The community magazine for the Issue 33 September 2011

A new era for Island schools Pupils celebrate landmark project

Also inside: How your waste collections will change ANNUAL REPORT 2010/2011

Transforming social care Fire service modernisation The council embarked on a project to make the fire and rescue SUMMARY STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT service more resilient through employing more whole-time Summary financial personnel to reduce the reliance on position for 2010/2011 S 2010/2011 retained (part-time) In July 2010, the government announced an • An authorisation panel crews. emergency budget and a comprehensive control recruitment, resulting was in vacancy been taken into account while closing set up to This project spending review. As a result, the council management savings of £3.384 million. the 2010/2011 accounts. This relates included the had to respond to reduced government to all costs incurred during 2010/2011, upgrading of funding mid-year, as well as anticipated • A review adjustments for staff who had received budget pressures of £4.061 million of the performance Fire Station and the communications areas achieved a termination letter from the council on in adult social care, £0.559 million in and purchase of several budget savings of £0.293 million and a children’s placements, and £0.592 million or before 31 March 2011, and a provision new state of the art procurement moratorium and contract in school transport, and the impact of the for those staff identified as ‘at risk’ and pumping appliances economic downturn (in terms of reduced review delivered savings of £1.353 million. for who a reasonable estimate of likely The national target for assisting vulnerable individuals to move to and other apparatus. personal budgets was achieved and the council remains on target income from fees and charges, including costs could be made during the closure of The service also • Reductions in WELCOME to deliver personal budgets for all those eligible, by April 2013. A £1.030 million in parking income). interest accounts process. won the British levels of capital spending, paid and from the new partnership involving Age Concern IW was also selected as a To offset these, a number of measures lower Quality Foundation’s repayment of external debt contributed ‘user led organisation’ to support vulnerable adults on the Island. were taken to control spending, address In overall terms, the savings offset the prestigious Southern to a saving at the year end of £3.7 million. pressure areas and mitigate the immediate additional costs incurred, leaving a net The council also established a community wellbeing and social Excellence impact of the emergency budget: underspend of £787,000 in the budget The community care directorate to embrace the ‘Think Local, Act Personal’ agenda, Award. • Redundancy and which seeks to promote an individual’s choice about how money amounting to £2.669 other million termination have also at the year end. This amount therefore magazine for the is spent on their care. Where the money comes from costs improves the council’s general fund Local housing Revenue funding sources balance at the year end. Isle of Wight September edition of One Island magazine Dedicated schools grant Regeneration and the economy During the year work began on the Pan Meadows project (pictured Formula grants 2009/2010 Issue 33 below), a scheme that will create hundreds of local affordable £000s In difficult national economic conditions, the council remained Other government grants % 2010/2011 September 2011 homes as part of a sustainable community development. The 74,162 committed to work to assist the local economy through schemes Council tax 21% £000s council was also involved in bringing back into use 321 properties 59,129 % including Pan Meadows at Newport and the highways’ PFI. Charges, rents, other income and adjustments 16% 76,371 that were previously empty. 109,690 21% The council gained a seat on the board of the new S Total 30% 61,397 69,012 16% Local Enterprise Partnership which means the Island is strongly 19% 116,781 49,825 32% Welcome to the September the start of the new era in represented on the successor body to the South East Englandolent How we spent it 14% 70,944 Gross revenue expenditure 19% Development Agency. 361,818 42,954 Culture, environment, regulatory and planning 12% Also developed were proposals and a bid for government 368,447 funding to set up a Solent Ocean Energy Centre that will create a Children and education 2009/2010 £000s facility to develop and test tidal energy equipment. Housing services (including benefits) % 2010/2011 43,857 New developments in which the council played a part included Fire and rescue service 12% £000s 141,370 % issue of One Island magazine. education on the Island, with the new Waitrose store in East and the new Vestas Research Adult social care 39% 38,125 64,844 10% and Development facility at Stag Lane, Newport, while assistance Highways, roads and transport 18% 151,753 has also been given to help GKN expand at Whippingham. 6,960 41% 2% 63,080 Core and democratic services 17% 57,175 16% Non-distributed costs 8,328 2% 25,091 60,434 Total 7% 17% 21,668 22,649 6% 6% In this edition we feature a the launch of the two-tier 853 0.3% 21,377 5.8% 2010/2011 capital spending – Total £31,263,000 361,818 2,701 0.7% 368,447 Delivering better services Highways (£6,863,000) Statement by director of resourc The information contained in this summary Fire service (£1,707,000) special three-page annual primary and secondary The council made significant progress in its aim to reduce the is taken from the draft statement of accounts es cost of providing services to residents – in the last financial year Other environmental as at 30 June 2011, which is being audited by identifying an on-going reduction of £2.52 million of back-office (£2,166,000) the Audit Commission – the government’s savings. public spending watchdog. A final opinion was A new era This process included reducing the number of buildings from Culture and leisure due to be given by 30 September 2011, and which it operates and developing internal shared services that will (£971,000) 14 One Island a final version (amended as per the auditors’ save £125,000 a year. A process to reduce the number of senior recommendations) will be approved by the report section, giving you school system and the Children and education managers was also agreed. council’s audit committee and then published (£12,761,000) on iwight.com for Island . I therefore certify that this Community services summary statement of accounts presents a true (£3,533,000) and fair view of the financial position of the authority at the accounting date and its income Resources (£3,262,000) and expenditure for the year ended 31 March schools details of the council’s significant changes at school 2011.

Pupils celebrate One Island 15 landmark project finances in 2010/2011, the sites to make this possible (see

Also inside: priorities we focused on, and School Report, pages 10 and 11). and details How your waste collections will change our key challenges looking to Also look out for the pages about our consultation on future the future. on the new waste collection care provision for older people on This issue also marks arrangements due early in 2012, the Island.

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2 One Island ANNUAL REPORT 2010 /2011 Transforming social care Fire service modernisation The council embarked on a project to make the fire and rescue SUMMARY STATEMENT OF ACCOUNT service more resilient through employing more whole-time Summary financial personnel to reduce the reliance on position for 2010/2011 S 2010/2011 retained (part-time) In July 2010, the government announced an • An authorisation panel crews. emergency budget and a comprehensive control recruitment, resulting was in vacancy been taken into account while closing set up to This project spending review. As a result, the council management savings of £3.384 million. the 2010/2011 accounts. This relates included the had to respond to reduced government to all costs incurred during 2010/2011, upgrading of Ryde funding mid-year, as well as anticipated • A review adjustments for staff who had received budget pressures of £4.061 million of the performance Fire Station and the communications areas achieved a termination letter from the council on in adult social care, £0.559 million in and purchase of several budget savings of £0.293 million and a children’s placements, and £0.592 million or before 31 March 2011, and a provision new state of the art procurement moratorium and contract in school transport, and the impact of the for those staff identified as ‘at risk’ and pumping appliances economic downturn (in terms of reduced review delivered savings of £1.353 million. for who a reasonable estimate of likely The national target for assisting vulnerable individuals to move to and other apparatus. personal budgets was achieved and the council remains on target income from fees and charges, including costs could be made during the closure of The service also • Reductions in to deliver personal budgets for all those eligible, by April 2013. A £1.030 million in parking income). interest accounts process. CONTENTS won the British levels of capital spending, paid and from the new partnership involving Age Concern IW was also selected as a To offset these, a number of measures lower Quality Foundation’s repayment of external debt contributed ‘user led organisation’ to support vulnerable adults on the Island. were taken to control spending, address In overall terms, the savings offset the prestigious Southern to a saving at the year end of £3.7 million. pressure areas and mitigate the immediate additional costs incurred, leaving a net The council also established a community wellbeing and social England Excellence impact of the emergency budget: underspend of £787,000 in the budget care directorate to embrace the ‘Think Local, Act Personal’ agenda, Award. • Redundancy and which seeks to promote an individual’s choice about how money amounting to £2.669 other million termination have also at the year end. This amount therefore is spent on their care. Where the money comes from costs improves the council’s general fund Local housing Revenue funding sources balance at the year end. Dedicated schools grant Regeneration and the economy During the year work began on the Pan Meadows project (pictured Formula grants 2009/2010 below), a scheme that will create hundreds of local affordable £000s In difficult national economic conditions, the council remained Other government grants % 2010/2011 homes as part of a sustainable community development. The 74,162 committed to work to assist the local economy through schemes Council tax 21% £000s FIRST WORD council was also involved in bringing back into use 321 properties 59,129 % including Pan Meadows at Newport and the highways’ PFI. Charges, rents, other income and adjustments 16% 76,371 that were previously empty. 109,690 21% The council gained a seat on the board of the new S Total 30% 61,397 69,012 16% Local Enterprise Partnership which means the Island is strongly 19% 116,781 How we spent it 49,825 32% represented on the successor body to the South East Englandolent 14% 70,944 Gross revenue expenditure 19% Development Agency. 361,818 42,954 Culture, environment, regulatory and planning 12% Also developed were proposals and a bid for government 368,447 Council and community news funding to set up a Solent Ocean Energy Centre that will create a Children and education 2009/2010 £000s facility to develop and test tidal energy equipment. Housing services (including benefits) % 2010/2011 43,857 New developments in which the council played a part included Fire and rescue service 12% £000s 141,370 % the new Waitrose store in and the new Vestas Research Adult social care 39% 38,125 64,844 10% and Development facility at Stag Lane, Newport, while assistance Highways, roads and transport 18% 151,753 has also been given to help GKN expand at Whippingham. 6,960 41% 2% 63,080 Core and democratic services 17% 57,175 16% Non-distributed costs 8,328 2% 25,091 60,434 Total 7% 17% 4 New dinosaur species for 21,668 22,649 6% 6% 853 0.3% 21,377 5.8% 2010/2011 capital spending – Total £31,263,000 361,818 2,701 0.7% 368,447 Delivering better services Highways (£6,863,000) Statement by director of resourc Isle of Wight The information contained in this summary Fire service (£1,707,000) The council made significant progress in its aim to reduce the is taken from the draft statement of accounts es cost of providing services to residents – in the last financial year Other environmental as at 30 June 2011, which is being audited by identifying an on-going reduction of £2.52 million of back-offic (£2,166,000) the Audit Commission – the government’s savings. public spending watchdog. A final opinion was Culture and leisure This process included reducing the number of buildings frome due to be given by 30 September 2011, and which it operates and developing internal shared services that will (£971,000) a final version (amended as per the auditors’ 14 One Island 4 All set for walking weekend save £125,000 a year. A process to reduce the number of senior recommendations) will be approved by the Children and education managers was also agreed. council’s audit committee and then published (£12,761,000) on iwight.com . I therefore certify that this Community services summary statement of accounts presents a true (£3,533,000) and fair view of the financial position of the authority at the accounting date and its income Resources (£3,262,000) and expenditure for the year ended 31 March 5 Remember to register to vote 2011. One Island 15 6 New era for Winter Gardens 6 Digital switchover advice 7 Remembering our fallen 9 Reviving muddy Seaclose

FEATURES 10 School Report New schools for the 21st century 13 Isle of Wight Council in 2010/2011 Three-page annual report 16 New waste collection service Looking ahead to January 2012 18 Caring for older people Key questions about consultation page 4 SUPPLEMENTS 20 Police Authority Policing priorities for the Island page 6 22 The Island’s NHS page 16 Health service news

23 TIME & PLACE Events and activities

Cover picture: St Francis Primary pupil Rio marks the start of building work on his page 9 new school at Ventnor (see page 10)

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One Island 3 FIRST WORD Don’t forget your seasonal New Island flu jab Image Nobu © Tamura dinosaur – out of Africa

A new species of dinosaur has been Its long neck was ideal to help it graze on discovered by an Island fossil expert. the lush, nutritious flood plains it inhabited The find by palaeontologist Steve around 125 million years ago. Island residents in at-risk groups are Hutt has been confirmed as a section The creature would have roamed the being reminded not to forget their of backbone from a giant plant-eating land where North Africa is now – although seasonal flu vaccinations for this dinosaur from the Rebbachisaurid family the process of continental drift has moved winter. (pictured) – also related to the better known this land to where the Island is situated Jenifer Smith, director of public health Diplodocus of North America. today. on the Island, said: “It is vital that if you The fossil, which can be viewed at Steve, who is now retired as a curator are in one of the at-risk groups or are Dinosaur Isle at Sandown, was found in at Dinosaur Isle but still offers voluntary in a position of infecting one of these ancient rocks along the Island’s southwest expertise, said: “This find reveals the people, you receive the vaccination, coast earlier this year. importance of the Isle of Wight in the as this is your best protection against The new species of dinosaur, yet to be evolutionary history of the dinosaurs and seasonal flu. formally named, had an unusually tall has also helped us to better document the “Seasonal flu is a serious illness and it is ridged back. process of continental drift.” important not to underestimate this.” A vaccination is vital every year as the flu virus may change on a regular basis. Basic hand hygiene routines are also a key factor in fighting the spread of viruses. If you are unsure if you are a high risk patient, talk to your pharmacist, nurse or doctor, or visit www.nhs.uk/flu for more All set for information. Seasonal flu factfile walking weekend • It is a common and often underestimated illness that occurs More than 60 themed and guided volunteers, and most will be free of charge. every year, usually during the walks are in the schedule for the To view all the walks online you can visit October to April period. fourth staging of the Isle of Wight www.isleofwightwalkingfestival.co.uk • The virus is spread in small droplets Autumn Walking Weekend, this year The list includes the 26-mile ‘Beaches, of saliva, coughed or sneezed into taking place from 21 to 24 October. bars and blisters walk’, the spooky the air. The popular walking weekend is an ‘ Old Village ghost walk’, and a • It can also be spread if someone offshoot of the Island’s award-winning coast and country walk with a pub lunch with the virus touches common annual walking festival held each May, and titled ‘Sails, whales, tales and ales around surfaces, such as door handles, this year will once again feature some new Chale’. with unwashed hands. themed routes for walkers of all ages and If you are looking for somewhere to • You are more likely to suffer serious abilities. stay on the Island during the weekend, consequences if you are either over All the walks during the council- accommodation details are available at 65, pregnant, or have a chronic organised event will be led by experienced www.islandbreaks.co.uk illness such as respiratory disease, diabetes, heart disease or other Isle of Wight Walking Festival 2012 long-term conditions. Remember to put the dates in your diary for the 2012 • Vaccination is free of charge to annual walking festival, from 5 to 20 May. those in at-risk groups.

4 One Island Community news from around the Island Remember to register to vote Island households are being reminded of the importance of returning forms recently sent out as part of the the form is annual canvass to update the not returned, register of electors. people could be A new look at The forms were sent to all removed from the register and 69,800 residential properties unable to vote. autism support on the Island and will allow Subject to approval by people to update the names of Parliament, 2012 could see People with autism on the Island, together with their those registered as electors at Island residents going to the families, carers and healthcare professionals are being their address. polls to elect a police and crime encouraged to help reshape the Isle of Wight Autism Any changes will be reflected commissioner for Hampshire Strategy. in the new register to be and the Isle of Wight. The council, which is developing the strategy, would like published on 1 December 2011. The canvass form also allows to hear of the experiences of those with, and involved with Even if there have been no you to request an application autism, to help improve the level of support on the Island. changes to the people living form to vote by post. A consultation will be launched in early November, with in a household, it is vital the If your household has not a survey for individuals with autism, as well as their parents, form is returned. It is a legal received a canvass form, please carers, relatives and professionals. requirement to supply the telephone the Electoral Services Following completion of the survey, titled ‘Autism information requested, and if office at the council on 821000. participation – have your say’, an initial draft version of the ADVERTISEMENT strategy will be put together. There will then be the chance for individuals to comment on the draft strategy and submit further ideas. • If you would like more information about the strategy and Where a University Degree consultation, please contact Ann O’Brien, commissioning lead at the council, tel: 823340, email: [email protected] in Business is not beyond your reach Open day marks Our part-time Business anniversary & Management Degree is designed for busy working people and is available once a week from Isle of Wight College and the University of Portsmouth.

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A special open day was tours of the crematorium, www.port.ac.uk/pbs but whose work experience recently held by the Isle stonemasonry demonstrations, will have prepared them to succeed. of Wight Crematorium at a chance to talk to cemetery Whippingham to mark its friends’ groups and 50th anniversary. bereavement groups, nature The open day, staged in trails, floristry demonstrations For further information visit conjunction with the Earl and a mini auction. W port.ac.uk/busandman Mountbatten Hospice, featured There was also brass band a range of activities and and hand bell music. E [email protected] demonstrations, and raised The open day concluded with T 023 9284 8200 £1,298 for the hospice. a memorial service led by the The day included: guided Reverend Graham Morris. One Island 5 FIRST WORD

New era beckons for Ventnor Winter Gardens

The currently-closed Ventnor Winter quality hotel accommodation on the site Environmental Gardens is set to be transformed and and possibly spa and exhibition facilities re-opened as a leading new dining and – bringing the total investment to more focus for major entertainment venue. than £3 million. The council has agreed to sell the A special panel of council officers and highways’ scheme distinctive building for a nominal fee to councillors (including Ventnor town local company, the Robert Thompson’s councillors) selected the RTHG bid as Early 2012 will see the Isle of Wight Hambrough Group (RTHG). the best of three submitted. Because Council select the successful The group, which already runs the investment of around £650,000 is contractor for the £260 million award-wining Hambrough Hotel in needed to address the backlog of repairs, private finance initiative (PFI) to Ventnor and the Pond Café in , all bidders offered £1 for the building. upgrade the Island’s highways. plans to invest more than £1 million Under the terms of the deal, Integral to the scheme will be to upgrade the building, creating two RTHG, which pledged to invest most associated environmental and economic restaurants, as well as developing the significantly in the building, is required benefits for the Island. building’s auditorium. to retain the auditorium for community The PFI project – using government Longer term, there are plans to create use for at least a decade. grant to bring the network up to standard – has contract conditions built It may seem a The Buy With in regulating both the scheme’s carbon long way off, but Confidence site footprint and water usage. from 7 March Key advice can give advice on Failure to meet these targets will see 2012, the Isle of reputable retailers the PFI contractor required to make Wight’s terrestrial for people looking financial penalty payments to the television signal for digital to buy a digital box. council. will be turned off. It is known that As well as benefiting the environment, This means to switchover some companies the arrangement will also encourage continue receiving have been trying the contractor to use local labour and free-to-air channels to take advantage materials, providing significant economic such as BBC and ITV, households will of unsuspecting households, particularly opportunity for Island business. need a digital set top box or television the vulnerable, charging excessive prices An additional environmental benefit with built-in Freeview. for set top boxes and unnecessary extra of the scheme comes through the For key information, Island residents equipment. complete overhaul of the Island’s are being advised to visit the ‘Digital • The BBC is also providing assistance, via streetlight network, reducing energy Switchover’ website (www.digitaluk.co.uk, the government-backed ‘Help Scheme’, consumption by 40 per cent. or tel: 08456 505050), as well as the Isle aimed at the elderly and disabled. The The council is currently negotiating of Wight Council’s Buy With Confidence scheme charges £40 for help, which with three international companies/ website (www.iwbuywithconfidence.info). includes providing an approved installer, consortiums bidding to become its PFI Bill Murphy, the council’s head of easy-to-use Freeview equipment partner. planning and regulatory services, said: to convert one television set, and a Early in the new year, the council will “The switchover may still seem a long 12 month aftercare service including a select one bidder and negotiations will time away, but in fact it will be with us in free helpline. continue to ensure the best possible less than six months. The service is free for people who are contract is agreed before actual work “A typical digital box can be found for eligible and who also receive pension starts in 2013. less than £20 and many televisions also credit income support, income-based For more details on the have Freeview built-in these days, and jobseeker’s allowance or income-related highways’ PFI, you can visit these can be bought for less than £150.” employment and support allowance. www.iwight.com/highways-pfi

6 One Island Community news from around the Island Sign up to save on Remembering your oil-fired heating our fallen Island residents are being encouraged to join a scheme A special field of which helps them buy remembrance will cheaper oil to centrally-heat once again be opened their homes. this year to commemorate those in the uniformed services The membership scheme from the Island who lost their lives in service of their is run by Island Community country. Ventures, the trading arm The field was introduced in the Princess Beatrice Garden of the Isle of Wight Rural at Carisbrooke Castle last year – along similar lines to the Community Council, and remembrance area at Westminster Abbey in London. aims to cut prices by helping The Island field was established by Lord Lieutenant Major- Island residents, community a bulk price for all members. General Martin White as a place where residents can pay their organisations and businesses Orders and deliveries can respects for a period around the time of Remembrance Sunday. through a combined bulk take place on a monthly basis, The castle will open its doors for people to visit the field buying scheme. and deliveries can be made between 10am and 12 noon on Thursday 10 November and Under the scheme, members more cost-effective by tankers Friday 11 November. Residents can also visit on Saturday place their order with a visiting a number of different 12 November and Sunday 13 November, 10am to 4pm. co-ordinator in their village customers in an area at one Bus company is providing a free bus from or area, who then feeds time. Newport bus station to the castle at 10.30am each day. the information to Island To find out more about A formal service of remembrance will take place at the castle Community Ventures. These the scheme and obtain a on Thursday 10 November at 10.45am, which members of the orders are then passed on to a membership form, call 524058 public are welcome to attend. national body, which negotiates or visit www.iwcv.co.uk

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Pictured: Seaclose Park as it currently looks Inset: The condition of the park after the festival

The green, green grass returns to Seaclose

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One Island 9 SCHOOL REPORT Pictured: St Francis Primary School pupil Rio breaks the ground for building work on the new school site at Ventnor

New schools for the 21st century

his term has seen the start of a new era for schools on the sites including All Saints at Freshwater, Arreton, The Bay at Isle of Wight. Sandown (two sites), and Barton at Newport. T Thousands of pupils across the Island are now attending • Mobile classrooms have been installed at various primary primary or secondary schools as part of the new two-tier school locations – including Arreton, Carisbrooke Church of system. England and Northwood – and are now in use. An extraordinary amount of detailed planning, organisational • A programme to redistribute many thousands of items of and construction work has gone into preparing Island school surplus furniture, equipment and teaching and learning sites for the new structure. resources from the closing middle school sites to primary and The initial phases to prepare schools for the launch of the secondary schools, has been completed on time. two-tier system have been successfully completed. Other phases, particularly involving refurbishment of some sites, or There is also a range of projects which are either ongoing or construction work to create entirely new-build schools, are just underway: either ongoing or just underway. A whole range of projects have taken place to make ready • The £30 million Cowes One School Pathfinder scheme on the the school sites: existing Cowes Secondary site is well ahead of programme. The roof has started to go on and cladding is underway on a • At Nettlestone Primary School an entire two-classroom new school that will provide a modern learning environment extension has been completed in 19 weeks and opened for with extensive facilities, as well as an asset for the whole the new term. community. The new-look school is due to open for the 2012 • Key alterations have been completed at primary school academic year. 10 One Island • Contracts have been signed and work has begun on two new- build £6 million primaries for Primary School (on the upper field of the old Swanmore Middle site) and St Francis Working with partners Primary (on the former Ventnor Middle site). Haylands is due Throughout the project, the council has worked closely with to be operational in September 2012 and St Francis in January its framework partner, Willmott Dixon Construction, and with 2013. • Refurbishment work is continuing at former middle school partner Pihl on the Cowes One School Pathfinder scheme. sites which have closed to become primary schools, including Funding has been provided centrally by the Department Solent Middle (Gurnard Primary), Somerton Middle (Love Lane for Education and the council has ensured that many Island- Primary), Osborne Middle (Queensgate Primary), Mayfield based contractors have also been involved in the work. Middle (Greenmount Primary), Kitbridge Middle (Hunnyhill Project director for the council, Janet Newton, said: “The Primary), and Lake Middle (Broadlea Primary) – all due to be construction work for the new two-tier education system is completed by Easter 2012. probably the most intensive and forward-looking project ever • Work is due for completion this term to convert the undertaken in the education sector on the Island. gymnasium at the former Nodehill Middle in Newport into “Much credit should go to the Island contractors who have two new science laboratories for the new joint sixth form been working on these projects. A lot of the undertakings serving Carisbrooke and Medina secondary schools. In the have been complex and time-constrained, and we are interim the science labs at the former Downside Middle are indebted for the way they have been carrying out the work to being used. Other works at Nodehill include disability access improvements and a new lift. a high standard and to deadline.”

The former Downside Middle site is also being used for a range of other interim purposes to maintain an education presence More information until pupil numbers in the area increase for the creation of a primary school on the site. These include housing the schools’ For more information about schools’ reorganisation you can music service and hosting a post-16 sports-related course for visit the ‘Learning’ section on iwight.com the Isle of Wight College and AFC Bournemouth. For planning details about school building projects see At the former Ventnor Middle site, while construction work ‘planning online’ on iwight.com is taking place for the new St Francis Primary, the existing Rew Valley Sports centre will be run by the council’s leisure services ADVERTISEMENT as an expanded community facility. The centre will be fenced off from the construction site and will be available for school and community sports use, to include the sports hall, all-weather pitches and playing fields. There has already been interest from local sporting groups, and local cluster schools will act as the anchor tenants.

Building for the Future

Working in partnership with the Isle of Wight Council, phase two of the reorganisation programme has been successfully completed in time for the new academic year.

For more information on Willmott Dixon visit www.willmottdixon.co.uk Pictured: Building work at Nettlestone Primary during the summer

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ANNUAL REPORT 2010/2011 ANNUAL REPORT AND SUMMARY STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS 2010/2011

Each year the council is required Our key priorities in 2010/2011 to publish its accounts to show the public how much money has been To help focus its resources on the areas most important to residents, the council set a list of key priorities. These were: spent and in what areas. This three-page feature provides a summary of the council’s School reorganisation accounts for 2010/2011, the A great deal of work was successfully undertaken during the year to put in priorities during the year and the place the arrangements for the move to a two-tier education system from September 2011. All work was carried out to schedule and within budget, and challenges for the future… 90 per cent was undertaken by local companies. Alongside this, the Island has seen improved results in both GCSEs and he financial year of 2010/2011 was an A-levels this year. At GCSE there was a rise of 5.1 percentage points in students extremely difficult one for many local achieving five or more A* to C grades, while at A-level the overall pass rate Tauthorities up and down the country – improved by just under one percentage point. There were disappointing including the Isle of Wight Council. overall Key Stage 2 results for middle school pupils – but it is hoped the new Against a national and international backdrop two-tier structure will help address this situation. of tough economic conditions, the government reduced its funding for councils – which in turn increased pressure on local services. As a result of reduced funding, the Isle of Wight Council is having to find around £33 million in savings over four years, with the bulk – some £18 million – required in 2011/2012. To achieve the savings, the council has had to prioritise its finances in those areas for which it has a statutory duty – such as education – and those supporting the most vulnerable residents. This has meant funding has ceased or reduced in some other areas. The council has also investigated working with communities and organisations to see if some services can be provided in a different way and at less cost. Examples of this have been the work to assist community groups to take on the running of some Highways’ PFI libraries, while bus company Southern Vectis has stepped in to take on some of the functions offered scheme previously by tourist information centres. In 2010/2011 a government grant of The summary accounts overleaf show £260 million was confirmed, which that, despite the reduced grant from the will allow a major overhaul of the government, the actual council budget grew from Island’s highways’ network. As well as £361.818 million in 2009/2010 to £368.447 million in bringing the Island’s roads, footways 2010/2011. and cycleways up to a high standard, The main reason for this was because in the private finance initiative (PFI) will 2010/2011 it cost more to provide services in the enable the council to deliver more area for children and education (£151.753 million cost-effective and efficient services in compared to £141.370 million the previous year). areas including street cleansing, verge Adult social care costs were £60.434 million maintenance, CCTV and street lighting. compared to £57.175 million the previous year. The contract will be the first of its type These two statutory services accounted for 58 per to agree carbon and water footprints cent of the council’s budget in 2010/2011, compared within which the PFI partner must to 55 per cent the previous year (a combined rise of operate. This encourages the contractor three per cent or more than £13 million). to use local labour and suppliers. One Island 13 ANNUAL REPORT 2010/2011

Transforming social care Fire service modernisation The council embarked on a project to make the fire and rescue service more resilient through employing more whole-time personnel to reduce the reliance on retained (part-time) crews. This project included the upgrading of Ryde Fire Station and the purchase of several new state of the art pumping appliances and other apparatus. The service also The national target for assisting vulnerable individuals to move to won the British personal budgets was achieved and the council remains on target Quality Foundation’s to deliver personal budgets for all those eligible, by April 2013. A prestigious Southern new partnership involving Age Concern IW was also selected as a England Excellence ‘user led organisation’ to support vulnerable adults on the Island. Award. The council also established a community wellbeing and social care directorate to embrace the ‘Think Local, Act Personal’ agenda, which seeks to promote an individual’s choice about how money Local housing is spent on their care. During the year work began on the Pan Meadows project (pictured below), a scheme that will create hundreds of local affordable homes as part of a sustainable community development. The Regeneration and the economy council was also involved in bringing back into use 321 properties that were previously empty. In difficult national economic conditions, the council remained committed to work to assist the local economy through schemes including Pan Meadows at Newport and the highways’ PFI. The council gained a seat on the board of the new Solent Local Enterprise Partnership which means the Island is strongly represented on the successor body to the Development Agency. Also developed were proposals and a bid for government funding to set up a Solent Ocean Energy Centre that will create a facility to develop and test tidal energy equipment. New developments in which the council played a part included the new Waitrose store in East Cowes and the new Vestas Research and Development facility at Stag Lane, Newport, while assistance has also been given to help GKN expand at Whippingham.

Delivering better services The council made significant progress in its aim to reduce the cost of providing services to residents – in the last financial year identifying an on-going reduction of £2.52 million of back-office savings. This process included reducing the number of buildings from which it operates and developing internal shared services that will save £125,000 a year. A process to reduce the number of senior managers was also agreed. 14 One Island SUMMARY STATEMENT OF ACCOUNTS 2010/2011

Summary financial impact of the emergency budget: amounting to £2.669 million have also position for 2010/2011 been taken into account while closing the • An authorisation panel was set up to 2010/2011 accounts. This relates to all costs In July 2010, the government announced an control recruitment, resulting in vacancy incurred during 2010/2011, adjustments emergency budget and a comprehensive management savings of £3.384 million. for staff who had received a termination spending review. As a result, the council letter from the council on or before 31 had to respond to reduced government • A review of the performance and March 2011, and a provision for those funding mid-year, as well as anticipated communications areas achieved staff identified as ‘at risk’ and for whom a budget pressures of £4.061 million budget savings of £0.293 million and a reasonable estimate of likely costs could in adult social care, £0.559 million in procurement moratorium and contract be made during the closure of accounts children’s placements, and £0.592 million review delivered savings of £1.353 million. process. in school transport, and the impact of the economic downturn (in terms of reduced • Reductions in interest paid from lower In overall terms, the savings offset the income from fees and charges, including levels of capital spending, and the additional costs incurred, leaving a net £1.030 million in parking income). repayment of external debt contributed underspend of £787,000 in the budget To offset these, a number of measures to a saving at the year end of £3.7 million. at the year end. This amount therefore were taken to control spending, address improves the council’s general fund pressure areas and mitigate the immediate Redundancy and other termination costs balance at the year end.

Where the money comes from 2009/2010 2010/2011 Revenue funding sources £000s % £000s % Dedicated schools grant 74,162 20.5% 76,371 20.7% Formula grants 59,129 16.3% 61,397 16.7% Other government grants 109,690 30.3% 116,781 31.7% Council tax 69,012 19.1% 70,944 19.2% Charges, rents, other income and adjustments 49,825 13.8% 42,954 11.7% Total 361,818 368,447

How we spent it 2009/2010 2010/2011 Gross revenue expenditure £000s % £000s % Culture, environment, regulatory and planning 43,857 12.1% 38,125 10.4% Children and education 141,370 39.1% 151,753 41.2% Housing services (including benefits) 64,844 17.9% 63,080 17.1% Fire and rescue service 6,960 1.9% 8,328 2.3% Adult social care 57,175 15.8% 60,434 16.4% Highways, roads and transport 25,091 6.9% 22,649 6.1% Core and democratic services 21,668 6.0% 21,377 5.8% Non-distributed costs 853 0.3% 2,701 0.7% Total 361,818 368,447

2010/2011 capital spending – Total £31,263,000 Statement by director of resources Highways (£6,863,000) The information contained in this summary is taken from the draft statement of accounts Fire service (£1,707,000) as at 30 June 2011, which is being audited by Other environmental the Audit Commission – the government’s (£2,166,000) public spending watchdog. A final opinion was due to be given by 30 September 2011, and Culture and leisure a final version (amended as per the auditors’ (£971,000) recommendations) will be approved by the council’s audit committee and then published Children and education on iwight.com. I therefore certify that this (£12,761,000) summary statement of accounts presents a true Community services and fair view of the financial position of the (£3,533,000) authority at the accounting date and its income and expenditure for the year ended 31 March Resources (£3,262,000) 2011.

One Island 15 SPECIAL FEATURE Important changes to your waste collection service

Changes to your waste collection

From 30 January 2012, the For waste which cannot be recycled, If you did not receive this leaflet, and household waste collection residents will still need to provide their you consider your property unsuitable service will change to own sacks and bins. for a wheelie bin, and you have not yet improve recycling. This will be collected fortnightly from contacted the council, you should do so immediately. During January, residents will be sent the kerbside and processed into fuel. detailed information about the new Have you told us if you think a You can find the information online at service. They will also receive: wheelie bin is unsuitable www.iwight.com/waste and follow the link to the wheelie bin suitability form. • a 240 litre wheelie bin for recyclable for your property? (non-food) waste – to be collected Wheelie bins may not be suitable for You can also text your house number, fortnightly from the kerbside; some properties and their recyclable post code and “bags” to 07950 080788 (text charged at your standard network • two caddies for food waste (a small waste will be collected in bags. rate), or call 823777 during office hours. caddy for keeping in the kitchen, and During early September leaflets were a larger caddy with a secure lid for delivered to Island households about We are currently assessing properties keeping outside) – the large caddy the new service explaining how to that we have been notified about, and to be collected weekly from the notify the council if you think wheelie households will hear from us by the kerbside. bins are not suitable for your property. end of November.

These changes to your waste collection service are essential if we are to radically improve recycling levels and offer greater protection to the Island’s environment. The new service is designed to significantly cut the amount of household waste going to landfill and as a result the cost to council taxpayers. Last year an estimated 42,000 tonnes was buried as landfill, with the council paying £1.8 million in landfill tax.

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Collected – week one Collected – week two Kept in Wheelie bin for recycling Non recyclable waste your • 240 litre wheelie bin. • Residents to supply own sacks and bins. kitchen • 1060mm high, 575mm wide, 730mm deep. Food waste caddy (large) Food waste Food waste caddy (large) caddy (small) • With a secure lid for keeping outside. • 234mm high, 184mm • 405mm high, 320mm wide, 400mm deep. wide, 149mm deep.

Bin sizes are indicative and colour is not yet confirmed. The changes at a glance The long-term future for waste

The current household waste contract comes to an end Existing service New service in 2015, providing us with an opportunity to explore new Food waste Collected weekly Collected weekly ways of managing the Island’s waste and diverting as much (Small caddy) (Large caddy) as possible away from landfill. We are in the process of All cooked and All cooked and developing a new waste strategy for how our waste should uncooked food. uncooked food. be dealt with in the future and that may include utilising Recyclable waste Collected Collected new technologies. As well as increasing recycling, we will fortnightly fortnightly be looking at ways to treat waste as a resource from which (One 55 litre black (One 240 litre we can generate heat and power for the Island. Residents box) wheelie bin) will have an opportunity to review and comment on Paper – some Paper – all types. the strategy when it is put out for public consultation in types. Glass bottles & jars. Glass bottles & jars. Tetra paks. February next year. Textiles. Plastics – all types. More details about the future waste strategy can be found Cans. at www.iwight.com/waste Card – all types. Non recyclable Collected Collected waste weekly fortnightly Waste contract timeline (Bag or bin (Bag or bin provided by provided by 2011 2015 resident) resident) Garden waste Collected Collected Current municipal waste contract weekly fortnightly and new collection service New waste (Charged for (Charged for management collection) collection) New waste Contract tendering contract Unlimited number Separate strategy and letting period of pre-paid garden 240 litre wheelie waste sacks. bin or bags.

Look out for the December edition of One Island to find out more about what happens to your waste after it has been collected – or visit www.iwight.com/waste

One Island 17 FEATURE Have your say

A major consultation is currently seeking views about care for older people on the Island. Here we explain how you can have your say and answer some key questions…

Why is the greater choice and better available for those most in and intermediate care facilities value for money for both the need. at The Adelaide at Ryde and council carrying council and those receiving To help the council The Gouldings at Freshwater. out the support. consider what to do The options are being next, it has produced a consultation? considered against a market report looking The Island’s background of the council at care for older people, changing he Isle of Wight Council reviewing all its services to which can be viewed at is committed to see if they can be provided www.iwight.com/haveyoursay population Tsupporting the Island's differently and more The report identifies some By 2030 it is estimated there most vulnerable residents, efficiently. The council’s of the different approaches will be a major increase in the including older people, and budget continues to be under to care support, the number numbers of older people on has identified a number of pressure due to major cuts in of people who may need the Island. different approaches to their government funding, but the care in the future, and what • The number of over 65s is care which are used elsewhere authority remains determined is currently available on the projected to rise from 35,100 in the UK and abroad. to ensure services remain Island – including the respite These alternatives today to 53,400 by 2030 include extra care housing, (52 per cent increase). homeshare, and initiatives • The number of people with Pictured: The Adelaide such as telemedicine1 and the dementia may rise from an Shared Lives scheme2. estimated 2,580 today to Such options are not 4,743 by 2030 (83 per cent intended to replace how the increase). council currently supports • The number of people over people, but may offer 75 may increase from 16,800 today to 29,400 by 2030 (75 per cent increase). 1 Telemedicine describes equipment and devices • The number of people over to help people who have 85 may go up from 5,500 problems with speaking, today to 10,900 by 2030 hearing, eyesight, moving (98 per cent increase). about, memory, cognition (thought processes and understanding) or The Adelaide medication. and The 2 The Shared Live scheme is where an individual lives in Gouldings a Shared Lives carers’ home and may require additional The Adelaide and The support to maintain their Gouldings provide planned independence. or emergency short-term 18 One Island FEATURE on care for older people

respite care, respite day care give their general views on and intermediate care (or current and future care for reablement). older people on the Island Both centres work with (including the use of The people on an individual basis, Adelaide and The Gouldings). either helping them to remain This first, informal stage living independently or to of consultation, which was regain as much ability as they widely publicised in the can to live independently after local media and through an illness or injury. community groups, finished Most people who use either on 26 August. the emergency respite care or the intermediate care (or What happens reablement) return home after consultation, a final report All the documents from the their stay. next? will then be presented to first stages of the consultation, The centres also provide the cabinet for a decision on including the market other community activities, A new report is currently 14 February next year. report, can be found on the offer visiting services (such as being drafted, based on the consultations’ webpage. hair dressers and chiropodists) feedback gathered so far, How do I find and have an active league of which will be considered by the council’s cabinet on How do I make friends who support them. out more about 11 October. In 2010/2011 the centres my views As well as the results of the proposals? provided short residential this initial feedback, the known? stays to 528 people and report will contain some The proposals will be respite day care for 187 From 17 October you will specific proposals for the published on 17 October on people. be able to comment on the future of these services and the council’s consultations’ If you would like to find out proposals by: a recommendation that the webpage at www.iwight.com/ more about the two centres, cabinet should consult with haveyoursay. • email: [email protected]; please view the market report. Island residents on these You will also be able to • writing to: Care for Older proposals before making a pick up a paper copy of the People on the Isle of Wight What has final decision. consultation documents (Adelaide and Gouldings), The report will recommend from County Hall reception Adult Services HQ, 17 Fairlee happened so a further 90 day period of at Newport, libraries, The Road, Newport, PO30 2EA. far? consultation about these Adelaide and The Gouldings, More details will be available specific proposals, to take and GPs’ surgeries. at www.iwight.com/ The council published the place between 17 October Details of how you can get haveyoursay market report in July and and 14 January. involved in the consultation invited service users, families, Following analysis of all will be advertised in the media Please tell us your views by carers and the public to of the responses to the and via community groups. 14 January 2012. One Island 19 HPA IOW_2pp:Layout 1 1/9/11 09:17 Page 1 HPA IOW_2pp:Layout 1 1/9/11 09:18 Page 2

What are our policing priorities?

Hampshire Police Authority has a What you wanted Policing on the Island statutory duty to engage with the We asked about your priorities and communities of Hampshire and the took action to tackle: Hampshire Police Authority is an independent organisation that ensures Isle of Wight to find out their • Anti-social behaviour communities receive an effective, efficient and high quality policing service. community issues, concerns and • Criminal damage Hampshire Constabulary provides day to day policing under the leadership policing priorities. • Alcohol and drug related crime of Chief Constable Alex Marshall. The Police Authority ensures that the This ensures community views and Constabulary delivers the goal of making the two counties even safer places opinions are reflected in future plans Cuts in crime/increase in to live, work and visit. including the Policing Plan – a three residents’ satisfaction year rolling document that sets the From 1 April 2010 to 31 March Throughout the past year we have all been going through a period of unprecedented policing priorities for Hampshire 2011 across Hampshire including economic change. We have been working closely with the Constabulary for some time to Southampton, Portsmouth and the Value for money – high quality, see how Hampshire Constabulary can improve their performance while reducing costs. Constabulary. Isle of Wight: low cost efficient policing The drop in overall crimes last year of more than six per cent meant there were 8,570 fewer Hampshire Police Authority is still • All crime down 6% (8567 fewer By 2015 Hampshire Constabulary crimes which is a tremendous achievement especially in a year when the Constabulary also committed to the six strategic made an £11 million saving in preparation for the government cuts. Local residents and crimes) intends to be a low cost, high policing priorities of: visitors can be confident that crime rates are falling and that Hampshire and the Isle of • Rowdy & nuisance behaviour achieving force and one of the best Wight are even safer places to live, work and visit. • Providing an excellent service down 15% (10464 fewer value for money forces in the Councillor Jacqui Rayment Chair, Hampshire Police Authority • An active presence in every incidents) country. Hampshire Police Authority neighbourhood • Criminal damage down 14% has been working for a number of The Police Authority says: • Catching criminals and managing Local results Figures in bold are How to contact us (4081 fewer crimes) years with the Constabulary to help “It was a tough year for policing on offenders for 2010/11 and in brackets are for Hampshire Police Authority • Vehicle crime down 3% (397 them work towards this goal. 2009/10 the Island, economic related crime • Protecting our communities from has increased but crime levels are Westgate Chambers fewer crimes) IOW Operational Command Unit crime and harm The Constabulary not only made an still lower than 3 years ago. Staple Gardens • Dwelling burglaries down 6% (OCU) Winchester • Making the most of our resources £11 million saving during the year Nonetheless the Police Authority (341 fewer crimes) Number of crimes expects the policing team on the SO23 8AW • Equipping our team to deliver as it prepared for government • Violent crime (violence against the 9610 (8997) Island to reduce crime levels whilst Tel: 01962 871595 spending cuts, but also achieved person with injury) down 4% An increase of 7% or 613 crimes continuing to raise public E-mail: police.authority@hampshire. Working with local people significant improvements in satisfaction in the service.” (643 fewer crimes) Number of dwelling burglaries pnn.police.uk Twenty-eight community events were performance. • Knife crime down 19% (106 318 (247) To see our publications, including held in 2010/11 and over 14,000 An increase of 29% or 71 burglaries Superintendent the latest Annual Report and fewer crimes) The Police Authority and the Policing Plan, visit: local people were surveyed to find Number of incidents of rowdy and Constabulary were fully prepared for Norman Mellors says: Website: out what people wanted the police to However, the detection rate for nuisance behaviour “After three consecutive years of www.hampshirepoliceauthority.org the cuts and we have been working 3983 (4484) tackle. Your views helped us to focus serious and acquisitive crime crime reduction I am disappointed You can also find out about us and together for a number of years taking A reduction of 11% or 501 incidents on your priorities for the next policing (robbery, household burglaries and to report that last year crime on the our public meetings, which you are steps to meet the challenge. Isle of Wight increased on average plan and also helped us to improve vehicle thefts) was 2% short of the Number of vehicle crimes welcome to attend. The Police Authority and the 516 (440) by around two offences per day to the policing service that you receive. 15% target but the Authority is Constabulary have planned under- An increase of 17% or 76 vehicle 9,621 reports. This is still much Hampshire Constabulary scrutinising the Constabulary’s crimes lower than the 11,691 crimes spends totalling £16 million in the In an emergency always dial 999 meeting of the target in 2011/12. reported in the base year of 2007. last two financial years to build Number of violent crimes For non emergencies call I am pleased to report that staff, Percentages rounded to nearest whole number. 1240 (965) reserves to smooth the funding loss officers and partners have worked 0845 045 45 45 or 101 An increase of 29% or 275 violent and provide for the cost of change. well together to reduce anti-social www.hampshire.police.uk crimes behaviour by 11% or 498 reports. Crimestoppers 0800 555 111 Residents satisfaction with service The Island remains one of the www.crimestoppers-uk.org 70% (68%) safest areas in the South and we Percentages rounded to nearest whole number. are fully committed to working with Victim Support Line the public and our partners to 0845 30 30 900 make it even safer.” www.victimsupport.org.uk 20 One Island Ensuring policing excellence for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight Ensuring policing excellence for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight HPA IOW_2pp:Layout 1 1/9/11 09:18 Page 2

PARTNER S UPPLEMENT What are our policing priorities?

Hampshire Police Authority has a What you wanted statutory duty to engage with the We asked about your priorities and communities of Hampshire and the took action to tackle: Isle of Wight to find out their • Anti-social behaviour community issues, concerns and • Criminal damage policing priorities. • Alcohol and drug related crime This ensures community views and opinions are reflected in future plans Cuts in crime/increase in including the Policing Plan – a three residents’ satisfaction year rolling document that sets the From 1 April 2010 to 31 March policing priorities for Hampshire 2011 across Hampshire including Constabulary. Southampton, Portsmouth and the Value for money – high quality, Isle of Wight: low cost efficient policing Hampshire Police Authority is still • All crime down 6% (8567 fewer By 2015 Hampshire Constabulary committed to the six strategic crimes) intends to be a low cost, high policing priorities of: • Rowdy & nuisance behaviour achieving force and one of the best • Providing an excellent service down 15% (10464 fewer value for money forces in the • An active presence in every incidents) country. Hampshire Police Authority neighbourhood • Criminal damage down 14% has been working for a number of • Catching criminals and managing (4081 fewer crimes) years with the Constabulary to help offenders • Vehicle crime down 3% (397 them work towards this goal. • Protecting our communities from fewer crimes) crime and harm The Constabulary not only made an • Dwelling burglaries down 6% • Making the most of our resources £11 million saving during the year (341 fewer crimes) • Equipping our team to deliver as it prepared for government • Violent crime (violence against the spending cuts, but also achieved person with injury) down 4% Working with local people significant improvements in (643 fewer crimes) Twenty-eight community events were performance. • Knife crime down 19% (106 held in 2010/11 and over 14,000 fewer crimes) The Police Authority and the local people were surveyed to find Constabulary were fully prepared for out what people wanted the police to However, the detection rate for the cuts and we have been working tackle. Your views helped us to focus serious and acquisitive crime together for a number of years taking on your priorities for the next policing (robbery, household burglaries and steps to meet the challenge. plan and also helped us to improve vehicle thefts) was 2% short of the The Police Authority and the the policing service that you receive. 15% target but the Authority is Constabulary have planned under- scrutinising the Constabulary’s spends totalling £16 million in the meeting of the target in 2011/12. last two financial years to build Percentages rounded to nearest whole number. reserves to smooth the funding loss and provide for the cost of change.

One Island 21 Ensuring policing excellence for Hampshire and the Isle of Wight PARTNER SUPPLEMENT

Choose well this winter With winter approaching you can help us to ensure that we can All change treat all those patients that need our services. If you have a problem which is minor or can wait, please consider visiting your GP or local pharmacy for support or advice. Looking up information online can help as well – we for the NHS recommend the NHS Choices website at www.nhs.uk Planning is Mr Robin Beal, emergency department consultant at advanced for St Mary’s Hospital, said: “With high demand on health services significant over the winter months it is vital that we all choose the right changes to the health service at the right time. Everyone should consider organisation of whether they really need emergency assistance. A visit to a healthcare on the community pharmacy or GP during normal opening hours for Island. non-urgent conditions is maybe more appropriate.” The passage of the Health and Social Care Bill through NHS 111 is Parliament may not coming be of interest to many Islanders but NHS 111 is a new service being for all who work in introduced to the Island this healthcare it will have autumn to make it easier for you a significant impact. to access local NHS healthcare Since 2006 the services and when you need NHS on the Island medical help – but it isn’t a 999 has been managed emergency. You can find out by one organisation, more at www.nhs.uk /111 the Isle of Wight NHS Primary Care Trust. This is all set to change from April 2012 when the majority of services ADVERTISEMENT covering ambulance, community health, mental health, Excellent, Excellent prison healthcare and those at St Mary’s Hospital are to be established as a separate NHS Trust. and Excellent This will bring services into line with the rest of England, but has only been supported following an extensive National results for the Patient Environment Action Team (PEAT) options appraisal to establish that the Island can support assessment published by the National Patient Safety Agency an organisation that is clinically and financially sustainable. (NPSA) on 31 August showed that patients on the Isle of Wight We are currently working closely with stakeholders, receive care in a first class environment, are provided with high voluntary organisations and patient representatives standard food and are treated with dignity and respect. to redesign our services to ensure that they meet Every healthcare facility in England is assessed annually, these two requirements. You can find out more at focusing on non-clinical aspects of patient care and given a www.iow.nhs.uk/nhstrust rating of excellent, good, acceptable, poor or unacceptable. The commissioning of services for Islanders will in Both St Mary’s Hospital and Whitelodge in Newport have the future be the responsibility of the Isle of Wight improved their previous scores and scored excellent across Clinical Commissioning Group (CCG) and the National all areas. Visit www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/peatresults2011 for more Commissioning Board. The CCG comprises all GP practices information. on the Island and is led by six Island GPs. It is part of the cluster of primary care trusts covering Southampton, Hampshire, Isle of Wight and Portsmouth (SHIP) – see Supporting the NHS www.iow.nhs.uk/ccg Many Islanders support the NHS by recognising good service Under the government’s plans, the commissioning through donations and legacies, or by volunteering. You can of public health services will be transferred to the NHS find out more about supporting your local NHS by visiting the Commissioning Board, Public Health England and the Isle charity section of our website at www.iow.nhs.uk/charity, or for of Wight Council. Local services will be provided by the volunteering by visiting www.iow.nhs.uk/volunteer NHS and council (visit www.iow.nhs.uk/publichealth). We also have a page on Just Giving at All of us in the health service remain committed www.justgiving.com/iow-nhs. to improving the quality and efficiency of health If you are interested in volunteering for the NHS then contact services on the Island. our new volunteer co-ordinator on 822099 (ext: 6246) or email: [email protected] Danny Fisher, Chairman NHS Isle of Wight

22 One Island www.iow.nhs.uk TIME & PLACE 30 September to 31 December ACTIVITIES sculpted glass by artist Vectis Branch of Paul Critchley, at the the Submariners’ Huge Hospice Quiz Echium Room, Ventnor Association (10 November) Botanic Garden, 10am (monthly) Major fund raising to 5pm, entry for the Meeting on the fourth quiz for the Earl exhibition is free. Wednesday each Mountbatten Hospice month, Camp Hill at Newport, to be Art Prison Officers’ Club, held at Lower Hyde, Society autumn Newport, 7.30pm. exhibition Shanklin, 6.45pm for Isle of Wight Orchid 7pm start, tel: 528989 (14-16 October) Society to register team of An exhibition of (monthly) four, cost £20 per paintings and Meeting on the third team. demonstrations by Monday each month, Traditional Nativity members of the Riverside Centre, (24 December) society, to be held at An historic look at the shops of the Cowes area, Cowes Heritage Newport, 7.30pm. Played by the young Bembridge Village Hall, annual exhibition, the Regatta Office, Cowes, 22 October to 10am to 4.30pm. 13 November (pictured: a flooded Cowes High Street, 1953) Sandown Bay people of the parish, Diabetes Support Holy Trinity Church, Group Cowes Heritage 10.30am to 4.30pm, Cowes, 5pm. FAIRS & SHOWS MEETINGS (monthly) annual exhibition shuttle bus from Meeting on the third (22 October – Newport bus station, Isle of Wight branch Isle of Wight Bus Thursday each month, EXHIBITIONS 13 November) programme/guide of the British Cactus Museum, Autumn informative talks by Exhibition titled ‘Turn available, £5. and Succulent Rhythm, Form and Running Day medical professionals back time – shops of Society Fire (16 October) Craft Fair and discussions on Cowes, Gurnard and (monthly) (1-2 October) Local and mainland (29 October) Meeting on the matters relating to Northwood’, to be An innovative visiting buses and Handcrafted items by second Saturday each diabetes, Methodist exhibition of hand- held at the Regatta coaches displayed local people, Town month, Church Close Church Hall, York Road, carved ceramics, Office, Bath Road, and operational from Lane hall, Newport, Community Centre, Sandown, 7.30pm, by artist Andrew Cowes, 10am to 4pm, Newport Quay to 10am to 3.30pm, Wootton, 7pm to contact Sharon Dowden, and hand- free admission. various destinations, entrance free. 10pm. Merrick, tel: 400336.

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One Island 23 TIME & PLACE 30 September to 31 December MEETINGS bluesman appearing I am a genius: at Freshwater artistic identity British Airways’ Memorial Hall as part and the artists’ Retired Staff of his current UK tour, changing status Association plus support from The (13 October) (monthly) Moonshiners, 7.30pm, A decorative and fine Meeting on the tickets £13/£15, tel: arts society lecture by third Wednesday 740843. Linda Smith, Medina each month, coffee Theatre, Newport, morning, the White Caroline MacPhie lecture 8pm, coffee Lion, Arreton, 11am. and Joseph and bar 7.15pm, visitors Middleton £6, students £2, pay Vox Pop rock and (12 November) on the door, contact pop choir West Wight Arts Judith Hook, tel: (monthly) Association presents 854322. Meeting each soprano MacPhie and Resorting to Wednesday, new pianist Middleton singers welcome, no the coast – performing songs by auditions or need to development of the Bridge, Purcell, Britten, read music, songs seaside as a holiday from 50s to 90s, at Rodrigo, Strauss, destination parish rooms, Town Mozart, Puccini and (2 November) Lane, Newport, Gounod, Memorial A talk to the Isle of 7.30pm to 9.30pm, visit Hall, Freshwater, Wight branch of the www.voxpopchoir.co.uk 7.30pm, for tickets Historical Association, tel: 752956 or email: by Dr Geoffrey Meade, administrator@ at the Parish Centre, MUSIC freshwater Town Lane, Newport, memorialhall.org.uk 7.30pm, contact Terry Sound Advice Blunden, tel: 524410. (1 October) Doric String Quartet Newchurch Male Voice (10 December) Symbolist painting: Choir concert for the West Wight Arts The age of Royal Institute for Association presents decadence 1880 to Deaf People, Salvation a string quartet 1910 Army Hall, Pyle Street, (17 November) Award-winning Texas bluesman Eugene ‘Hideaway’ Bridges performing works by Newport, 7.30pm. A decorative and fine will be performing at Freshwater Memorial Hall on Haydn, Bartok and 29 October at 7.30pm arts society lecture by Wolverton Manor Schubert, Memorial Julian Halsby, Medina Concerts Hall, Freshwater, Theatre, Newport, (12 October) 7.30pm, for tickets These listings are provided free, as a public information service. Details lecture 8pm, visitors Performance by the tel: 752956 or email: £6, students £2, pay must be submitted either by: filling out this form, or emailing your Camerata Choir in administrator@ details to [email protected] on the door, contact aid of Leukaemia freshwater Judith Hook, tel: Research, Wolverton Please conform to the format shown. Entries are included at the memorialhall.org.uk 854322. editorial team’s discretion. Next scheduled edition: 16 December Manor, Shorwell, (listings for period 16 December to 31 March). 7.30pm, tickets £15, We Three Kings: details from www. TALKS Music, art, legends Title of event/activity: wolvertonmanor.com and poetry inspired Richard Trevithick by the Magi Newchurch Male – early locomotive (2 December) Voice Choir Concert inventor A decorative and fine (13 October) Date: (5 October) arts society Christmas Charity concert for A talk to the Isle of lecture by Peter George Street Centre, Brief description: Wight branch of the Medhurst, Medina at Baptist Church, Historical Association, Theatre, Newport, George Street Centre, by Dr Robin Smith, lecture 8pm (wine and Ryde, 7.30pm. at the Parish Centre, nibbles from 7.15pm), Karim Said Town Lane, Newport, visitors £6, students (15 October) 7.30pm, contact Terry £2, pay on the door, West Wight Arts Blunden, tel: 524410. contact Judith Hook, Association presents tel: 854322. pianist Karim Said, The history of Red Counting heads – performing work by Funnel steamers Venue: 975 years of census Bach, Memorial Hall, (6 October) on the Isle of Wight Freshwater, 7.30pm, for Time: An illustrated talk (7 December) tickets tel: 752956 or by the company’s A talk to the Isle of email: administrator@ Contact name: archivist, Hazel Wight branch of the freshwater Nicholson, memorialhall.org.uk Historical Association,

Telephone: Birmingham Road by Graham and Rachel ✁ Methodist Church, Please return (by 18 November) to: Time & Place, One Island, Eugene ‘Hideaway’ Fuller, Parish Centre, Resident Information and Consultation Unit, County Hall, Bridges Cowes, 7pm, free Town Lane, Newport, Newport, Isle of Wight PO30 1UD or email to [email protected] (29 October) admission, organised 7.30pm, contact Terry Award-winning Texas by Cowes Heritage. Blunden, tel: 524410.