Budget Highlights
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£4 million for sports and leisureThis is to go towards developing sports activity and helping to improve the health and wellbeing of residents, as well as refurbishments and improvements at Britannia and Kings Hall leisure centres. Hackney has some of the best leisure facilities around, including the Lido at London Fields, as well as Clissold Leisure Centre, the only such facility in the capital to receive an ‘excellent’ QUEST industry rating. |
£119 million on adult social careThe Council provides social care for some of the borough’s most vulnerable people, and this funding will help provide 640,000 hours of home care and 160 nursing home places. |
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£11m on refuse and recyclingThis will help residents recycle general household, food and garden waste through around six million recycling collections, as well as 8.5 million general waste collections. |
£5 million for parksThis will be for managing and maintaining 318 hectares of Hackney’s 62 parks and green spaces. Hackney has more green space than any other inner London borough, and nine parks have been judged to be amongst the best in Britain after receiving Green Flag awards. |
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£25 million in improving public safetyThe Council works with the police to continue the huge drop in crime Hackney has achieved during recent years. |
The funding will go towards several services including paying for 27,000 camera hours of CCTV footage to help police catch offenders, as well as 3,500 building control inspections, dealing with licence applications and enforcement.
£9 million for eight libraries and a community archiveEach year over 1.3 million people visit Hackney’s libraries, with 36,000 visitors to Hackney Museum – this funding includes over £3million to build the new Dalston Square library, and £500,000 per year to run it. |
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£187 million on support for young peopleThis is for more than 10,000 children and young people and will include primary and secondary schools as well as nurseries. |
£72 million on support for young peopleThis includes continued funding for 12 youth clubs; care packages for 130 disabled children; and 1,300 young people helped by the Council’s Youth Offending Team. |
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Page updated: 15 Jun 2010
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