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Hastings Local Strategic Partnership (LSP) Thematic Partnerships
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Introduction
The Hastings LSP decided that in order to achieve the vision of the future set out in the Community Strategy it would be necessary to create a series of Thematic Partnerships.
The key issues from the Community Strategy were identified and grouped into five themes: health, learning and skills, regeneration, crime and housing.
Each thematic partnership was given a portion of the strategy to tackle and their progress is reported back to the LSP Board annually.
Read the Community Strategy Supplement to find out what you can do to contribute and make a difference.
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Safer Hastings Partnership
The Hastings Crime and Disorder Reduction Partnership (CDRP) was set up in 1998 to tackle crime and the fear of crime. In April 2004 it was re-launched with a new, more user-friendly title: The Safer Hastings Partnership.
The aim of the Partnership is to reduce crime and the fear of crime in Hastings and St Leonards and, in doing so, make a significant impact on the quality of life for residents and visitors to the town.
This group is chaired by the Executive Director of Environment and Safety for Hastings Borough Council, Richard Homewood and is led by six principle partners:
- Sussex Police
- Sussex Police Authority
- Hastings Borough Council
- East Sussex County Council
- Primary Care Trust
- East Sussex Fire and Rescue Service
The Safer Hastings Partnership has focus groups concentrating on the following:
- burglary
- car crime
- violent crime
- drug and substance misuse
- domestic violence
- anti-social behaviour
- Identified Prolific and Other Priority Offenders (IPPO)
- public reassurance.
The key Community Strategy Targets that they lead on are:
- Target 5 - Community Safety: reduce the gap between crime rates in Hastings and St Leonards and the average for England and Wales.
- Target 6 - Community Safety: increase the percentage of residents who feel safe walking in their neighbourhood at night.
Visit www.saferhastings.co.uk/ for futher details.
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Learning and Skills
Philip Halstead, director of the Excellence Cluster, chairs this group and members include:
- Hastings College of Arts and Technology (HCAT)
- Hastings Borough Council Tressell Training
- 1066 Enterprise
- Hastings Voluntary Action (HVA)
- Government Office for the South East (GOSE)
- SeaSpace
- Horizons Community Learning Project
- East Sussex County Council
- Hastings and St Leonards Primary Care Trust
- Hastings and East Sussex Creative Partnership
- AimHigher
- SureStart
- Neighbourhood Renewal team
- Hastings Borough Council Economic Development
The key Community Strategy Targets that they lead on are:
- Target 9 - Education: increase the percentage of 15 yr-olds achieving 5 or more GCSEs at grades A* to C and increase the number of A to C grades including English and maths.
The suggested solutions relate to the targets set by the partnership groups and are intended to aid background support in:
early years, primary school, the development of the New Hastings and Rother College, appropriate learning progress 14 - 19, learners at 19 and adult learning.
and have arisen from analysis of background issues relating to all sector of learning and skills including:
data, sustainable funding, mentoring, Accredited Prior Experience and Learning, Local Learning Plan
Visit www.hstleaz.net/ for futher details.
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Housing Partnership
Robin Deane, Performance Director for 1066 Housing Association, chairs this partnership. Members of this Partnership include representatives from Hastings Borough Council, East Sussex County Council and the local housing association.
The group aims to ensure a sufficient supply of quality affordable housing to meet the diverse needs of the local community involving residents in decision making and improving standards in the private sector.
The key Community Strategy Targets that they lead on are:
- Target 16:
- 1a) Build 3,300 new homes by 2013
- 1b) 60% (1980) on previously developed land (brownfield)
- 1c) 825 (25%) affordable homes for young people and others in housing need
- Target 17: Improve housing standards within the most deprived wards to reflect the decent homes standard.
- Target 18:
- 3a) Achieve 50% reduction in numbers accepted as homeless per 1000 households by 2010
- 3b) Achieve 50% reduction in the numbers of households in temporary accommodation by 2010
Further details for some of the partners can be found on these websites:
www.orbit.org.uk/
www.rotherhomes.org.uk/
www.housingcorp.gov.uk/
www.moat.co.uk/
www.spla.co.uk/
www.crowebridge-housing.org.uk/
www.amicus-group.co.uk/
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Healthier Hastings Partnership
The Healthier Hastings Partnership Board is an alliance between local organisations and the community they serve whose purpose is to improve the health and well being of those living in Hastings, by agreeing a strategic framework for improving health and addressing health inequalities.
Further, the Healthier Hastings Partnership maintains an active overview of health and social care in Hastings while finding new ways to achieve marked improvements in population health.
Toni Wilkinson, Chief Executive of the Hastings and St Leonards Primary Care Trust (PCT), chairs this group and other members include:
- Hastings Borough Council (HBC)
- Hastings and St Leonards Primary Care Trust
- East Sussex Hospitals NHS Trust (ESHT)
- East Sussex County Council ((ESCC)
- Health and Social Care
- Hastings and St Leonards Excellence Cluster (formerly Education Action Zone)
- 1066 Housing Association
- Priority Ward Forums Special Interest Groups (SIGs)
- Public and Patient Involvement (PPI)
- Sussex Police
The key Community Strategy Targets that they lead on are:
- Target 13 - Living Longer, Healthier Lives: reduce death rates from circulatory disease (coronary heart disease and stroke) and cancer in people under 75, by at least 40% and 20% respectively.
- Target 14 - Teenage Pregnancy: reduce the under 18 conception rate by 15% by 2005 and 50% by 2013.
- Target 15 - Substance Misuse: increase the percentage of substances misusers retained in treatment for 12 weeks or more.
Further details can be found on these websites:
www.hastingsandstleonardspct.nhs.uk/
www.activeinhastings.org.uk/
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Hastings and Bexhill Economic Alliance
Hastings and Bexhill Economic alliance works across Hastings and Bexhill to drive forward economic regeneration and inclusion objectives. Responsible for the distribution of the South East England Development Agency (SEEDA) devolved Area Investment Framework funding, the partnership brings together key agencies which are able to foster economic growth and development and develop interventions appropriate to delivering our annual agreed objectives. The Economic Alliance is also responsible for the strategic overview of the Local Enterprise Growth Initiative programme.
The Partnership agrees annual strategic priorities:
Jobs and Business Growth:
- Achieve an increase in the value and productivity of key sectors through strategic and coordinated targeting of support services; increase the amount and range of jobs and ensure that all residents are equipped with the ability to access local and regional job opportunities.
Learning and skills:
- Provide pathways to employment through lifelong learning that is easily accessible and inclusive in high quality learning establishments that leads to both economic and social inclusion.
Physical Infrastructure:
- Ensure the sustainable development of business, residential and cultural/heritage development, taking advantage of strategic brownfield sites and the attractive environment to maximise the potential for economic growth and to ensure that physical location and transport difficulties do not exclude residents from employment;
Modernise the existing local and regional transport system and make better use of alternative transport solutions to achieve greater access to employment and community services and to ensure that no area is disadvantaged by a lack of transport opportunities;
Ensure that all residents have access to broadband ICT and that it becomes a standard tool in business through investment in infrastructure and training in all aspects of ICT usage.
Social and Economic Inclusion:
- Tackle the causes of deprivation and improve people's quality of life by raising the capacity within the community, including 'hard to reach' groups, to address their needs and enable them to influence opportunities that give an equality of outcome.
Christine Goldschmidt, Chief Executive of Hastings Trust, Chairs this group and other members include: Rother District Council, East Sussex County Council and Sussex Enterprise.
The key Community Strategy Targets that they lead on are:
- Target 3 - Child Poverty: the number if children aged under 16 living in households in receipt of income support.
- Target 7 - Unemployment: reduce average unemployment in the town to the East Sussex level by 2013.
- Target 8 - Average Earnings: increase median weekly earnings to national levels by 2013.
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This page last updated: 11/08/2006
