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Wokingham Borough News – Summer 2021 Wokingham Borough NEWSYour magazine from Wokingham Borough Council Summer 2021 In this issue… How to get involved and have your say page 6 Mental health support available in the borough page 8 Great new places Our Vision to play in the and Priorities page 4 borough www.wokingham.gov.uk 2 Summer 2021 www.facebook.com/wokinghamboroughcouncil A happy, supportive educational environment Infant & Junior School Open Morning 12 October 2021 Reception Open Evening 6 October 2021 Register at: www.lvs.ascot.sch.uk/admissions/open-days *Open days adhere to government guidelines and the lockdown road map. www.twitter.com/WokinghamBC Summer 2021 3 Keeping in touch with us www.wokingham.gov.uk Welcome [email protected] We exist for no other reason (0118) 974 6000 than to serve you, our A happy, supportive residents. This is the guiding /wokinghamboroughcouncil principle of the council. /wokinghamboroughcouncil educational environment We are at the leading edge in many the key word in that is all. We will @WokinghamBC respects – the healthiest, the most not succeed in our aspiration if we prosperous borough and one of leave people behind. /WokinghamBC the most desirable places to live Infant & Junior School Open Morning with the least deprivation resulting Sound finances are fundamental to providing excellent services Sign up to our in the lowest level of government funding. We are not complacent. for all and to be able to celebrate Wokingham Borough 12 October 2021 We wish to be the best in all diversity and support. I am Connect newsletters respects providing the very bests delighted to assure all residents services for you and the best that our accounts are in good Reception Open Evening You can access Wokingham Borough support for those who need it. shape despite many years of being Council services in a number of ways: the worst-funded local authority in We have improvement the country (see page 5). Online: You can search for information, book, 6 October 2021 programmes for everything we do. report and pay for services on our website Good finances are the bedrock of www.wokingham.gov.uk We wish to be the local authority good services! We will continue to Web chat: Our web chat is available between 9am employer of choice inspiring pride maximise the return on our assets, Register at: www.lvs.ascot.sch.uk/admissions/open-days to 5pm Monday to Friday, and you can access it and fulfilment in all our staff. invest appropriately and seek from our website www.wokingham.gov.uk efficiencies to continue improving Some of the wide range of ways in Email: [email protected] what we do for residents. which we do that are highlighted *Open days adhere to government Telephone: Call us on (0118) 974 6000, and select in this magazine, and I have to We want to improve how we guidelines and the lockdown road map. the relevant option for your enquiry say, I am very very proud of our engage with all our residents. achievements in many areas – We will be launching forums, Also in this issue... the council response to Covid, consultations and other ways for greatly supported by voluntary you to get involved on massive partners and businesses, has been issues such as the Local Plan magnificent, as has our ability Update (which will decide where 10 to continue investment in new development can and cannot Latest on the facilities and services when other happen) and how we meet the Wokingham authorities have sadly had to cut climate emergency. We need to Town Centre back. work with you on these and many regeneration other issues and so I would urge I am also intensely proud that we you to look at the ways you can get have launched plans to promote involved (see pages 6 and 7). equality and tackle poverty in 12-13 the borough – our vision is for a John Halsall How we have borough that is a great place for all Leader of the Council been maintaining to live, work and do business, and services during the pandemic Editorial: Wokingham Borough Council’s Communications Engagement & Marketing Team 28 Designed and printed by: Digital Solutions on Galerie Gloss Our Customer 90gsm carbon balanced paper www.carbonbalancedprint.com Charter – CBP2228 listening to you To advertise, or if any other queries about this magazine, including delivery, contact: [email protected]. A pdf version of this magazine is available online at: to improve our news.wokingham.gov.uk/wokingham-borough-news services 4 Summer 2021 www.facebook.com/wokinghamboroughcouncil A GREAT PLACE TO LIVE, LEARN, WORK & GROW AND A GREAT PLACE TO DO BUSINESS Our Community Vision for the borough sets out what we will focus on to improve the lives of all you, our residents. We are committed to working with you and our partners to address and improve what really matters to ensure that this remains a great place to live, learn, work and grow and a great place to do business. Our Community Vision was approved last year and covers the period to 2024 / 2025. It focusses on six strategic priorities: ENRICHING LIVES RIGHT HOMES, RIGHT PLACES • Champion outstanding education and enable • Offer quality, affordable, sustainable homes fit for the our children and young people to achieve future. their full potential, regardless of their • Build our fair share of housing with the right background. infrastructure to support and enable our borough to • Support our residents to lead happy, healthy grow. lives and provide access to good leisure • Protect our unique places and preserve our natural facilities to complement an active lifestyle. environment. • Engage and involve our communities through • Help with your housing needs and support people to arts and culture and create a sense of identity live independently in their own homes. which people feel part of. • Support growth in our local economy and help to build business. KEEPING THE BOROUGH MOVING • Maintain and improve our roads, footpaths and SAFE, STRONG COMMUNITIES cycleways • Tackle traffic congestion, minimise delays and • Protect and safeguard our children, young and disruptions vulnerable people. • Enable safe and sustainable travel around the borough • Offer quality care and support, at the right with good transport infrastructure time, to prevent the need for long term care. • Promote healthy alternative travel options and • Nurture communities and help them to thrive. support our partners to offer affordable, accessible • Ensure our borough and communities remain public transport with good network links. safe for all. CHANGING THE WAY WE WORK FOR YOU A CLEAN AND GREEN BOROUGH • Be relentlessly customer focussed • Do all we can to become carbon neutral and • Work with our partners to provide efficient, effective, sustainable for the future. joined up services which are focussed around you • Protect our borough, keep it clean and • Communicate better with you, owning issues, enhance our green areas. updating on progress and responding appropriately as • Reduce our waste, improve biodiversity and well as promoting what is happening in our Borough increase recycling. • Drive innovative digital ways of working that will • Connect our parks and open spaces with connect our communities, businesses and customers green cycleways. to our services in a way that suits their needs. Want the latest news from Wokingham Borough Council straight into your email inbox? We provide regular updates on Covid-19, traffic & travel, climate emergency and many other topics as well as a general news round-up. To sign up for any or all of these updates, please visit www.wokingham.gov.uk and search ‘news’ www.twitter.com/WokinghamBC Summer 2021 5 Could the borough council go bankrupt? With news that some local authorities have had to declare bankruptcy or are struggling to make ends meet, residents are naturally concerned that we could go the same way – but the short and simple answer is no. In fact, thanks to careful budget monitoring, prudent Net debt: borrowing and shrewd investments, our finances are among All local authorities have borrow to money if they want to the soundest in the land. invest in new things such as leisure centres, regenerated Here’s how we are safeguarding our financial future, which is towns, solar farms and other improvements for the the cornerstone of being able to provide great services. community. But the key is to ensure your borrowing can be funded by the investment return and the assets produced. Close budget monitoring (internal scrutiny): In our case, the cost of borrowing is not just off-set by the We regular monitor and report on expenditure throughout returns we are making, we are actually generating revenue the year in order to keep a close eye on expenditure. Last that can be reinvested in services. year, the budget came in slightly underspent and we are currently on a good track this year. Strong reserves: The recent National Audit Office report on the ‘Financial Chartered Institute of Public Finance and sustainability of local authorities’ shows we have reserves Accountability (CIPFA) Resilience Toolkit: that can cover 85% of our spending power, which is twice the national average. The toolkit was issued by CIPFA in response to general concerns about local authorities’ financial stability and Auditing of accounts (external scrutiny): provides a measure (a set of financial indicators) against which we can test our resilience. An independent Our external auditors (Ernst & Young) have recently signed assessment of all these indicators (by the Municipal Journal) off our accounts as sound and have raised no concerns placed us in the top 20 in the country overall last year and, with regards to our financial soundness. They have also since then, all our key indicators have got even better.
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