You Decide! at Docklands Sailing Centre (LAP 8)
2009
Thank you to all 108 residents who took part
in You Decide! at Docklands Sailing Centre on Monday 16 March.
During the event participants heard about 33
extra council services and projects available to buy to improve
their neighbourhood and other residents’ lives.
Find out more about the services and
projects participants chosen from to help improve local areas.
(pdf, 890 kb)
Here’s how you decided
With the £280,000 of council cash - £140,000
for Millwall, Blackwall and Cubitt Town (LAP 8) participants voted
on the best way to spend the money to benefit their local community
in Mill wall, Blackwall and Cubitt Town.
Here are the extra council services and
projects participants wanted in the order they were voted for
them:
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Early GCSE in Mother
Tongue
For children from the age of 11 to 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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Youth Inclusion Programme
This programme will help to prevent 13-17 year
olds at risk of entering the criminal justice system, by working
with 75 teenagers.
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£50,000
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Extra Police Officer (2
yrs)One additional Police Officer to enhance the strength
of the Safer Neighbourhood Team (SNT). The officer will work from
the base used by the SNT
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£80,000
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Youth Inclusion and Support
PanelThe panel will work with 30 children aged 8-13 who
have become know to the police or council’s youth offending team
and may have anti-social behaviour warnings or acceptable behaviour
contracts.
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£35,000
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Extended Learning (per
school)This will provide out of school study support to
cover a wide range of learning activities outside normal lesson
time. Young people can participate in this voluntarily.
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£18,000
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Permanently Improving CCTV
CoverageThese are various options to improve CCTV
coverage. Some allow real time live monitoring at the CCTV control
centre. Some systems record and are accessed by the CCTV control
room.
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£35,000
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Family learning (per 10 week
course)Free family learning course will be organised by
the council’s Lifelong Learning team to provide parents,
grandparents and carers with the skills they need to encourage
their child to learn at home.
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£7,500
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ASB Enforcement Day (per
operation)Enforcement days are highly visible operations
that bring together enforcement teams across a range of disciplines
and partner agencies such as the police, London Fire Brigade and
DVLA into areas that have been highlighted as needing
resources.
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£10,000
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Litter Pickers (team of
4)
To do a one off ‘spring clean’ to remove built
litter and recycle where possible.
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£8,000
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Shrub Beds (45 metres)
To provide 45 metres of new and refurbished
shrub beds in parks and open spaces and various bulbs,
roses, ground cover and climbing plants
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£1,500
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