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ROTHER VALLEY WEST (Draft) Neighbourhood Charter March 2006 Building Sustainable Neighbourhoods “A place to live, where people have choice, quality & aspiration” ROTHER VALLEY WEST (Draft) Neighbourhood Charter March 2006 (Treeton Village Community & Resource Centre, Pit Lane, Treeton) What you can expect from local services in your area This document can be made available in large print, Braille, audio tape and we will provide minicom, induction loops and text talk facilities at all our offices. We will translate all documents into different languages within 10 working days, and in urgent cases, arrange for a translator to communicate the information. We will also use a National Interpretation Service to communicate with customers whose first language is not English and provide same gender interviews where customers prefer it 1 Section Content No. 1. What the Charter is 2. More about your Area Assembly Chair and Neighbourhood Management 3 Area Profiles 4. The Vision for Rotherham 5. Governance Arrangements 6. Your Neighbourhood Standards 7. How to get involved 8. How we will involve you 9. How agencies work together 10. Indicative Priority Standards 11. Your Local Councillors 12. You’re Local Councillors and public meeting dates 13. Appendix 1. What the Charter is? My name is Jon Swift and I Chair Rother Valley West Area Assembly, which covers Treeton, Brinsworth, Fence, Catcliffe, Aston, Swallownest, Orgreave, Ulley, Thurcroft and Brampton en le Morthen and as the Chair of the Rother Valley West Area Assembly would like to welcome you to the first Neighbourhood Charter for your area. Area Assemblies offers one of the opportunities for local residents to become involved and influence decisions your council makes at a local level. There is a section later in this Charter that details other ways to get involved. .As a Neighbourhood leader I am committed to following your priorities and I strongly support the use of local charters to monitor how we perform as a council and drive us forward to more improvements in our services. Neighbourhood Charters will be used as a tool to formally capture the collective agreement of partners within an area assembly to deliver services in a particular way. The Charter will include general information specific to each assembly area but will also ultimately set out an agreed set of commitments by service providers, negotiated with communities through the restructured area assembly process and existing links with 2 community organisations .This will enable communities to influence service planning, the further development of neighbourhood standards and tailored actions in response to localised concerns. The process will be underpinned by an appropriate performance management framework. This charter is also a clear guide to how the council makes decisions, how you can get involved and what you can expect from specific Rotherham Borough Council services. We have listened to what you have said already about the priorities for your area and we have fed that into our delivery of key services. The agencies signing up to this charter with Rotherham Borough Council are pledging to be clear about the standard of services they offer and they are keen to involve you in deciding how your services are delivered. The Charter will set out how the agencies work together in new ways to address your local issues. This Charter lays out the specific standards of service you should expect from the Borough Council in areas like waste disposal and highway repairs. In future the intention is to include standards for other services and agencies, including the Police and the Primary Care Trust. Charters are being produced for each of Rotherham’s seven Area Assemblies and we will be working with your community to ensure the standards are achieved. This Charter includes details on how you can get involved in that process too. The Charter is a new approach and will be trialled in 2006. We would like your feedback both on the approach and also on how other services and agencies should be included in the expanded charters of the future. We the undersigned are committed to the Charter principles and to improving the delivery of your local services. _______________________________ _________________________ Rotherham Borough Council Primary Care Trust _______________________________ _________________________ South Yorkshire Police Voluntary Action Rotherham 2. More about your Area Assembly Chair and Neighbourhood Management The Rother Valley West Area Assembly covers the South West parts of Rotherham with areas that are both urban and semi-rural. There are a number of residential areas with a variety of properties including council estates plus a range of local amenities and facilities that service local communities. However there are a number of changes in the area which result from its mining history and associated economic decline. There are large areas of brown field development, evidence of environmental decline and access to public services can be a problem in rural areas. The Borough Council and its partners are addressing these problems .The Objective 1 programme (European funding for economic growth in South Yorkshire ) has invested in supporting local partnerships in the area and considerable investment is being made in the Waverley Strategic Economic Site. 3 Action is also being taken to tackle the problems of anti- social behaviour and community safety, poor health, low educational attainment and to address local environment and traffic issues. The area enjoys the benefit of a number of parks as well as country parks such as Ulley and Rother Valley. Many of these spaces are being improved and enhanced. A new sports centre and swimming pool is coming to Aston and there are other plans to improve facilities for young people. In Rotherham we consider that neighbourhood management is a way of working that can be effective in reshaping services at a neighbourhood level, helping to close the gap between the most deprived communities. Neighbourhood management will help partners; • Target actions and tailor services so that no-one is disadvantaged by where they live. • Transform the nature of service delivery to reflect the specific needs of communities. • Measure perceptions about the change in the quality of life within neighbourhoods. We will use the experience and knowledge gained through our neighbourhood management process to; • Enable better joint research and commissioning of services. • To inform strategic planning exercises • And inform resource allocation across the borough. This will be possible because we will collectively gain a better understanding of need through the involvement of our communities. We want you to help the council make sure standards are maintained and improved and to make your views known. So help us make a difference and get involved in the Area Assembly process, change our area for the better. Signed Cllr John Swift _________________ Date ____________________ Your Area Assembly meets every second Monday in the month at local venues. Contact Adrian Cheetham your Neighbourhood Manager on 01709 823488 or see your local council website www.rotherham.gov.uk 4 3. Area Profiles Rother Valley West covers the south-west of the Borough, covering an area of 14.5 square miles. The Area Assembly covers the three wards of Brinsworth & Catcliffe, Holderness and Rother Vale. The population of 34,088 is concentrated in the main urban areas of Aston, Aughton, Swallownest and Brinsworth and the smaller communities of Catcliffe, Treeton and Orgreave. Rother Valley West is ranked the 1st area assembly (out of 7 assemblies) for people achieving 5 or more GCSEs grades A* to C. Rother Valley West is the 6th ranked area assembly (out of 7 area assemblies) for vehicle crime and for domestic burglary. 5 NEIGHBOURHOOD PROFILE 2001 Census Statistics Area Profile Rotherham Profile Population 34,088 248,175 Males 16,617 120,694 Females 17,471 127,482 Aged 0-4 5.79% 6.05% 5-17 17.07% 17.60% 18-29 13.42% 13.27% 30-59 43.68% 42.27% 60 + over 20.04% 20.82% Ethnicity White British 97.8% 96.9% Black and Minority Ethnic 2.2% 3.1% Health People not in good health 11.3% 12.1% People with Long-term Illness 21.0% 22.4% Economic Status Economically Active 49.20% 64% Unemployment rate 2.7% 3.94% Long term sick/disabled 7.0% 7.90% Qualifications People with no qualifications 36.0% 36.8% Housing Vacant household spaces 13.5% 3.39% Detached/Semi-detached 96.1% 69.3% Terraced 16.2% 20.2% Flat 6.8% 10.4% Owner Occupation 60.9% 65.3% Council Rented 28.7% 23.2% Other Rented 10.4% 11.4% Overcrowding 3.0% 3.9% Households with children 32.1% 31.8% All pensioner households 22.1% 23.8% In Rother Valley West, men can expect to live until they are 76 years old (the Rotherham average is 75) and women can expect to live until they are 79 years old (the Rotherham average is 79). 4. The 2010 Vision for Rotherham By the year 2010, we believe that the many challenges facing us can be tackled, and in some cases overcome completely, by organisations in the public, private and voluntary sectors listening to local communities, agreeing common goals and developing realistic, practical ways of achieving them. 6 These are also the 5 main themes of Rotherham Community strategy which guides the work of all service providers across the borough and lays out the principles of our partnership working which are Rotherham Achieving A Prosperous place, with a vibrant, mixed and diverse economy and flourishing businesses. Rotherham Learning Local residents will be recognised as being informed, skilled, creative, and innovative and constructively challenging. Rotherham Alive Rotherham will be a place where people feel good, are healthy, active and enjoy life to the full. Rotherham Safe All our Neighbourhoods will be safe, green and well maintained.
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