The Child Poverty Act 2010 places a duty on local authorities to undertake and publish an assessment of the needs of children living in poverty in its area.   Calderdale’s Child Poverty Needs Assessment covers the key areas of: employment, skills and education; income; health; and, housing. It will inform the development of the Child Poverty Strategy for Calderdale.

 A resource pack to help you implement the Calderdale Compact with an updated list of organisations who have signed up (October 2011).

The Director of Public Health is required to produce an annual report on the health of people in Calderdale.

The aim of this project is to produce a Climate Change Strategy and Action Plan for Calderdale; Calderdale’s Energy Future. This flyer explains the stakeholder engagement and strategy development process.

Calderdale’s first Implementation Plan 2011-2014 identifies proposals to address the District’s transport issues under each of the four strategic transport theme headings identified in the ‘MyJourney – West Yorkshire Local Transport Plan 2011-26’:

• Assets - efficient and cost-effective management of highways and transport assets;

• Choices - encouragement of more sustainable travel choices;

• Connectivity - delivery of an integrated and reliable transport system;

• Enhancements – improvements to the transport system.

For further information or copies of the document please contact Libby Furness, Senior Programme Manager for Substance Misuse on 01422 281441 or libby.furness@calderdale.nhs.uk

Draft JSNA

Questions

Terms of Reference

Operating Arrangements

This is the second annual report from the Council’s five scrutiny panels. It provides information about scrutiny in Calderdale and reviews the work of the panels over 2009/10. Contact details are provided at the end of the report.

An updated version of the document following the consultation meeting on the 24th January 2011.

An updated version of the consultation document which includes feedback on the Volunteer Code. Deadline for responses 21st February 2011.

The Compact aims to improve the way that partners work together to contribute to improving the social, economic and environmental well- being of everyone who lives in, works in and visits Calderdale.

The Toolkit is designed to help organisations, partnerships or service areas work in accordance with the Calderdale Compact, by helping partners to identify where partnership working can be improved, and what actions can be taken to improve it.

You should share the information in the Toolkit throughout your organisation, making sure that everyone who is involved with partnership working is aware of the Compact, and what it means for them. The Toolkit also contains information on what you can expect from partners, and information on how you can get help to implement the Compact in your organisation.

Further information may be available from either :

Sheri Wardell on  01422 392317 or Soo Nevison on 01422 348777.

Economy and Enterprise Strategy

Action plan (May 2010 version)

This is the first annual report from the Council’s five scrutiny panels. It provides information about scrutiny in Calderdale, reviews highlights of the work of the panels over 2008/09 and looks at future developments. Contact details are provided at the end of the report.

This is the first refresh of the three year Children and Young People’s Plan

(CYPP) 2008 – 2011 produced by the Children’s Trust. The refresh takes the Trust one year on, with updated plans for 2009 – 2010 to further improve the lives of children and young people in Calderdale.

Calderdale's second Local Area Agreement (LAA2) is a 3-year programme running from 2008 to the end of March 2011. This report shows performance achieved against targets, at the end of the first year.

http://www.calderdale.gov.uk/council/consultations/jsna/index.html

Comprehensive Area Assessment in Calderdale

In light of the recent announcement by the Coalition Government, Comprehensive Area Assessment has now ceased. This will not effect inspectorates' statutory powers to carry out inspections at their discretion. Further information upon local reporting requirements is awaited.

To see our earlier briefing note with information about Comprehensive Area Assessment and the outcome of Calderdale’s 2009 assessment

click here

The Calderdale Place Survey 2008 Briefing on National Indicator Results provides the provisional data for the eighteen National Indicators (NIs) whose source is the Place Survey.  Comparison with previous data is available for some of the questions in the Place Survey, where these have been included in previous national surveys (e.g. Best Value Performance Indicators or previous Local Area Agreement surveys). Four National Indicators that are in Calderdale’s Local Area Agreement are shown in bold. These are NI 1, NI 4, NI 17 and NI 138.

A detailed Report has been commissioned and will include information about how findings compare with other Districts and with previous results.  This comparative data is not yet available; latest information is that it will be released in June.

The results provided are the provisional results weighted by the Audit Commission to reflect the population of the District. (Weighting is undertaken to ensure that the opinions of under-represented groups are fully reflected in the overall results.) 

Halifax is one of nine areas across England participating in the Government’s Healthy Towns Initiative, a key part of the national ‘Healthy Weight Healthy Lives’ strategy and Change4Life campaign.  The aim is to get people moving more and eating well. A Commissioning workshop has taken place and projects will be commissioned from April. To find out more information click below.

The Improvement and Development Agency for local government (IDeA) and the Institute for Voluntary Action Research (IVAR) supported a Partnership Improvement Programme (PIP) for Calderdale.

PIP is designed to improve cross-sector partnership working between local authorities and local voluntary and community organisations (VCOs). 

For more information about the aims of PIP, please click below, or contact the LSP Support Team.

The ‘reward element’ is additional money from central government for LSPs, for the achievement of specific challenging targets. Calderdale’s first Local Area Agreement (LAA1) included 14 Reward Element Indicators. These were three year targets, eligible for payment of performance reward grant should the targets be achieved by April 2010.

Although LAA1 came to an end in March 2008 and was succeeded by LAA2, the 14 Reward Targets will continue until 2010. Progress is carefully tracked to ensure the best possible support is given to achieving them and the potential Performance Reward Grant that accompanies them.