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SFL102 - Review Children's Centre Provision
Outline of Proposal Rochdale borough currently has 16 Children’s Centres which deliver integrated Early Childhood Services to comply with the Apprenticeships, Skills, Children and Learning Act 2009 and the Childcare Act 2006. This proposal sets out a new way of delivering Children’s Centre services across the borough which will meet our legislative duties and ensure services are provided for families with the greatest need. The model will be a hub and spoke model based on a merger... MoreClosed 12 December 2012 -
CC110a - Book Fund
Outline of Proposal In 2011-12, 978,209 items were issued from the borough’s libraries. The total replacement value of the stock holding for the library service, including books and other resources is just over £3.5 million. In the light of the significant strain on Council resources we are proposing to permanently remove £38,000 from the existing book fund budget, leaving a fund of £200,000 to buy book stock from 2013/14 onwards. The proposed reduction in funding would mean that... MoreClosed 12 December 2012 -
CC107 - Review Support for the Community and Voluntary Sector Service
Outline of Proposal The council currently commissions infrastructure support for the voluntary and community sector. This includes training and business development support for community and voluntary sector organisations and the support and co-ordination of volunteers. The contract will be ending in March 2013 and this gives the council the opportunity to reconsider and redesign the support provided to the sector, as well as making a significant financial saving. The council will work... MoreClosed 12 December 2012 -
CC106c - Renegotiation of CCTV Contract
Outline of Proposal The Community Safety section of Customers and Communities is responsible for commissioning a range of services to minimize crime and disorder in the borough. One service which is commissioned is the provision of the CCTV contract to ensure coverage of Rochdale, Heywood and Middleton town centres. The service provided is currently of a high level, with an upgraded and well stocked control centre. It is proposed to reduce the funding we provide for this service by... MoreClosed 12 December 2012 -
SFL205 - Restructure the School Improvement Team – Primary
Outline of Proposal The School Improvement Team offers challenge and support to all schools in the Rochdale Borough in order to improve educational provision and raise standards for all learners as well as fulfilling the statutory duty of intervention where there is serious underperformance. From 1 September 2012, all secondary schools will be members of The Pioneer Trust in partnership with the council. The Trust, rather than the council, will provide universal functions of challenge and... MoreClosed 12 December 2012 -
ASC106 - Remodelling of Community Restart Service
Outline of Proposal The Community Restart service supports people with severe and enduring mental health problems to live in the community, maintaining their tenancies and accessing crisis support as necessary. The service also helps service users when they experience a crisis, preventing hospital admission. The service operates what is known as a ‘hub and spoke’ model of service delivery. The service has an element based at Greave House and provides crisis and intensive... MoreClosed 12 December 2012 -
Healthwatch Survey
Rochdale MBC wants to hear your views about Local Healthwatch. This is a new organisation being set up to provide information, advice and support about health and social care services. Healthwatch is the new independent consumer champion for both health and social care. It will exist in two distinct forms – Local Healthwatch at local level (from April 2013), and Healthwatch England at a national level (from October 2012). Until April 2013 Local Involvement Networks (LINks) will... MoreClosed 21 November 2012 -
Gambling Licensing Policy Statement 2013-2016
Tri-annual review of council policy under s349 of the Gambling Act 2005. This authority has now commenced its consultation and the updated Policy is now available. Should you have any comments on the suggested amendments or indeed you wish to propose other alterations to the policy please place them in writing no later than Thursday 1st November 2012. Contact Mrs Beverley Wilkinson Service Manager Licensing Rochdale Borough Council P O Box 32 Telegraph... MoreClosed 1 November 2012 -
Park Satisfaction Survey
The Environmental Management service at Rochdale Council manage your public parks. Over the last few years we have obtained many accolades for excellent management, with Green Flag Awards being won by 8 parks and other open spaces in 2011. The Green Flag Awards are achieved through an independent inspection with the scheme being run by “Keep Britain Tidy”. We need the comments from members of the public to make sure we continue to deliver the best public parks and other open... MoreClosed 30 September 2012 -
Rochdale Draft Core Strategy August 2012
The Core Strategy is a borough-wide strategic framework for growth and development up to 2028. It includes policies that set out the broad scale and location of new housing and employment development, transport and environmental policies and policies for determining planning applications. We have produced a Draft Core Strategy to give residents and stakeholders the opportunity to comment on our propsals. This will give the Council the opportunity to make any necessary changes arising from... MoreClosed 24 September 2012 -
Former Balderstone Technology College - Land Disposal Consultation
Residents’ views sought over future of school site Members of the public are being invited to comment on plans to redevelop part of the former Balderstone Technology College site in Queen Victoria Street, Rochdale. It will be vacant from August 2013 when Kingsway Park High School, which currently occupies the land, relocates to Turf Hill Road. As the current school site will then no longer be needed for educational purposes, Rochdale Borough Council is planning to... MoreClosed 13 July 2012 -
Pennines Green Infrastructure Action Plan Consultation Draft
Green infrastructure is the natural outdoor environment around us and is part of the life support system of the community. It includes all the green spaces from gardens, playing fields, parks and street trees to the wider countryside surrounding the borough. It also includes open water features such as canals, streams and lakes. These spaces provide a number of essential benefits that support our quality of life, health and well-being by providing opportunities for sport and recreation,... MoreClosed 25 May 2012 -
Shop Fronts and Security Shutters Supplementary Planning Document
Following the riots in August 2011, local authorities were advised by the government of the importance of ensuring a balance between maximising property security and protecting the look and character of our high streets; planning authorities were asked to review their existing planning policies in this regard. Additionally, the existing Supplementary Planning Guidance (SPG) dates from 1995. Whilst much of the design guidance is equally relevant today, it does not take account of changes... MoreClosed 8 May 2012 -
School Admission Arrangements 2013-14
The Local Authority has to determine admission arrangements for the September 2013 admission round by 15th April 2012. The Authority has already consulted with school governing bodies and others in the Autumn Term. The purpose of this document (attached below) is to set out the final consultation on: Co-ordinated Admissions Scheme for 2013-14; Within-Year Transfer Policy 2013-14; Admission Policy for Community and Voluntary Controlled Schools 2013-14; and... MoreClosed 16 March 2012 -
Cemetery Consultation
LATEST NEWS A further drop-in session at Spotland Library will be held on Friday 27 January 2012 between 10.00am and 1.00pm. All are welcome to come along to meet the project team, find out more and have your say. The meeting notes from Spotland Methodist Church meeting held on 13 December 2011 are available to view below **************************************** Following requests to see the restrictive covenant for Denehurst Park we have now made this available... MoreClosed 1 March 2012 -
Extra Reception Class Places in Primary Schools 2012-15
The Local Authority needs to make sure there are enough school places each year. There is still an increase in demand for Reception Class places in Primary Schools across the Borough, so the Authority wants to try to make sure that the views of parents, schools and others are taken into account before final decisions are taken. There are enough secondary school places. Consultationletters are set out below in the related documents section- by township- showing the current... MoreClosed 28 February 2012 -
Planning Services for adults with learning disabilities
Adult Care & Support are currently planning what services are needed within the budgets we have. Services for people with learning disabilities will be affected by these changes; therefore, we are developing a new strategy for how we buy services, based on what we see as priority outcomes and services for the future. Therefore, we are proposing to review all services and develop a set of new commissioning priorities around: Supported Living Respite ... MoreClosed 4 February 2012 -
Rochdale Council Housing Strategy Consultation
Future housing priorities Rochdale Council is currently in the process of working with Oldham Council to develop a joint three year strategic housing plan to improve the quality and quantity of and access to housing across both boroughs. There have been many recent achievements in the housing sector within Rochdale, these include: The building of over 1,000 new homes across the borough in the last three years of which 457 were affordable homes. In 2010/11... MoreClosed 25 December 2011 -
PS03 - Reductions to and reconfiguration of boroughwide debt, housing and welfare rights advice services
This proposal changes the debt, housing and welfare rights, employment and immigration advice services from being delivered by the council and two outside agencies (Citizens Advice Bureau and the Law Centre) to a single commissioned service operating in each township. This commissioned service would be a new service, meaning the Council would no longer provide an in house advice service, and mean potential significant changes to the Citizens Advice Bureau and Rochdale Law Centre. ... MoreClosed 19 December 2011 -
PS22 - Community Voluntary Sector Support
This proposal relates to re-tendering the contract for voluntary and community sector support at a lower cost than at present. Supporting a thriving and effective voluntary and community sector has been a long-standing aim of the Council. To assist with this, Rochdale Council for Voluntary Services (CVS) was awarded a three-year contract following a competitive process to provide a range of support to the voluntary sector, which is due to end on 31 March 2012. Given the importance... MoreClosed 19 December 2011 -
PS15 - Education Welfare Service
This proposal relates to reductions in the staffing of the Education Welfare Service. This service supports schools to improve the attendance of pupils and reduce persistent absence, and with their responsibilities relating to safeguarding. Schools are increasingly responsible for their own performance and improving their attainment and attendance, for instance by using ICT systems and employing their own staff who focus on home-school and family issues. We have ensured that... MoreClosed 19 December 2011 -
PS09 - Children's Centres - Resources
This proposal reduces the budgets for running costs of the 16 Children’s Centres by £2,000 each. The indicative saving for this proposal is £32,000 MoreClosed 19 December 2011 -
PS21 - Town Centre Management
This proposal reduces the grant to Rochdale Town Centre Management Company. Although this represents a significant reduction in Rochdale Town Centre Management Company’s income (12%), it should have limited impact on the support that is provided to local companies. The reduction in funding will mean that the company is no longer able to pay Rochdale Boroughwide Housing (RBH) to maintain the town centre CCTV cameras. However, maintenance of these cameras should be covered under... MoreClosed 19 December 2011 -
PS10 - Home to School Discretionary Transport
This proposal is to end discretionary home to school transport for all children attending mainstream schools with effect from 1 st September 2013. Under the current policy, as well as meeting its legal duty, the Council provides extra support to children for home to school transport such as: children attending a church school rather than their nearest school; all primary age children being eligible if the nearest school is over two miles away; and giving... MoreClosed 19 December 2011 -
P02 - Review of Countryside & Open Spaces
The council is considering a number of alternative options, as follows: Proposal A This proposal will reduce the number of Township Parks and Countryside Rangers positions resulting in: A reduced presence of staff in parks, countryside and at events Reduced maintenance for countryside and woodland areas The Green Volunteer and Community Payback activities will no longer be organised by the service, although they will continue to supervise this... MoreClosed 19 December 2011 -
PS06 - Adult Care Prevention and Independence Strategy Phase 2
This proposal involves the ending of some current prevention and independence services and the development of commissioning plans for new services as part of the Adult Care and Support Prevention and Independence Strategy. We have already consulted with providers and service users on a lot of this as part of the strategy development between April and August this year. The proposed new commissioning priorities are: community-based support services for older people and... MoreClosed 19 December 2011 -
PS28 - Early Break (Young People’s Substance Misuse Service)
This proposal reduces the council’s contribution to the Early Break service. Early Break is a charitable organisation commissioned by the Rochdale Safer Communities Partnership to provide a service for young drug and/or alcohol users and their parents/carers as appropriate. The current service contract value is nearly £480,000, made up of contributions from RMBC (Community Safety), the Youth Justice Board (via the Youth Offending Team) and the government Department of Health. ... MoreClosed 19 December 2011 -
BP1 - Critical Services Blueprint
We have developed a new vision and direction for the council. It takes account of what you told us were your priorities for public services, the savings we need to make over the next three years as a result of cuts in Government funding, and the comments you made in response to the consultation “£64 million question – how do we maintain important services whilst saving £64 million?”, which took place in July-August 2011. The document is available below in the related... MoreClosed 19 December 2011 -
BP2 - Quality of Place Blueprint
We have developed a new vision and direction for the council. It takes account of what you told us were your priorities for public services, the savings we need to make over the next three years as a result of cuts in Government funding, and the comments you made in response to the consultation “£64 million question – how do we maintain important services whilst saving £64 million?”, which took place in July-August 2011. The document is available below in the related... MoreClosed 19 December 2011 -
BP3 - Promoting Success Blueprint
We have developed a new vision and direction for the council. It takes account of what you told us were your priorities for public services, the savings we need to make over the next three years as a result of cuts in Government funding, and the comments you made in response to the consultation “£64 million question – how do we maintain important services whilst saving £64 million?”, which took place in July-August 2011. The document is available below in the related... MoreClosed 19 December 2011
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