Neighbourhood Management in Melton

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Neighbourhood Management in Melton
Lucie Keeley Ronan Browne
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STRUCTURE
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THE PARTNERSHIP
LATHAM HOUSE
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A DECENT PLACE TO LIVE

• Environment
• Decent Homes
• Reducing Anti-Social Behaviour

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ENVIRONMENT

• Open spaces on Fairmead
• Environmental improvements Morley Close
• Town centre improvements
• Garage sites
• Grass Cutting responsibilities within priority
  neighbourhood areas
• Priority Neighbourhood Champions
• Inspections 7-10 days

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PRIDE 2008

• Community litter pick, roadside collection
• Youth night, community events
• Visual Audits resulted in 160 issues highlighted
• Including graffiti, repairs, fly tipping, grounds
  maintenance, litter, highways issues

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DECENT HOMES

• Council Housing Decent by 2010
• 1899 Properties of which 199 or 10 Non-decent
  (at end of 2008-9)
• 07/08 21 Non-decent
• Planned maintenance
• Focused in priority areas (95 properties 09/10)
• Newsletter, website

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REDUCE ANTI-SOCIAL BEHAVIOUR

• ASB awareness assemblies
• Grove, Brownlow, Swallowdale, Sherrard,
  Bottesford
• Halloween and Bonfire night ASB prevention
• 5 Detached Youth Workers
• IMPACT team

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YOUTH PROVISION

• Summer Easter Plus
• Soccar Scam
• Thai Boxing
• Easter activities
• Youth Clubs

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BREAKING BOUNDARIES
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INDIVIDUAL WELLBEING

• Financial wellbeing
• Health
• Education Employment

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CHILDRENS CENTRES

• Family Outreach Workers
• Library Outreach
• Mums in Mind
• Parent Toddler
• Messy Play, Cooking
• Baby Massage
• Healthy Living
• Yoga

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FINANCIAL WELLBEING

• LOAN SHARK CAMPAIGN
• Ad Van
• Christmas money saving tips
• Contacts for financial worries
• FINANCIAL WELLBEING OFFICER
• CLOCKWISE CREDIT UNION

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HEALTH

• Sexual Health clinics, information, testing kits
• Post natal Exercise Class
• Sports
• Table tennis
• Soccer Scam
• SAQ
• 12 targeted families
• 4 weeks

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DEVILS KITCHEN

• Twelve young people from Melton Learning Hub
• Melton's first self-styled Devil's Kitchen
• 3 days to learn how to prepare and serve up a
  three-course fine dining experience for 60 VIP
  guests
• Locally sourced ingredients
• Spread the healthy eating message
• Nutrition, food groups, eating a balanced diet,
  budgeting
• Aim to produce lots of talented young chefs and
  caterers

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EDUCATION EMPLOYMENT

• Redundancy leaflet
• Skills for jobs drop in
• Numeracy Literacy courses
• Job Maets
• Working Links

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FUTURE CHALLENGES

• Statistics evidence of successes
• Summer Pride weeks
• South Melton
• Credit Crunch
• Increasing Empowerment

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NEIGHBOURHOOD MANAGEMENT FUNDING

• 20,000 Funding 09/10
• 10,000 Youth
• 5,000 CAB
• 5,000 South Melton

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YOUTH

• Many positive activities for young people
• Joined up approach helping young people to
  participate in positive activities outside of
  school
• Reward for participating in a number of local
  activities with a good behavior record
• Rewarding those who positively engage
• Min number of sessions per week/ month
• Rewarded with trips e.g. football match

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CAB

• Financial debt advice high in demand
• Advisor for the 3 Childrens Centers
• Targeting families who have recently become
  unemployed
• General advice including debt and welfare benefit
  problems

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SOUTH MELTON

• 5,000 to tackle local issues raised by
  residents
• Consultation
• Bids for the top areas of interest

Budget Bingo!