
  2. Number of events
  3. Crime and Council data

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A Sustainable District

Actions Outcomes Progress
  1. Support opportunities for recycling and identify areas requiring further education
  2. Ensure members of the public are supported at Clean ups and work with local community groups to encourage more pride in their area. Encourage identification of 'grot spots' and plan events at these locations
  3. Ensure opportunities are maximised for funding applications
  1. Greater understanding and engagement with environmental issues
  2. Council land, Parks and Greenspaces more biodiverse
  3. Better funded and managed environmental and green spaces
  1. Improved recycling rates
  2. Collated number of events
  3. Increased usage of open space