Community Services
Community Services is the Council Directorate incorporating Social Services (adult provision), and Culture and Leisure.
Aims and ambitions
- Meeting the person, not just the need – ensuring that the needs of the whole person are recognised so that services are designed around them
- Promoting independence – enabling people to live a fulfilled life, making the most of their capacity and potential
- Providing wider choice – having access to a choice of, and control of, good quality services
- Improving access – enabling people to access services which meet, and are responsive to, their individual and diverse needs
- Joining up and innovating – working in partnership to develop the capacity to achieve change and deliver our priorities
- We will value staff who uphold these principles and Hackney’s vision and values
What did we achieve in 2006/07?
- CPA Level 2 achieved by Cultural Services and level 3 retained for Adult Social Care
- Opening of London Fields Lido
- Olympic and Paralympic local programme published
- Review of Supporting People Services
- New Joint Mental Health Service and Integrated Older Person’s Mental Health Service
What we plan to do next
Mayor’s Priority 1: Improving services and increasing opportunities for all, raising the life chances of the most disadvantaged.
Projects
Increase the usage of leisure and culture facilities in the borough; improving quality of life and health of our residents:
- Re-open Clissold Leisure Centre in 2007
- Re-open Ocean as an accessible, affordable venue
- Present options reviewing the future of Haggerston Pool building
Increase sports activity for young people, increasing quality of life for residents of the borough and helping to reduce health inequalities:
- Expand entry in London Youth Games
- Open a multi-use games area in London Fields
- Investment in green spaces
Improve our libraries so residents have an enriched service and improving opportunities for all:
- Introduce a self service system for libraries from October 2007
- Refurbishment programme for Clapton library starting in Autumn 2007
Develop the support to promote independence for vulnerable people:
- Implement the Carers Strategy in order to improve services to carers including developing opportunities presented by assistive technologies
- Develop person centred/outcome based care planning and scope a directory of services/routes to access
Mayor’s Priority 3: Providing effective community leadership and involving the whole borough in what we do.
Projects
- Begin delivery of the programme of projects to achieve Hackney’s priorities as a host borough for the 2012 Games
Page updated: 27 Jan 2008