October 2009 www.westsussex.gov.uk Issue No. 39 Ambitious agenda
This service is fired up to for tough times help you! See page 3 NEW ways of providing essential services are on the way with getting more for taxpayers’ money at the heart of an ambitious agenda. Technology will play a leading role as we aim to realise budget efficiencies of £50 million over the next two years. That’s on top of the annual £40 million already Letting them know that saved over the last few years the drugs don’t work thanks to an internal See page 4 efficiency drive - money that’s allowed us to maintain front-line services, invest in areas under pressure and helped deliver the lowest ever percentage council tax rise this year since the system started. The impact of the recession, public spending cuts nationally and the need to keep council tax increases as Keeping you safe at low as possible, are all key Halloween factors behind major changes See page 18 between now and 2011. West Sussex continues to be underfunded. If we got the average settlement for a County authority we could One step beyond! knock 15% off council tax.
“It’s important to stress Our new improved West Sussex Music caters for beginners upwards to enjoy playing that we are not talking about Service has been judged as one of the best music together or trying out a new instrument. doing away with much-loved in the country. The report, by the Department for Children, services but finding modern, The aim behind the revamped service is to Schools and Families (DCSF), said the service more efficient ways of introduce the delights of music to as many of was excellent in many areas including support delivering them,” said West our school pupils as possible. for pupils, value for money, and teaching skills. A special type of Sussex Leader, Henry Smith. You don’t have to be a violin virtuoso to More info: email [email protected] or education “Value for money will be enjoy one of the Music Centre sessions, which call 01243 642361. See page 17 very much the key. We can more complex. discharged from hospital voluntary sector and a public services, but they be a leaner organisation as Home care is one area will be offered intensive wide range of public are tough as well for our we strive to do more for less.” that will see major changes care packages led by sector organisations like residents and the For example: aimed at giving more occupational therapists so the NHS. It is also business community. ★ ★ ★ ★ ● Residents will find us strengthening people an independent they can get back on their West Sussex gets £124 open for business 24/7 with Keep West lifestyle. feet and resume day to day partnership working per resident compared more services or advice West Sussex has been a living much more quickly. with the seven district to a national average of Sussex working available via website national pioneer of We’re looking right and borough councils to around £190. improvements. ensure value for money. turn to page 6 for an update on ‘personal budgets’ for across the board to make ways we're helping residents ● Our Contact Centre will people entitled to social sure that we are spending Henry said a That’s why be a local call ‘one-stop shop’ people rightly expect us and businesses through the care support - giving them your money where it’s continuing drop in recession plus a report on for many more enquiries. the power to decide what most needed and effective. central government to lead by example, and ● ensure we do all we can spending and work to There will be personal support they want to meet The County Council grants for services, was balance the books. support and advice for their care needs. will be working in also expected. to make every penny people whose needs are Older people being partnership with the “Times are tough for count.” Inside! Your pull-out and keep Guide to Essential Services 2 visit our website at www.westsussex.gov.uk BUSINESS AND HOME IMPROVEMENTS WIRED UP
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Janine, centre, with Linda on the sofa behind her
REDUCE THE RISK HALLOWEEN, November the Fifth, Diwali, the festive season … There’s plenty of scope for fun and partying in the months to come. But it also means an increase in the risk of fire in the home. So be wise this winter and follow the common sense home fire safety guidelines drawn up by our Fire and Rescue Service. They cover: Smoke alarms: Just ask Brian Whitman, 64, of Charity Shoreham, about the value of smoke alarms. starts at A smoke alarm installed by our firefighters alerted him about a blaze home in his flat. Brian, who has impaired hearing, was able to put out the fire using buckets of water For Janine life would services the children and the family sometimes, but it trustee or a fundraiser email after being woken not be the same family centres provide. is rewarding when they arunhomestart@ukonline. by a vibrating pad without Linda, her Linda, who started reveal their stories and you co.uk or phone alarm under his pillow. Home-Start volunteering in 2001, said: can help them. There is also 01243 869611. He was led to safety by firefighters and given oxygen volunteer. “Volunteers must be fantastic support from before being taken to Worthing Hospital. Brian said: “There The 34-year-old single prepared to listen and be Home-Start for volunteers. For volunteering is no doubt about it - this device saved my life.” mum of five from East non-judgmental, always They are always at the end opportunities or enquiries Top tips: Preston has nothing but remembering you are being of a phone for you.” for the rest of West Sussex ● Fit smoke alarms on every level of your home. praise for Linda. invited into people’s homes If you are interested in and nationally, call 0800 ● Check the battery once a week. Janine said: “She is an to help them. becoming a Home-Start 0686368, or visit ● Replace the battery every 12 months. amazing lady who has helped “It can be tough and hard Arun volunteer - either as a www.home-start.org.uk me build up my confidence work to build up trust with home visitor like Linda, a
Fireworks: and self-esteem.” Advertisement Make sure your party goes with the right kind of bang Linda offers Janine and on 5 November. her family practical help with Top tips: daily routines. She also takes NEVER: part in fun activities with the ● Put fireworks in your pocket. whole family such as going to ● Return to a firework after it has been lit - it could the park or for a coffee. explode in your face. Linda has even helped Janine ● Throw fireworks. search for jobs to get back ALWAYS: into working life. ● Read the instructions carefully, using a torch or Home-Start is the hand lamp. country’s leading family ● Light fireworks at arms length using a taper or a support charity with 330 AFFORDABLE ASSISTED RETIREMENT LIVING ASSSISTTEEDD RETIREMENT LIVING firework lighter. schemes across the UK and ● Stand well back. several in West Sussex, IN THIS GLORIOUS #ATHEDRAL #ITY OUSS ##AATHEDRRAAL ##IITTYY ● Ensure all children with fireworks are well supervised. including Arun. Home-Start ● Keep all pets and animals indoors. volunteers offer both %VEN IF YOU CANT OR DO NOT WANT TO %VVEEN IF YOU CANTT OR DO NOT WANT TO ● Put the hot end of finished sparklers down in a practical and emotional bucket of water. support to families that are SELL YOUR OWN HOME YOU CAN STILL SELL YOUR OWN HOMEE YOOU CAN STILL Christmas: struggling to cope for ENJOY THE COMFORT AND PEACE OF MIND ENJOOYY THE COMFFOORT AND PEACE OF MIND Over Christmas and New Year people spend more time whatever reason, including THAT WE BRING TO RETIREMENT LIVINGTTHAT WEBRING TORETIREMENT LIVING at home, usually with a lot more guests. post natal depression, “While people are relaxing with friends and family, isolation, illness, disability or "RING YOUR TREASURED "RING YOUR TREASURED bereavement. Support is everyday fire risks increase. People are more likely to be PPOSSESSIONS AND FURNITURE TO OUR OSSESSIONS AND FURNITURE TO OUR distracted and more vulnerable to accidental fires,” said confidential and non- judgmental and all volunteers BBRIGHT CENTRALLY HEATED EN SUITE RIGHT CENTRALLY HEATED EN SUI TE Jackie Boyle, Community Fire Safety Officer. RROOMS AND FORGET ABOUT THE WORRIES OOMS AND FFOORGET ABOUT THE WORRIES DO: attend a preparation course OOFOF RUNNING YOUR OWN HOME 9OULL RUNNING YOUR OWN HOME 99OOOULL ● Plan your escape route in the event of fire and ensure and must have an enhanced all your guests know where the door and window keys criminal records bureau KKEEP YOUR INDEPENDENCE WE WILL EEP YOUR INDEPENDENCE WEWWILL are kept. check before they are AADDADD THE SECURITY COMPANIONSHIP THE SECURITYY COMPANIONSHIP ● Check the maximum amps that can be handled by the matched to their first family. AAND EXCELLENT FRESHLY PREPARED ND EXCELLENT FRESHLY PREPARED fuse in the plug. Home-Start Arun is MMEAMEALS IN THE COMPANY OF FRIENDSLS IN THE COMPANY OF FRIENDDS ● Replace bulbs if they blow. partly funded by the County ##ALL *ULIA TO ARRANGE A VISITALL *ULIA TO ARRANGE A VISIT ● Put candles in proper holders so that they cannot Council, and partly through fall over. grants and fundraising ● Keep decorations, cards and wrapping paper away activities. They work in from candles, open fires and heaters. partnership with our WWWABBEYlELDCHIORGWWWWABBEYlELDCHIORG DON’T: children and family centres - ● Be distracted when cooking. the centres family support ● Leave fairy lights switched on when you go out or workers go to Home-Start family groups to work with h!LTHOUGH ) WAS APPREHENSIVE ABOUT hh!!LTHOUGH ) WAS APPREHEENSIVE ABOUT to bed. LEAVING MY OWN HOME IT IS A WONDERFUL CHANGE LEAVING MY OWN HOMEE IT IS A WONDEERFUL CHANGE ● Let bulbs touch anything that can burn easily like paper the families there, and, in TO COME TO THIS PEACEFUL HAVEN IN HISTORIC TO COME TO THIS PEACEFUL HAVEN IN HISTORIC or fabrics. turn Home-Start families are #HICHESTER !ND IT HAS GIVEN ME AFFORDABLE #HICHESTTEERR!ND IT HAS GIVEN MEE AFFFOORRDDABLE ● Leave candles unattended. encouraged to use the COMFORT AND COMPANIONSHIPvCOMFFOORT AND COMPANIONSHIPv 4 visit our website at www.westsussex.gov.uk
An intensive programme of multi-media activities aimed at repeat young offenders was held by West Sussex Youth Offending Service to help them get a job or move onto further education. The programme took six weeks to complete and included computer game design, photography, art studies, music and numeracy and literacy sessions. The young people also ran a workshop that enabled them to share their newly-acquired skills with other young men and women. They all now have a formal arts qualification and have had one-to-one consultations with Connexions, the young people’s advice service, about moving on to college or taking part in On the related courses. Luke O’Keefe, Sports and Activities Coordinator, Youth Offending Service, said: “As well as raising aspirations and self-esteem, the project also challenged negative attitudes and right behaviour, which is linked to criminal behaviour. “Projects like this have an important role because a young person in education or employment is far less likely to commit crime.” Here three young people who went course on the course talk about how it has helped shape their future:
I had recently got out of It wasn’t an easy five weeks. Everyone had to get straight to work every day. We’ve made I was out of prison on licence prison for street robbery and affray new friends and we have made new decisions on the course. when I did this course. It has really when they put me on this course. “All of us had gone down the wrong path. But made me get “I have learned things I didn’t by doing this course we have taken a step forward up and go think I would ever learn. and realised there is much more to life than crime. because usually “This kind of thing stops you just “It has made me think about my life and I’m I would just sit hanging around on the streets 24/7 back studying now. indoors. because you are doing something. “I want to follow a career in photography and I “I’m now “It’s a good course and it does am helping out a professional photographer. I’d about to start make you think. It has helped me thought of doing this before but never really did a college towards more positive things and anything about it until the course. course - it gives you something worth the “When I came out of jail, I was determined to something I same as a GCSE at the end. fix my life up. But without this course I would wouldn’t be - Kyronne Kanning, 17. probably have carried on what I was doing. It has doing if I hadn’t gone on the course (pictured above) opened my eyes to change. - Dean Lynch, 18. - Ally Phillips, 17.
Josh Prince is set to become a valuable volunteer with the West Sussex Youth Offending Team. There’s his CV for a start: a 19-year-old ex-drugs dealer The drugs You said - who has done time. Combine that with the bling and the street smart we did clothes and he’s got the kind of cred kids on the cusp of turning to crime are going to take notice of. don’t work Josh was 17, his partner seven months pregnant, when he was arrested for possessing Class A drugs and because of the seriousness of the offence, he was refused bail. Two months later, he was sentenced to 18 months in Feltham Young Offenders Institute, where he served eight months. “That meant I missed the birth of my daughter and more or less the first year of her life,” said Josh. He did not waste his time inside. He gained GCSEs and also accepted help from a drugs misuse worker. When Josh was released a year ago, he received help and support from Mandy Locks and Sandra Cook, of the Youth Offending Team. A recent e-panel survey showed that recycling is a There was a time, Josh admits, when the choices facing him were hot topic in West Sussex. Residents said they stark. wanted more information on recycling, and more “But now I live in a nice flat and I’ve got a fabulous daughter. feedback from councils about what happens to the Although I’ve got a regular job as a store cleaner, I’m now aiming to recycled waste. start my own online clothes and fashion accessories business,” he said. The survey gave valuable information on different Josh will be working with the Youth Offending Team, talking to views people have about the environment and how we can work together to protect it. E-panel members said the young people at school and college open days, working with crime public wants to be kept more informed about our prevention teams in West Sussex and talking one-to-one with environmental policies and planning for the future. potential young offenders. The results have also encouraged the County Council He said: “I think I will be good at it. Because let’s face it, when it to do more research about environmental issues as well as comes to crime, I’ve lived it, got the T-shirt. on many other issues in the county, such as schools of the The Youth Offending Team already arranges for young people to future and the fire service. visit Lewes Prison to hear first hand from convicted criminals. See the results of surveys or join the residents e-panel “But they tend to be of a different and older generation. That isn’t and find out what consultations are taking place and get the case with Josh. He’s of a similar age so young people will be able involved at www.westsussex.gov.uk/haveyoursay to identify with him. We’re sure he’ll be a valuable asset,” said Mandy. visit our website at www.westsussex.gov.uk 5 EASY Advertisement ONLINE We’re in! Join the ‘in-crowd’ this term and enjoy delicious SCHOOL nutritious hot school dinners from just £2 a day. ENTRY There are 7,000 primary school students at 102 schools across West Sussex already tucking in, with 47 more schools in the 98% of pupils lunch line to take Steamplicity who started school in meals from early next year. September this year got one of their preferred But don’t just take our word schools for it - here’s what one Year 5 boy had to say:
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If you have any queries about any of the above processes ring 0845 075 1007. Advertisement Advertisement 6 visit our website at www.westsussex.gov.uk How have we spent your money? The Financial Report and Accounts is where we show you how your money has been spent over the last 12 months to provide the 80 per cent of local government services for which the County Council is responsible.
The accounts for 2008/09 were the Fundamental Service Review. Because of approved by our Regulation, Audit and services’ good financial management in Kim’s Accounts Committee and are at the delivering an underspend, however, this time of publication awaiting sign off by contribution has not been needed. This our auditors. means that general balances remain at a They show that revenue spending for healthy £13m which acts as some insulation ‘Wilde’ 2008/09 was £878 million. The budget for the against the difficult financial times ahead. year included £15m of efficiency savings from The table below shows how the the Fundamental Service Review, part of our underspending is made up in more detail. about ongoing programme to improve services to We have also spent £121m on capital our customers while securing major savings schemes such as road improvements, for West Sussex tax payers. refurbished school buildings, new residential Final spending for the year was £4.2 homes for older people and the new Crawley recycling million, or 0.5 per cent less than we budgeted Library and office buildings. Some £10m was for. Of this, some £5.7 million came from spent on the new Bognor Regis Community underspending by services. The County College which will open in 2010. Council had £12.9m invested in Heritable Ltd, In future years it is clear that public a UK-regulated bank, in September 2008, finances will come under ever-greater when Heritable’s Icelandic parent company pressure as the costs of managing the current failed. We estimate that £2.6m of this money recession mount. The County Council is will not be recovered and have written that well-placed to meet this challenge, having off in the 2008/09 accounts; however, delivered an underspend in 2008/09, retaining investment returns in the first part of the a prudent level of balances and investing in year were so healthy that the budget was the Fundamental Service Review. exceeded by £4m. Even allowing for This report can only provide a snapshot Heritable, therefore, we made a surplus of of how we spend your money as effectively as £1.4m on our cash management for the year. we possibly can on the services you rely on. When the County approved its 2008/09 The complete financial statements can be KIM WILDE, 1980s pop star and now a gardening expert and author, budget it had planned to take £4m from found at opened our flagship plant that is revolutionising the way recycled balances to invest in generating savings from www.westsussex.gov.uk/accounts08-09 rubbish is handled in the county. Latest Net Called a Materials Recycling Facility (MRF), the plant, at Ford Airfield Revenue Spending 2008/09 budget spending Variation for year near Arundel, sorts the wide variety of products left in kerbside recycling £m £m £m bins. It is one of the most advanced in the UK and has the capacity to Adults’ Services 186.8 186.2 -0.6 sort 100,000 tonnes of mixed recyclable materials collected from all Children and Young People 536.3 536.5 0.2 West Sussex households each year. Libraries and Communications 11.1 11.2 0.1 Deputy Leader 2.2 0.8 -1.4 Environment and Economy 6.1 6.0 -0.1 Finance and Resource 11.7 9.0 -2.7 Public Protection 44.6 44.2 -0.4 Keeping the county working Strategic Planning and Transport 102.2 101.4 -0.8 There are small signs nationally that the worst of the recession... may Spending by services be over, but many of us are still feeling the pinch in West Sussex. The County Council has come up with a number of measures as part of a Capital Financing and Investment -10.6 -12.3 -1.7 £500,000 package to help the county’s businesses and residents during the Planned Changes to Balances -6.3 -0.7 5.6 recession. Loss on investment in Heritable Bank 0.0 2.6 2.6 Action taken so far includes: Investment income -7.3 -11.3 -4.0 ● £100,000 to the Citizens Advice Bureaux to help West Sussex residents who Contingency 1.0 0.0 -1.0 need debt and other counselling. TOTAL NET SPENDING 877.8 873.6 -4.2 ● £80,000 to Business Link Sussex to provide up to 240 business improvement reviews and advice to West Sussex businesses. ● £110,000 to the West Sussex Credit Union to fund, with partners, budgeting, BALANCING THE BOOKS and debt advice workers. The report above shows increase in the number of areas. All services are being ● Supporting a fuel poverty coordinator to help residents develop affordable what services your council children referred to social asked to reduce spending to bill payment plans and negotiate better deals with energy suppliers. tax paid for last year. This services in the wake of the keep us in the black. ● A price freeze on many Adult and Community Learning Courses. Now is the financial year has brought Baby P case. This has meant a This is entirely separate perfect time to sign up to a course to develop your skills or help you re- extraordinary financial significant increase in from the new ways of train. pressures for us all. spending to support these providing services highlighted ● £15,000 to libraries to provide hundreds of new books advising on Like every private saver children and their families. on the front page which will employment and business, to help guide people through the downturn. we have been hit by the fall in This is an area that simply has help us to work better and ● A pledge to take on 200 apprenticeships over two years with 70 in the interest rates and need to to have top priority and not smarter in the future. process of being recruited. plug a hole in the budget of one where we can cut costs. Short term measures to ● Putting a bid for funding under the Government’s “Future Jobs Fund” to help some £2 million as a result. As a result we face a trim expenditure in order to those 18-24 year olds who have been out of work for around a year. Like other councils up projected overspend of just balance the books will be For details of free environmental reviews for businesses, call and down the country we are over £5 million by the end of chosen to have the least or visit www.westsussexsbp.org.uk 01243 777348 dealing with more child the year unless we reduce or possible impact on front line For other ways to get help and advice visit the ‘Keep West Sussex Working’ protection work with a big freeze spending in other services. pages on our website. visit our website at www.westsussex.gov.uk 7
recent conference to Change, an organisation people with mental health interviews made him included ‘time banking’, which campaigns to end the problems in the county, as nervous and uncomfortable. which is a new project discrimination faced by less than a quarter of them Paritas helped him through for people with a mental mentally ill people. Among health problem, starting their initiatives are beermats in the Southwick area. which blast away myths such People who sign up for as ‘People With Mental the scheme work for Illness Can’t Work’. In fact credits rather than figures show that most cash, which can be people work alongside exchanged for services someone with mental illness. from other members. The County Council For example, if you works with many love gardening but organisations in West Sussex hate cooking, you to challenge the stigma that could spend some is still time tidying up a member’s
people. But if you are employed. the recruitment process. Mental health suffer from mental But since the Colin has now had the problems are far illness you are still organisation was same job for nearly a year more common and likely to be shunned by launched last year and his employers are widespread than a large section of the it has supported delighted with his progress. most people think or population. 131 people and of The County Council is would like to admit. A generation ago these the County playing a major role in In fact one in four people people used to talk about Council has recruited 31. bringing the way we behave in West Sussex is likely cancer in hushed tones and Paritas goes far beyond towards people with mental to suffer a mental health were frightened to talk the traditional role of a health illness into the 21st problem at some point openly about the illness. recruitment agency and century. You can play your during their lifetime. Now most people feel free garden, promotes diversity and part. If you know of In the workplace one to talk in public about the while wellbeing in the workplace. It someone with the illness be employee in six will suffer problems they face. they associated with provides mental illness there for them and don’t cut from depression, anxiety or Sadly mental illness bake a cake mental illness. It also has a awareness training to them out of your life or problems related to stress. remains the final taboo. But for you! But you don’t have number of schemes in place employers and opportunities workplace. There is also evidence that now a number of initiatives to do a direct swap on tasks to support people to promote equality. Look out for a poster more people are seeking are underway in the county – you can build up your experiencing mental distress Colin is typical of the display in our Libraries and help for mental health to educate people about the credits and use them with and to help with their kind of people Paritas has Help Points throughout problems caused by the reality of the illness and help any member of the project recovery. helped. It managed to find October. More information current recession. put an end to the at any time. Paritas is one of these him employment within two is also available on our If you break an arm or a discrimination many mentally The conference formed part organisations. It acts as a weeks. 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Firefighters spent an afternoon at The Place Youth Café, Worthing, teaching young people about fire safety using art forms like graffiti to hammer home School Rule the message. Would you like to have a say in the way your local school is run? Then become a school governor and join 4,000 other ordinary people from many areas of society who devote time to getting to know the school well and support it. You don’t need any formal qualifications to become a governor but you do need an interest in and a commitment to the education of children. They work with head teachers to make decisions about how a school is run from its finances through to staff recruitment and disciplinary procedures. Julie Burnett-Kirk knows more than most about how worthwhile the governing body of a school can be, as she comes from Australia, where there is no such thing. She said: “I first became a governor when my daughter The was at school, and it was a way of contributing as a full-time working mum. I had never been able to go to the school and listen to readers or go on trips with the class so this was a writing’s way I could support my child’s school. “After she left it was a way of being able to represent the community view and to give an ‘outsiders’ viewpoint through on the my questioning or comments. Trying to describe why I love being a governor is quite challenging but I find it an extremely satisfying way to be involved in what can make a difference to a child’s chances in life.” wall To find out more about being a governor visit our website, or call 01293 423501 (north) or 01903 839244 (south). Did you know that around 10% of West Sussex’s What population is made up of unpaid carers? We therefore want to make Carers sure the 78,000 voices are heard and their needs are Want met in the future. More than 100 people lives easier: ● Better access to attended a West Sussex ● A short break from their information and advice on Carers Conference, caring responsibilities, free medical issues and greater organised by the County from guilt and anxiety support and advice at the Advertisement Council, West Sussex ● An increased range of time of diagnosis Primary Care Trust and emotional support available ● Improved access to LearnLearn ttoo ddriverive West Sussex Carers to meet individual’s needs information that is timely, Support Services. ● Working carers want to accurate and adapted to suit The conference was an be able to ask for the individual carer’s needs. opportunity to discover information about their We are continuing to likelike tthehe eexpertsxperts what carers really need and rights and to be better consult with our carers. If want. Here are some of the supported by employers you would like more things carers told us they through flexible working information, or to have your would like to make their practices say, visit our website.
Sussex Safer Roads ZERO TOLERANCE ON ABUSE We’ve all heard about child protection but how onon tthehe often do we consider adult protection? The County Council wants to ensure vulnerable adults are kept safe and make it clear that adult abuse will not be BETTER tolerated. We believe each person has a right to be YoungYoung DDrivers’rivers’ respected and not threatened, harmed or put at risk. TOGETHER A ‘vulnerable adult’ is a person aged 18 years and over Selling advertising to offset the who because of disability, age or illness may not be able to cost of producing this newspaper SkillsSkills CCourseourse take care of themselves or protect themselves from harm is one example of the way the or exploitation. We are asking you as a neighbour, family Council is always looking for ways member or friend to make it your business to keep a to provide more value for money. Aged between 17-25? lookout for vulnerable people and make sure they are safe. We are delighted that the PCT You could benefit and National figures reveal that up to 8,000 older people has teamed up with Connections improve your driving living in their own homes in West Sussex could be to share the cost of experiencing some kind of abuse and it’s up to us to be skills and awareness communicating with residents. alert to the signs. through this on-road Abuse may not be easy to detect but signs could (See back page for PCT news.) In course with Advanced include a change in behaviour with a person becoming the months to come we aim to Driving Instructors - run by West Sussex County Council in more cowed, unkempt, dressed inappropriately or in deliver more examples of how by partnership with ‘Skid-Control’ on the skid pan at Goodwood extreme cases bruised or injured. You may see someone joining up with partners we can Motor Circuit. verbally or physically abusing a vulnerable person, touching work better together. them roughly or inappropriately, humiliating them or ● Our pull out and keep Guide Plus, you will be offered the opportunity to drive a Ferrari! The course, spending their money. which is subsidised by West Sussex County Council, costs just £75.00 or to Essential West Sussex Services £150.00 when including the Ferrari drive. Be a responsible citizen, remain vigilant, and let us know if opposite is another example of us you are concerned, then we can enforce a zero tolerance working in partnership and has a Our Gift Vouchers, which are valid for a year, make a great present, especially when choosing the of adult abuse in West Sussex. exciting Ferrari drive option. This will give you the chance to drive 3 laps (app. 7 miles) of Goodwood range of contacts for the many For further information on the different types of abuse Motor Circuit at the wheel of this prestigious car! The only place you can speed is on a racetrack! other organisations we work and how to report a concern, visit our website. For information call 08452 600 650 or visit www.westsussex.gov.uk with. Calendar important dates YOUR PULL OUT AND KEEP GUIDE TO... OCTOBER 2009 NOVEMBER DECEMBER JANUARY 2010 S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 1 2 3 4 5 31 1 2 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Essential West Sussex 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 2009/10 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 29 30 27 28 29 30 31 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 Services FEBRUARY MARCH APRIL MAY S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S S M T W T F S 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 4 5 6 1 2 3 30 31 1 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 HIGHWAYS SCHOOLS SOCIAL CARE LIBRARIES 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 FOR CHILDREN AND HELP 28 28 29 30 31 25 26 27 28 29 30 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 AND ADULTS POINTS
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In an emergency call 999 and tell the operator which UTILITIES service you require (Police, Fire, Ambulance, Mountain ECONOMY YOUTH RECORD TRADING Rescue or Coastguard) Gas Leaks AND JOBS SERVICES OFFICE STANDARDS Emergencies ...... 0800 111 999 Sussex Police (non urgent calls) . . . 0845 60 70 999 Power Failure Crimestoppers ...... 0800 555 111 EDF ...... 0800 783 8866 Floodline ...... 0845 988 1188 Southern Electric ...... 0845 770 80 90 Childline ...... 0800 1111 Water Emergencies Animal Cruelty (RSPCA) ...... 0300 1234 999 Portsmouth Water ...... 023 9247 7999 TRAVEL Southern Water ...... 0845 278 0845 Traveline (for all public transport South East Water ...... 0845 602 1724 PLANNING REGISTRATION RIGHTS COMMUNITY timetable enquiries) ...... 0871 200 22 33 HEALTH SERVICE OF WAY SAFETY National Rail enquiries ...... 08457 48 49 50 NHS Direct ...... 0845 4647 Highways Agency ...... 0845 750 4030 West Sussex PCT ...... 01903 708400 Stagecoach Buses ...... 0845 121 0170 HELPLINES Metrobus ...... 01293 449191 Samaritans ...... 08457 90 90 90 Compass Travel ...... 01903 690025 Domestic violence ...... 0808 2000 247 08717 818181 National Express ...... Hate Incidents ...... 0845 075 1021 Gatwick Airport ...... 0844 335 1802 ICIS (info about health and Shoreham Airport ...... 01273 467374 social care) ...... 0800 859 929 www.westsussex.gov.uk
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Think council meetings are all boring and The County Council has allocated funds to each of its Committees don’t affect you? Well think again. to assist local community projects. In these credit crunch times, they want to help as many Your County Local Committees (CLCs) give you the chance to organisations as possible and encourage them to continue raise real issues that concern you and your neighbourhood, to making their valuable contribution to their community. influence real decisions and see real cash granted to local worthy causes. Any community group, including voluntary organisations, can apply for funding. There’s a network of 14 CLCs covering every square inch of West Sussex. These committees, comprising your local county For more details about the Community Initiative Funding, councillors, each hold up to six public meetings a year at varied contact the CLC team on 01243 752727. venues throughout their area, and you are welcome to attend You don’t have to wait until the next meeting of your County and have your say. Local Committee to make your views known. It is at these meetings, for example, traffic management All you have to do is go to your Committee’s pages on decisions, including parking, speed limits and street trading bans, ‘talk with us’, which can be found on the front page of are made, and local authority school governors are elected. the County Council website: www.westsussex.gov.uk They’ve also given the go-ahead to lorry bans, speed monitoring in built up areas, successfully urged bus companies to change routes to suit local needs and re-position bus stops. Many of the community groups that play a vital role in improving the quality of life in their neighbourhood could be eligible for a grant from their County Local Committee. 24/7 ONLINE
You’re only a couple of clicks away from a wide variety of online County Council services when you visit our 24/7 website – www.westsussex.gov.uk It’s also your direct line to a massive range of round-the-clock up-to-the-minute information, from take off times at Gatwick Airport to current roadworks. Here’s just some of the ways you can be click on the draw with our website.
Library Service: Your local Library is a one-stop shop for CDs, DVDs and games. You can search the Library Service’s catalogue, renew and reserve books and join online.
Registration Service: You can book an appointment to register a birth or death with the Registration Service and order copy certificates online.
Record Office: The guardian of our county’s rich heritage, the majority of the Record Office’s catalogue is available online, along with the Family History Resources guide to help you trace your family tree.
Report it: You can help the County Council’s highways team by reporting anything from SORTED! potholes to overgrown vegetation, as well as faulty streetlights and illuminated signs. When it comes to recycling, we’ve got it sorted in West Sussex. Journey planner: Extensive travel information, including local bus and rail timetables, Indeed, we’re UK pacesetters – our recycling rate is 40 per cent of household rubbish, which is departures from local airports, taxi details, school buses, and travel for disabled passengers, can all above the national average. That means we’re on target to hit 45 per cent – or more – by 2015. be viewed online. There’s also an interactive map with up-to-date information on roadworks and latest travel news. With the opening of our new multi-million pound Materials Recycling Facility in Ford plus the billion pound plant we’re building in Warnham, which will aim to turn rubbish into energy, we’re Have your say: You can help shape how the County Council delivers services to meet your radically reducing the amount of waste that goes to landfill. community’s needs through our website. It includes an email Hotline to the County Council Leader, By working in partnership, West Sussex local authorities will reduce landfill by being leaders in your chance to vote in our latest Quick Poll, and an opportunity to give your views on a variety of waste prevention and recycling and by using the remaining rubbish as a resource. topics from health issues to traffic regulations. To help you help us to maintain our trailblazer status, here’s a simple guide to what you can – and what you can’t – recycle. What’s On: There’s always something going on in West Sussex – as a visit to our What’s On webpages will show. You can put into your What you can’t put into the Shop around: Armchair shoppers can buy a wide range of West Sussex branded goods recycling bins: recycling bin is: including ties, pens, badges and clocks at the County Council eshop. Aerosols. Shredded paper – it’s too small to be recognised by automatic sorting Corrugated card. equipment. Drinks cartons and liquid food cartons. Plastic food trays, yoghurt pots, Foil. margarine and ice cream containers Glass bottle and jars – there’s not much of a market for these – except in Chichester. at the moment. Paper – including newspapers, Plastic film and carrier bags – again magazines, junk mail, brochures, there’s a limited market. Please don’t directories, greetings cards and wrap or bag your recycling – it makes it envelopes. difficult to sort. Plastic bottles. West Crawley Steel and aluminium cans. East Crawley
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West Sussex County Council serves over 780,000 residents providing around 80% of local WSCC Switchboard ...... 01243 777100 Library Renewals ...... 01243 642110 government services for people who live and work in the county or come to visit. We work in For general enquiries not covered by the numbers To renew your library books, DVD & CDs by partnership with seven district and borough councils who provide more localised services below, or to speak to a Councillor or named telephone including waste collection, environmental health, leisure services, housing and determining local member of staff planning applications. We also work closely with many other organisations including the police, Planning ...... 01243 642118 health, voluntary sector and parish and town councils to improve the quality of life for all our 3-in-1 Card ...... 01243 777330 For all planning services within the County communities. The figures below provide a snapshot of some of the things we do. For information on how to apply for a 3 in 1 card Council including Structure plans, Minerals & G (cheap bus fares) for students aged 5-19 Waste plans and all Minerals & Waste matters Run 28 fire stations. The Fire and Rescue Service also deals with road traffic collisions and other emergencies such as flooding; Adult and Community Learning ...... Public Rights of Way ...... 01243 777620 G Deal with around 415,000 tonnes of your household waste; ...... 08450 751009 For information about Public Rights of Ways in G Look after 2,480 miles of road; For information on a wide range of Adult & West Sussex: where they are, annual maintenance Community Learning courses, including ‘Skills for and rights of way queries G Maintain 62,000 street lights and 11,000 illuminated traffic signs; Life’ courses in literacy, numeracy and English for G Work hard to ensure the environment of West Sussex is managed sustainably – including Record Office ...... 01243 753600 speakers of other languages maintaining 2,500 miles of public rights of way and cycle routes; To access records on the heritage of West Sussex G Blue Badges ...... 01243 777653 held from Anglo-Saxon times to present day Provide 36 libraries, 3 mobile libraries, 2 Early Years book buses and support for 23 Help Points; For information, advice and guidance on Disabled G Provide social care to around 19,000 adults and older people annually, including about 46,000 Blue Badges, which offer parking concessions Registration ...... 01243 642122 hours of home care each week; To register births and deaths, book civil G ceremonies, order copy certificates and for Provide social care for vulnerable children; Children’s Information Service ...... general enquiries about the Registration Service G ...... 01243 777807 Provide education for over 103,949 children and young people aged 4 to 19 in 287 schools; Everything you need to know about Early Years G Social Care ...... 01243 642555 Provide free transport to school for 11,000 children and alternative options for another 100,000; provision, childcare for children up to 14, (18 for For information on all social care services for both G children with disabilities) and other services for Support over 400 children and young people with severe disabilities; adults and children, or to speak to your nearest families G Support over 600 early education and childcare settings in the maintained, private, voluntary and social care team or Occupational Therapist independent sectors; and over 1100 childminders; Environment ...... 01243 642119 Schools and Youth Services ...... 08450 751007 G Supports a growing network of children and family centres throughout the county in partnership For advice on environmental matters including For a range of information, from school with other statutory and voluntary organisations; wildlife conservation, climate change and heritage admissions and transport arrangements, to G and historical environments Trading Standards deals with over 30,000 requests for advice and assistance from West Sussex special educational needs and the Youth Service consumers and businesses G Fire & Rescue Service ...... 0800 328 6487 Student Support ...... 01243 642141 Provide Occupational Therapy assessments and services to around 16,000 customers a year. To request a free home fire safety check For calls relating to grants and loans available to students in their 2nd year onwards who are Highways ...... 01243 642105 resident in West Sussex and Portsmouth To report all highways faults from broken streetlights or fallen trees to cracked paving slabs, Trading Standards ...... 01243 642124 road defects and many more For West Sussex businesses needing advice on District and Borough Councils Trading Standards legislation. (For consumer Jobs ...... 01243 642140 advice call Consumer Direct on 08454 04 05 06) Call to request information and application details ARUN DISTRICT COUNCIL CRAWLEY BOROUGH MID SUSSEX DISTRICT for all vacancies within WSCC Waste Management ...... 01243 642106 Tel: (01903) 737500 COUNCIL COUNCIL For enquiries on household waste and recycling, www.arun.gov.uk Tel: 01293 438000 Tel: 01444 458166 www.crawley.gov.uk www.midsusssex.gov.uk Library Enquiries...... 01243 642111 including site opening hours, landfill activity, ADUR DISTRICT COUNCIL For general information including opening hours waste recovery and mobile waste disposal Tel: 01273 263000 HORSHAM DISTRICT WORTHING BOROUGH and individual library services services www.adur.gov.uk COUNCIL COUNCIL Tel: 01403 215100 Tel: 01903 239999 CHICHESTER DISTRICT www.horsham.gov.uk www.worthing.gov.uk Write to us at: COUNCIL West Sussex County Council, County Hall, West Street, Chichester, West Sussex PO19 1RQ Tel: 01243 785166 www.chichester.gov.uk visit our website at www.westsussex.gov.uk 13
The aim is simple - to stop so much rubbish going into CLEANER the bin. We’ve got lots of advice and ideas to inspire you to halt the heaps of rubbish that end up in the dustbin GREENER and do your bit to make West Sussex a greener, cleaner BETTER! place to live, as well as ways to save you money! FOOD WASTE DIGESTERS NAPPY TALK Nappies are a big part of being a baby! New Food waste makes up approximately 31% of your dustbin, but there are two ways you parents need to make the decision whether to can reduce your cooked food waste including meat, bones and dairy, from going in the use cotton, disposable or biodegradable nappies. bin - the Green Cone and the Green Johanna. Disposable nappies are convenient but The two digesters are very different and may not suit all households, so check out the detailed make up approximately 5% information on installation & of all household rubbish specification on the Green and in West Sussex we Cone website, but as a quick throw away a staggering guide - 77,000 disposable nappies ● Both Green Cone & everyday. Perhaps a Green Johanna take all food for details on how to claim your happy medium is to waste cooked & uncooked £100 of free cotton nappies - combine the two ● Green Johanna also takes contact: and use disposables garden waste which turns 01243 642106 or www.betttertomorrows.org when you are out into compost and about, and ● Green Cone produces a cotton at home. minimal residue which soaks into the soil ● Green Cone needs to be KEEP placed in the sun on well drained soil A DIARY ● Green Johanna needs to be placed in the shade and We need volunteers to is suitable for all soil types complete a food waste diary - when you return your ! completed diary we will send SPECIAL OFFER you a FREE recipe book. Telephone 01243 FOOD WASTE DIGESTER FOOD WASTE COMPOSTER 642106 for more details.
AND SAVE MONEY TOO! You probably don’t think of yourself as a law-breaker, but the amount of food that is thrown away each year is almost criminal. The Love Food Hate Waste campaign aims to educate people to use food wisely and so less is chucked away. The average British household throws away about £600 worth of food each year. EVERY DAY in the UK the following food is thrown away: ● 1 million slices of ham ● 2.8 million tomatoes ● 1.2 million sausages ● 7 million slices of bread Please note digging required ● to install the Green Cone 5 million potatoes ● 1.6 million bananas ● 4.4 million apples Buy a Green Cone for just £14.95 or a Green Johanna for £19.95 PLAN YOUR MENUS including delivery. Offer ends 31st0800 March0 4052 2010.6 04622. 0or telephone052 Planning meals and constantly checking your fridge and food VisitC awww.greencone.comll 08000 052 0462 cupboards is the main way you can save money. It means you or log on to don’t buy more than you need and by keeping an eye on dates you BAGSorrow OFs.o TASTErg.uk can use food before it becomes unsafe to eat. www.bettertomThese roomy, environmentally- friendly jute bags are perfect to For more tips and recipes visit SIZE carry all your shopping! www.lovefoodhatewaste.com MATTERS Getting your quantities right is often Buy one of our ‘Bags of Taste’ the key to waste-free cooking. Bread, for just £2.95 each or rice, potatoes and pasta often end up two for £5 plus 50p postage and packaging. in the bin because too much is cooked in any one go. Visit Call 01243 756842, visit www.lovefoodhatewaste.com www.westsussex.gov.uk/taste for easy ways to measure or email: [email protected] the amounts. Quote code SCBD09 when ordering. Offer ends 31 March 2010.
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Welcome to our new-style What’s On pages, with details of some of the great family events that are going on this season. Find out below where you can go to be horrified at Halloween and ensure your Bonfire Night goes with a bang! 30 - 31 OCTOBER: Halloween Fun Harbour Visitor Centre, Selsey Road, for accompanied children, including a scary Sidlesham, Selsey, PO20 7NE, 5pm-7pm. Spooks ghost train ride! Main event on 31 October. Booking required; tickets available from £3 Amberley Museum and Heritage Centre, per person or £10 per family (2 adults and 2 01798 831370, children), 01243 641508, email and www.amberleymuseum.co.uk [email protected] or ★★★★★★★★★ www.westsussex.gov.uk/paghamharbour Sparklers! 31 OCTOBER: Fireworks ★★★★★★★★★ and Bonfire; Littlehampton 31 OCTOBER: 23 OCTOBER - 1 NOVEMBER: Bonfire Society presents an Screaming Shocktober Fest - Fright by evening of entertainment Success! Join a Night; Tulleys Halloween Festival turns up including a torchlight hair-raising, the scare factor. The event is aimed at procession, mammoth bonfire, lantern-lit teenagers and adults and is not for those seafront firework display and adventure through with a nervous disposition! funfair. Littlehampton Town the grounds, and Attractions include a ride into the forest and Seafront, from 5pm. meet spooky aboard the Haunted Hayride, experience www.lbs.me.uk characters along your worst nightmares in the unbelievable the way. Suitable for BBQ, hog roast, tombola, lucky dip, glow ★★★★★★★ Field of Screams and explore the corridors ages 8+; very scary. lights and more, Pagham Yacht Club beach, 31 OCTOBER: of the Haunted House. All children must be Pagham, PO21 4SY. No charge, but donations Frightfest Halloween Loads of awesome attractions, one accompanied by an welcomed. 7.30pm-9.30pm. Call Rhoda Family Fun, including terrifyingly entertaining night out! Check the adult. Event starts 01243 265014 or Lydia 01243 266694, lantern carving and a face website for times. £12.50- £16.50. Tulleys from 6pm. £7 per Farm,Turners Hill Road, Turners Hill, Crawley, www.arun.gov.uk/whatson painting competition. There ★★★★★★★★★ will also be games, pony person. To book call RH10 4PE, 01342 718472, 01903 881530; www.tulleyshalloween.co.uk rides, and a plant sale, plus 24 OCTOBER – 1 NOVEMBER: refreshments such as pumpkin Arundel Wetland ★★★★★★★★★ Halloween Week, including Witch’s soup, pies, bread and scones. 2pm-7pm, Centre, Mill Road, 24 OCTOBER: Fireworks Display House and Pumpkin Trail. Borde Hill, Ferring Country Centre, Rife Way, Ferring, Arundel, BN18 9PB, www.wwt.org.uk and Bonfire; Enjoy a evening at the Haywards Heath, RH16 1XP, 01444 450326 BN12 5JZ, 01903 245078, ★★★★★★★ beach with a good firework display, bonfire, www.bordehill.co.uk www.ferringcountrycentre.org 31 October: All Hallows Eve at ★★★★★★★★★ Buchan Park, Crawley 3pm till 5pm - Come 31 OCTOBER: Halloween Trails and enjoy this special evening for all the and Tales; come along if you dare! Make family. Pumpkin carving, mask making and lanterns, enjoy soup and stories and then spooky stories. Adults must accompany children but get in for free.
Advertisement head out on a candlelit walk. There will also be spooky storytelling. Be sure to wrap up www.westsussex.gov.uk/buchanpark or warm, and bring a torch. Meet at Pagham call 01293 542088. We cannot accept responsibility Visit www.westsussex.gov.uk for details of these for events we publicise. Please phone venues beforehand and dozens of other exciting events right to check information. across the county!
One lucky person and four runners-up are in for a real Christmas treat worth over £300 thanks to Chichester Festival Theatre. Our first prize package includes: ★ 2 top price tickets to ‘The Snow Queen’ on 21 December at 7.30 pm complete with signed cast programme and two ices in the interval ★ A 2 course meal with bottle of wine at The Brasserie in the Park at the theatre Four Runners-Up will also win two top price tickets for the same performance The Snow Queen, by Hans Christian Anderson, is a timeless, enchanting tale for all ages. It is being brought up-to-date by Chichester Festival Youth Theatre in a new musical adaptation by Bryony Lavery and Jason Carr - the Tickets to see same creative team behind its acclaimed 2008’s A Christmas Carol. For the chance to win, all you have to do is answer the following question: Who is the creative team behind this year’s production of The Snow Queen? Please email your answer and details to [email protected] or send to Theatre Competition, Communications Unit, 140B, County Hall, Chichester, PO19 1RQ by 16 November. visit our website at www.westsussex.gov.uk 15 SEASONAL DELIGHTS Bright and bracing autumn and winter days are the perfect time to visit our Take a journey along beautiful countryside. There’s plenty to do at Buchan Country Park at Crawley and Pagham Harbour. Here’s some of the events you can take part in at each venue over the next couple of months. the Downs Link Buchan Christmas ‘shop’ Shark Egg Case Hunt - - Sunday 6 and 13 Tuesday 27 October, 11am - The new free Downs Link route December 10am till 3pm - Spend the half-term holiday guide is out now. Visit the local Buchan ‘shop’ searching for tidal treasures. An easy-to-use for a range of locally made Find out which species they leaflet, it displays a festive treats. come from, and discover a simplified main route Solstice Stroll - Sunday 20 wealth of other shoreline for people wanting to December 2.30pm till 5pm - surprises. Booking essential. explore this A 2.5 mile walk on almost Winter Birdwatching picturesque and Buchan the shortest day of the year. Workshop - Saturday 21 historic trail. Country Park: Explore all four corners of November, 9am till 1pm - A Linking the North the park, discover its history relaxed workshop aimed at Downs Way and Enjoy the 69 hectares of and learn about the wildlife. those wishing to develop South Downs Way, countryside, a haven for Return to the centre for their birdwatching skills. Cost this mainly flat route quiet recreation and mulled juice and mince pies. is £8 per person (£5 for is 37 miles long and wildlife. There are events Price £4 per person or group friends of Pagham Harbour) ideal for walkers, for the whole family: tickets (four people) £12. and £2 for binocular hire. cyclists and horse Volunteer Winter Work All events start at the Wildfowl and Wader riders. It’s easily Programme - Saturday 10 accessible from public transport, and you don’t have to Countryside Centre. For Walk - Saturday 10 October, Saturday 7 tackle the whole thing at once as the route can be explored more information visit December 10.30am till November, Saturday 12 in shorter sections. www.westsussex.gov.uk/buc 12.30pm - Join the warden December - Get your hands It follows an old railway line, which was opened in the hanpark or call 01293 for a two hour amble along dirty and help wildlife on 1860s and was in use for over 100 years. The route passes 542088. the Reserve in search for these practical conservation through a number of pretty villages in Sussex and Surrey, migrant and overwintering tasks. No experience and goes through ancient wooded countryside, farmland wildfowl and waders. necessary. Pagham and across the flat coastal plain. Wildlife is abundant along Binocular hire £2. Upside-down fires & Harbour the way, including stoats, foxes, butterflies and birds. Binocular Sale - Sunday 20 storm kettle - Saturday 28 Local Nature The guide is available from Tourist Information Centres, December 10am till 4pm. Libraries and Help Points and on our website, or call November 10am till 1pm - Reserve: For more information on 01243 642119. Learn to build a fire that This is an internationally all events at the Harbour, and burns for three hours important site for nature to find out how to book, visit without touching it. No conservation, featuring www.westsussex.gov.uk/pa matches required! Tickets £4 plant and animal habitats ghamharbour or call 01243 per person, or £12 for a of global rarity. 641508. group ticket (four persons). Advertisement STAIRLIFTS FROM
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He was 14-years-old and quite emphatic… he wanted Lisa Bourne to foster him. The boy’s mum - she was single and Lisa’s best friend - had No limits to recently died, leaving a question mark about where he was going to live. Lisa said: “He was quite determined so I agreed. I became his foster carer and in the ‘No Limits’! end he stayed with me for more than four years.” Work on the No Limits That was in 2000. Since then, Lisa, who lives in Shoreham by Sea, has followed a campaign to recruit people career as a foster carer of teenagers. She chooses the word ‘career’ deliberately. to social work positions has “Because that’s what fostering is. It has a career structure and there is considerable new schemes in the pipeline. scope for progressing, gaining NVQ qualifications and even going on to help train These include the others. development of a ‘return to “This is all backed up by round-the-clock support, so you are never on your practice’ course for those own,” she said. interested in returning to Lisa - who has a son, 15, living at home, and a daughter, 21, who recently made children’s social work. It is her a grandmother - is currently caring for a 15-year-old boy from Iraq and an 18- due to start later this year year-old girl, who has been with her for three years. The boy goes to a local and is being developed with school. partners including the “We’re learning so much from each other by sharing our different cultures Children’s Workforce and languages,” said Lisa. The girl is now in her third year at college. Development Council “Getting young people into education is one of the most rewarding (CWDC) who can be aspects of fostering. You work with them. You plan with them,” said Lisa. contacted on 0300 123 1220 “I accept there is at first some playing truant. But I know where they hang out for more details. and will personally take them to school. In the end, they’re saying, ‘Here she We are also part of the comes again’. But this persistence shows them I care.” CWDC graduate bursary Lisa particularly enjoys the challenge of working with teenagers. scheme and are sponsoring “They come from a wide variety of backgrounds, which means you must be up to five Masters students flexible - you must be able to adapt to their way of thinking. to become social workers “I’ve cared for pregnant teenagers and there have been teenagers who have through Brighton and Sussex been self-harming. I got them to write down their feelings to find out why they Universities. were self-harming. This helped them to stop. People with experience “I aim to get onto their level and find out what they want without of working in social care can study for the BA in Social dictating to them. Work through the Open “Working with teenagers isn’t always easy - ask any teenager’s mum and University in a scheme to be dad! But it is rewarding and satisfying as you help them to achieve and build launched later this year. the foundation for a positive future. She added; “This takes two people - Look for adverts in the local the teenager and yourself working together.” press and on the No Limits For a free fostering information pack, call website for more 0800 121 6508 or go to information. www.westsussex.gov.uk/fostering The website also features A fostering career ● Some young people over 16 are also cared for in all current vacancies and Supported Lodgings, which is what Lisa is now providing for has videos of social workers talking about their job. Visit the 18 year old girl. www.nolimits@westsussex. For more information call 01403 246400. co.uk
The West Sussex Adult & Change your story - like Liz! Community Learning Having completed several adult education courses successfully Liz decided it was Advertisement Service, as well as time to try something creative and last Autumn enrolled on the introduction to offering an extensive silver craft course. With a supportive tutor Liz quickly mastered many new skills in range of Art courses, time to make some of her own Christmas presents! “I was surprised how quickly I offers a full range of was able to create things and made a ring for each of my children and another piece Craft courses including of jewellery for my niece. It was so lovely to be able to give a personalised gift I had many Saturday made and learn a new skill at the same time.” Following this success Liz also enrolled workshops. on a painting & enamelling course to further extend her creative skills.
If, like Liz, you’d like to get creative, why not try one of our one-day courses. These range from introductory taster sessions to 35-week courses that can lead to accreditation. Some of the new and GetGet creativecreative exciting Saturday courses on offer this term include: Course Location Date Felt Making - Introductory Workshop Chichester 24 Oct Calligraphy - Write Your Own Greetings Cards Steyning 24 Oct inin timetime forfor Jewellery - Making with metal Steyning 24 Oct Everyone Can Paint - Autumn Colours Crawley 31 Oct Pottery - Creative Workshop Burgess Hill 7 Nov Needlefelt - Christmas Decorations Petworth 7 Nov Christmas! Floristry - Christmas Festive Flowers Storrington 7 Nov Christmas! Botanical illustration Workshop Horsham 14 Nov Printmaking for Beginners Littlehampton 14 Nov Silk Painting Workshop Bognor Regis 21 Nov Teddy Bear Making Bognor Regis 21 Nov Seasonal Landscapes for Cards Burgess Hill 21 Nov Floristry - Christmas Flowers for the home Burgess Hill 21 Nov Origami - Making Christmas Decorations Crawley 28 Nov
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Designing a new spacecraft or talking about time travel are all in a day’s lessons for students at Holy Trinity Church of England School in Crawley. Science school The school is one of eight in the county that has science specialist status. It means that alongside all the usual subjects science is given special priority. The aim is to give the children a good basic lifts off education, but in addition enhanced skills and knowledge that will help them to enter the world of science and technology when they leave school. For pupils it means completing a series of special projects as part of their normal lessons. These include studying stories about space travel before using maths and scientific calculations to design their own spacecraft. In English and History lessons they study time travel FACT BOX Any council before going to physics lessons where they investigate maintained the possibility of making a time machine in the future. secondary school Headteacher Peter Wickert said: “We are not just in England can creating scientists of the future. We are teaching students apply to become a specialist school in that all subjects and knowledge are connected. They do one of 10 areas: arts, not have to be scientists or mathematicians to benefit business and enterprise, from what is a complete educational experience.” engineering, humanities, language, mathematics and Other science specialism schools in West Sussex are: computing, music, science, Chichester High School for Girls, Downlands sports and technology. Schools Community School, Hassocks, Midhurst Rother College, can also combine any two specialisms. Oathall Community College, Haywards Heath and For more information Tanbridge House School, Horsham, Manhood see our website. Community College, Selsey, and The Angmering School.
home, stopped running away Hannah, 14, lives with Sarah and her husband Kevin Council’s service for young and Jon and Karen reported her mum Sarah after her individually and together in people, particularly with positive changes in terms of parents separated. She was meetings with the school. reference to her drug habit. their parenting and their described as volatile and This was followed by the She was diagnosed with We are relationship with Lauren. verbally aggressive. There whole family deciding on a additional learning needs and were also issues around her consistent approach to is now receiving support in Jack, 14, lives with his behaviour at school and parenting by both Sarah and school. adoptive mother Sue and has using drugs. Sarah was Kevin, even though they When support from the Attention Deficit struggling to cope with were now living apart. team ended, the situation Hyperactive Disorder. He Hannah’s behaviour. Sarah also received was more stable and Sarah family was displaying increasingly The Family Resource individual support from and Kevin were working families Team worked with both Connexions, the County together effectively. THERE’S no place like before they challenging behaviour and home … this familiar had associated school reach breaking point. Advertisement saying has a particular Here’s three examples of difficulties. resonance for our Family how the team was able to The team offered Resource Team. help (names have been immediate initial crisis It’s there to help when changed to protect support to Sue, followed by home is not so sweet - anonymity): weekly one-to-one when, in fact, there is a high risk of family Open breakdown and young people are on the verge of going into care. To help prevent this, Evenings team members at Chichester College work with the whole family, helping them to resolve CHICHESTER CAMPUS relationship Tuesday 13th October 2009 (4.30-8.30pm) difficulties and also Thursday 11th March 2010 (4.30-7.30pm) offer parenting advice or individual sessions with the BRINSBURY CAMPUS young person. Wednesday 7th October 2009 (5-7pm) The team Wednesday 3rd March 2010 (5-7pm) achieves a high success rate - in 2007-08, 81% of young people Dad Jon meetings with her, which put remained or returned to and stepmother Karen the focus on family living with their family or wanted 15-year-old Lauren relationships and school extended family network to be put into foster care issues. This helped her following support from the because of her challenging manage Jack’s behaviour. team, but capacity has been behaviour, which included Similar meetings were also limited due to the small size running away. held with him. of this countywide team. The The relationship between The home situation service is now being Karen and Lauren had significantly improved and expanded and by the end of broken down and the Sue told the team: “Your this year there will be three parents felt they could no contribution at that locally based teams able to longer cope. frightening time was Come and see our great offer more immediate The Family Resource facilities and chat to our friendly support to families in crisis, invaluable and I feel it Team held a series of stopped the problems staff. Find out all about the exciting courses an extended out of hours sessions with the whole available and how we can help you. college service at evenings and escalating. I had run out of family to work out a energy and confidence at For more info call: (01243) 786321 weekends, and more solution. Chichester Campus | Westgate Fields | Chichester | West Sussex | PO19 1SB that time.” or visit: www.chichester.ac.uk Brinsbury Campus | North Heath | Pulborough | West Sussex | RH20 1DL preventative support to help Lauren remained at 18 visit our website at www.westsussex.gov.uk No Tricks! and galleries of similar stature, A drive is taking place throughout West it receives no subsidies or Sussex to reduce anti-social behaviour in the grants from Central build up to Halloween and Bonfire Night. Government, and only 25% of Firefighters and police officers are: its annual budget through ✓ Visiting school assemblies to highlight the dangers public funding. of playing with fireworks in public, which is against A significant portion of the law. revenue has always been ✓ Displaying posters carrying similar messages in found through admission schools and Libraries. charges, but to make the ✓ Visiting retailers urging them not to sell eggs, flour Gallery as accessible as or tomatoes to young people around this time. possible, it offers half price They are also liaising with social housing landlords entry every Tuesday, and each and sheltered housing schemes to Thursday evening from 5pm identify vulnerable and older until 8pm. people who are being offered ART The Gallery also has a door stickers saying they will strong membership of Friends who, not respond to ‘trick or treat’ for a small fee, get free entry. calls on Halloween. FOR Despite these initiatives, those This activity will be backed involved with the Gallery have up by teams of police officers, always wanted to make entry to the Collection - often cited as one firefighters and neighbourhood of the best collections of Modern wardens patrolling selected The award-winningALL Pallant House British art in the country - free. areas and talking to young Gallery in Chichester has launched a To find out more about the people. campaign to provide free entry for ‘Free Entry by 2012’ campaign, or Action is everyone by 2012. to make a donation, contact Elaine being stepped Since reopening in 2006 it has Bentley on up in a co- welcomed over 200,000 visitors from [email protected] or call ordinated drive. across the UK and abroad. 01243 774557. “The aim is to However, unlike many other museums www.pallant.org.uk significantly reduce criminal damage and increase the confidence in BETTER TRAVEL public agencies Here’s some of the ways we are working with our partners to make it among older and more easier, safer and greener on the roads and public transport in West Sussex: vulnerable Access for All cyclists to travel by train Each bus stop has its own streetlights include: people. It is now easier than ever thanks to a number of unique 8 letter code that ● Up to date, energy for wheelchair users and improvements at several begins with the letters wsx. efficient equipment south coast railway stations. All you have to do is text the ● Improved visibility and At Worthing station the bus stop code to 84268. reduced light pollution at improvements include a new Within a few seconds you night access ramp leading to the will receive a text with the ● Safer streets and reduced Advertisement main booking hall. There are ‘real’ time of the next three crime also fully automatic doors at buses that are due at your ● Fewer burning hours Seat belt wearing saves over the station entrance stop. If for any reason the ● Dimming lights to reduce 2000 lives a year. as well as at carbon emissions the rear of ● Savings the ticket ‘real’ time the bus should through the hall leading to arrive is not available, you will large- the platforms. receive instead the scheduled scale of the The ticket office has been times shown in the printed contract. completely modernised and bus timetable. The terms of includes ticket windows Each text will cost 25p the contract which move downwards at plus your normal SMS address environ- the press of a button so they sending charge. mental issues and are easier for passengers in The 8 letter code can be carbon reduction or wheelchairs. found on small signs at bus energy savings, and The £265,000 project stops in Crawley and although the lighting was jointly funded by the Worthing. The service will will be greatly improved County Council, the be rolled out to other towns there will be no Department for Transport later this year. increase in energy use. (DfT), Network Rail, and More information at Southern Railways as part of www.westsussex.gov.uk/ Get your 3 in1 the DfT’s Access for All textfortimes card! More than 33,500 young scheme. The future’s bright Meanwhile, at Angmering, people have now signed The latest energy efficient Bosham and West Worthing up for a 3in1 card. Five to equipment will be replacing stations the County Council 19 year olds, who are in 68,000 streetlights, has funded new secure full time education in West illuminated signs and bollards covered cycle shelters for Sussex, are eligible for the in West Sussex over the next customers wanting to leave free card. It entitles them five years. their bikes while they travel to cheaper bus travel and The County Council, in Always wear a seat belt and fit by train. acts as a proof of age. conjunction with Hampshire a child restraint correctly. This saves lives Hundreds of shops and Text for times County Council and businesses in the county and reduces injuries in the event of a collision. A new service means Southampton City Council, offer discounts to residents in Crawley and has signed a £225 million 25 cardholders too. Find out Worthing can find out year private finance initiative more and download an exactly when the next bus is (PFI) with Tay Valley Lighting. application form at www.SussexSaferRoads.gov.uk due. The focus for the www.yourspace Safer Roads Safer Communities Sharing the Responsibility The ‘Text for Times’ following 20 years will be on westsussex.co.uk or call service is quick and easy and maintaining and operating the 01243 777330. Visit www.thinkroadsafety.gov.uk for up to date information about the laws on seat belt and child restraints. gives you access to bus new lights to a high standard. information wherever you are. The benefits of the new visit our website at www.westsussex.gov.uk 19 Tolls but no trolls Houghton Bridge, Amberley ■ for West Sussex! e’re not sure if there were any trolls living Norfolk Bridge and Tollgate, Shoreham ★ Wunder toll roads in West Sussex in times past, but we do know that the county was criss-crossed with toll roads like the one in the Three Billy Goats Gruff fable. Here we showcase some of the photos of tollhouses and toll keepers that are on our West High St. Crawley Sussex Past Pictures website, which has over 10,000 images cataloguing the county’s past. The Old Shoreham Tollbridge has been recently restored, making the Grade II* listed structure safe for at least another 30 years. The bridge over the River Adur dates back to 1781. It was closed to traffic in 1968 but is now a bridleway for walkers, cyclists and horse riders. Our first photo shows the former Toll Cottage at Long Furlong ■ Cocking which was on the Midhurst to Chichester Toll Cottage at Cocking road, maintained by the Sussex Turnpike Trust of 1749. A turnpike was the pike or long stick that was held ★ across the road, and only raised or turned aside when Norfolk Bridge Toll 1926 the traveller paid the toll. Other toll houses were at Long Furlong, Clapham, High Street, Crawley, on Houghton Bridge at Amberley, and in Horsham, Storrington, Goring and Findon. The toll keeper is pictured on Norfolk Bridge at Shoreham with his ticket machine, accepting a fee from a woman driver in an open-topped car around 1926. Visit our website to view the Past Pictures web pages. ★ © Marlipins Museum, Shoreham-by-Sea www.sussexpast.co.uk ■ © Weald & Downland Open Air Museum www.wealddown.co.uk There’s so much in it! 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