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South Somerset District Council Responsibility for the Products Or Services (01935) 462462 Advertised IS TH N IO IN IT ED Stay well this winter Foster to Adopt A day in the life of... Child Sexual Exploitation pages 8&9 page 17 pages 12&13 page 14 Winter 2016 South Your Somerset Somerset HINKLEY POINT C - a big boost for Somerset’s economy see pages 4 & 5 Your priority, our priority upporting vulnerable older people is 26,000 Somerset residents are living with two your top priority. For the fourth year or more such conditions, an increase of Srunning that’s what you’ve told us around ten per cent over five years. through our Listening Learning Changing campaign. Helping people manage these conditions to live active, independent lives is what social It’s our top priority too and our biggest area of care and health services are here for, but it spend. It accounted for £140m of our spend comes at a financial cost. We know people last year - a staggering £383,000 a day and want to stay living independently in their own an increase of £8m over three years. We spend £383,000 communities for as long as possible and only a day on supporting have contact with care support when it’s People are living longer and within the next vulnerable people really needed. We also know that prevention 15 years we expect people aged 65 or over is better than cure and that people recover to make up more than a quarter of the more quickly out of hospital and in their own population across the county, and in some homes. communities more than 50 per cent. That’s great news, but the rising cost of care is one All this means everyone has to think of the big issues that we, like other councils differently and more creatively about care - across the country, are wrestling with. how it’s provided, who it’s provided by and More people are seeking social care support. where. We’ve started doing this in West Crucially, the number of people living with Somerset (see page 7) and we will be more than one long-term health condition, working with communities in the near future like high blood pressure or diabetes, is to take this work forward across the county. growing rapidly. It’s estimated that around Continued on page 3 02 News Foreword John Osman Contact us Leader Building There’s now just one number to phone for all Somerset business County Council services. 0300 hrough our Listening Learning Changing initiative, you’ve told By telephone Tus once again that looking after 0300 123 2224 vulnerable adults is your top priority. Phone lines are open from 8am to 6pm, Monday to Friday, and from 9am to 4pm As winter takes hold – a season that always on Saturdays. puts extra demands on health and social care – it’s a very timely reminder of just how vital By post these services are. Somerset County Council, County Hall, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 4DY Our population is ageing and the figures speak ew businesses and jobs are on the way for for themselves: we spend £383,000 a day to Highbridge next year with the expansion of By email support vulnerable adults. That’s a figure that Nthe town’s Enterprise Centre. [email protected] really brings home the cost of care. Planning permission has been granted to add Please phone the numbers below Like councils across the country, our budgets three more light industrial units on the site, which for the following services: haven’t kept pace with social care demand is already home to 14 businesses and 25 jobs. and we’re looking at how we can do things Fostering and Adoption enquiries differently. In the coming months and years Jointly funded by Somerset County Council and 0800 587 9900 you’ll see a growing emphasis on preventing the Heart of the South West Local Enterprise illness and encouraging and helping more Partnership, the £490,000 expansion is Somerset Heritage Centre community-led support (page 3). (01823) 278805 scheduled to be completed by September 2017 ‘Investing in the economy’ and ‘attracting jobs providing 234 square metres of new space. Somerset Road Safety and apprenticeships’, were next on your Businesses with five staff or less are responsible (01823) 423430 priority list - two areas we are keenly aware of. for most economic growth in Somerset, and Prosperity pays for everything and we’re Somerset Skills and Learning availability of suitable space is a real barrier to 0330 332 7997 committed to making sure that the Hinkley Point development gives Somerset long-term their start-up and expansion. Somerset Waste Parnership economic benefits (page 4-5) and investing in Highbridge is one of five Enterprise Centres (01823) 625700 the county’s transport network to make sure across the county providing light industrial and it’s a place people want to come to do Other useful numbers business. office space to meet those needs, particularly in Citizens Advice Consumer Service more rural areas. Helpline 0345 404 0206 Thanks to everyone who gave their views. You can read the full Listening Learning Changing Together with the others in Frome, Dulverton, Street Lighting Faults report on our website at Wheddon Cross and Minehead; the network 0845 601 0939 www.somerset.gov.uk/listening supports 45 businesses and more than 100 jobs. (office hours) and 0845 795 9639 (for out of hours emergencies) Editor’s Info Student Finance Direct Secret Somerset (Higher Education Students only) To get in contact with Your Somerset or to 0845 607 7577 advertise in this publication, contact winners revealed… Lauren Fellingham on (01823) 359176 , Congratulations to the four lucky winners of the Secret Wellington Community Office email [email protected] or write (01823) 667279 Somerset tourism competition, which appeared in the to us at Your Somerset , Somerset County summer edition of Your Somerset. Council, FREEPOST NAT 9109, County Hall, District Councils Taunton, TA1 4DY. Mendip District Council The winners: Victoria Hughes from Wellington 0300 303 8588 We gratefully acknowledge the support of from Bagley organisations that advertise in Your Somerset , Russell Hide Sedgemoor District Council Martyn Gould of Somerton 0845 408 2540 but Somerset County Council can accept no Margaret Norvell from Wellington South Somerset District Council responsibility for the products or services (01935) 462462 advertised. We advise readers to make their Secret Somerset used local knowledge to highlight Taunton Deane Borough Council own enquires before purchasing products or and promote some of the hidden gems and lesser services. known places in our beautiful county. Readers were (01823) 356356 asked to answer three questions based on 50 secret West Somerset District Council Pssst... Your Somerset costs 5p per copy Somerset locations. To discover new places to visit, (01643) 703704 to produce. see www.visit-exmoor.co.uk/secrets News 03 the care Changing conversation ur population and its needs other hand, can easily lead to are changing. We need to independence regained for the Ochange the way care long-term. is provided to reflect this and Increasingly, we will look to make sure our services are encourage and stimulate more financially sustainable in the of this kind of informal support and long-term. make it easier for people to find and access it - support in the Many relatively low level care needs community, by the community. We can be best met without any need have been developing this approach for the Council to be involved. And in West Somerset and will be looking when we do get involved, our care to take this across the county in the should be for a short period of time coming months. and geared towards giving people the skills or equipment to live well Closer working between social care without it. and health services will be key. One of the ways this is happening is It’s easy for a small amount of care through the Sustainability and to lead to a cycle of dependence Transformation Plan, which looks to and need for more care. Regular transform the system over the next socialising, physical activity or a five years. You can find out more small home adaptation, on the here www.somerset.gov.uk/stp Winter waste omerset Waste Partnership (SWP) is Collections – All collections will be Sgearing up for the festive ‘internet one day later during the post-Christmas avalanche’ of cardboard and all the fortnight, and there will be no garden extra recycling and rubbish that makes waste services. But severe weather can its way onto kerbsides over Christmas. cause delays. If snow or ice prevents You can help keep services running collections, crews will make a return pick- smoothly by doing a few simple things: up as soon as possible. So keep putting your containers out by 7am and check Cardboard – one of the biggest the SWP website for advice. Collections Christmas issues. Once this section of the resume on their usual days from Monday recycling truck is full, it must stop work 9 January. and return to the depot to unload, even when space remains for everything else. For more information Please flatten boxes and cut up large about Christmas sheets to make as much room as collection days and possible. recycling centre opening Rubbish bins – make sure lids are hours, visit www.somerset closed and don’t leave any waste waste.gov.uk. outside your bin. Card and any other excess recycling or PS: You can take refuse can either undecorated natural be stored to add Christmas trees to to your weekly recycling sites for collection over composting. Garden the following few waste subscribers can weeks or taken put them out on the to any recycling usual collection day site.
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