You Decide! at Kingsley Hall (LAP 6)
More than 110 local residents took part in You Decide! at
Kingsley Hall.
Street lighting improvements, new CCTV Cameras, and the chance
for youngsters to take a language GCSE early - these were just some
of the additional services Mile End East and Bromley-by-Bow
residents voted for when they took part in You Decide! last
Saturday (30 January 2010).
Residents in Mile End East and Bromley-by-Bow voted for
the following projects:
Item purchased
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Cost
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Street Lighting
improvements
This means the level of lighting will be
improved. Trees will be cut back were they block the light,
lanterns will be cleaned and light bulbs replaced before they fail.
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£15,000
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Early GCSE in Languages
This will mean children from the age of 11 can
learn languages such as: Bengali, Arabic Turkish, Chinese and Urdu
and take their GCSE exam early.
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£35,000
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Family Learning ESOL
This project will provide a programme of
Family Learning activities over the summer for parents and
children.
The programme will be for parents with low
levels of English.
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£7,500
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Older people’s ‘Handyperson’
The service is made up of a team of handy people who will provide
three different types of service:
• general handyperson services
• home security and
• accident prevention
All of these services involve carrying out
practical tasks for older people in their own homes.
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£10,000
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Targeted Policing
Operations
This project will allow Safer Neighbourhood
Teams (SNTs) to conduct additional work outside their normal
working hours. The project will give the SNTs the capacity to
respond on the day to anti-social behaviour (ASB) related incidents
and crime and pull in additional policing resources from elsewhere
on the borough.
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£35,000
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Reducing alcohol’s harm in young
people, older people and A&E attendees
Working with young people to develop messages
about the harms of alcohol.
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£35,000
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Youth Inclusion Programme The
Youth Inclusion Programme (YIP) is delivered by youth workers, and
is part-funded by the Youth Justice Board. The YIP provides
preventative programmes for teenagers who are truanting, involved
in anti-social behaviour and offending within their
neighbourhoods.
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£50,000
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Youth Inclusion and Support
Panel: This programme will help to prevent 8-13 year olds
from entering the criminal justice system, by working with 75
teenagers.
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£35,000
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One to One small group tuition for
GCSE students This project would provide £10,000 to each
secondary school in Tower Hamlets to
give more individual tuition and small group
help to 15 and 16 year olds as they work towards their GCSEs.
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£10,000
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Day Trips This project buys
one day trip per month, using up to 2 coaches each time
(Approximately 100 people from each area).
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£10,000
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New CCTV Cameras
The project will provide an additional CCTV
camera or cameras at locations identified by the community as an
area of need.
The CCTV camera will be managed and monitored
by Tower Hamlet’s CCTV
Control Centre.
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£30,000
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Pampering Days
This project will involve running a number of
‘pampering days’ at The Atrium ,
Tower Hamlets College.
On these days older people will have the
opportunity to enjoy the spa, manicures or pedicures, get their
hair washed and cut, as well as lunch.
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£1,500
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Total:
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£274,000
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