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Inside: Free A-Z guide to council services Spring 2010 Aiming high for the county’s disabled children Win tickets to see Jools Holland visit cumbria.gov.uk for regular updates on the issues affecting you Welcome to YourCumbria 10 magazine It’s been a harsh winter for Cumbria with some very extreme weather. From the floods in November to the ice and snow of December and January, day to day life for many people in our county has been a struggle. Following the flooding the county council has been working hard to come up with solutions to the problems that our communities face. There’s been an impressive roll call of achievements and progress made but for many people this is far from over. Read more about what we’ve done so far and our plans for the future on page six. Cumbria did not escape lightly when the temperature Contents Your Cumbria on CD! dropped and the ice and snow If you would like an audio CD of arrived. The gritters stepped this magazine call 01228 221008 into action to keep Cumbria Keeping the moving and you can find out 04 county moving more about how we deal with these treacherous conditions on Stronger communities Cumbrian page four. 06 are safer communities 18 floods And throughout it all, the county council continues to Win tickets to see Your diary provide a wide range of services, 08 Jools Holland 20 See it. Do it day in, day out. I hope this issue gives you an insight into just Better care Your A–Z guide to services some of the work we do on 09 and support 23 around the county your behalf. Enjoy your read. Putting schools at the 12 heart of the community Jim Buchanan Aiming high for the Leader of county’s disabled children Cert no. TT-COC-002166 Cumbria County Council 16 What’s the cost? Each YourCumbria costs around 18p to produce and deliver to your door. It is printed on YourCumbria FSC certified paper from sustainable sources. Please recycle the magazine when you have finished reading it. produced by Any comments? Please contact the editor on 01228 221008 or email [email protected] 3cStudio.co.uk 01228 606060 01228 606060. 01228 606060. 01228 606060. 01228 226338. 01228 606060. 01228 606060 YourNews Cumbria Libraries’ new borrowing scheme umbria County Council has joined Cother local authorities all over the UK to operate a ‘universal’ borrowing scheme in libraries. The scheme gives library users more freedom and choice when using library Fortnight services. Visitors from outside the county are able to borrow books from any one of Cumbria’s 48 public libraries without having to sign up for The Big Swap membership. All they have to do is pop into the local library with their own library card or proof of name and address, they can then borrow books and, in some libraries, also In October 2009 the distinctive borrow DVDs. Fairtrade Mark celebrated its 15th The scheme also allows library users in Cumbria to return their books to birthday. Fairtrade supporters all over any library in the county. For example, if you borrow a book from Carlisle the country, and especially in Cumbria library, you can return it to the one in Workington. where Fairtrade has strong support It’s an exciting new idea which is designed to increase accessibility to from the county council, are now libraries. Over 4,000 libraries are taking part across the country. Members of planning events for Fairtrade Fortnight our library service who are staying outside Cumbria will be able to use their this year: 22 February - 7 March. The membership cards and borrow just as they would from their local library. theme is The Big Swap. Supporters The Library Service has also launched an online will be asking the nation to swap their borrowing system called Library Elf. This allows users usual ‘stuff’ for Fairtrade ‘stuff’; your to keep track of their borrowings online. This service usual tea, coffee, bananas, wine, sugar, can send an email to the customer to let them know or oranges for Fairtrade equivalents. when their books are due back, and also sends Each swap will be proof that we a notification when reserved items are ready for want farmers in developing countries, collection. To sign up for Library Elf visit whose products we buy, to get a cumbria.gov.uk/libraries better deal, just as we want a better deal for our own farmers, especially in Cumbria. So in future always buy Fairtrade and local. Now register here – and get swapping! fairtrade.org.uk/thebigswap/ Joe Human, Coordinator, Cumbria Fair Trade Network YourCumbria 3 YourNews Sandy Cameron Keeping the county It could be you... moving School governors wanted! ave you ever thought about Hbeing a school governor? If so the Governor Development Team want to hear from you. They’ve just started a new recruitment drive to increase the number of governors in Cumbria. The team will be working with schools This winter snow, frost and ice created treacherous in areas where there is greatest need – but they’re always on the lookout conditions on the roads and underfoot. But with a for new people. Governor Support Team Manager, 30-strong fleet of specialist gritters and a host of other Sandy Cameron: “It is essential we have governors to help with the vehicles on standby, Cumbria was prepared when the leadership of our schools. While schools will always welcome people temperature dropped. with experience in finance and business, what we’re looking for is umbria Highways, the partnership Fact people who are confident, good Cbetween Cumbria County Council, The county keeps a stock listeners and feel comfortable Capita Symonds, Amey and Connect of approximately 18,000 challenging the schools.” is responsible for managing and tonnes of salt at huged barns Lisa Mosey from Grasmere is maintaining 4,784 miles of highway in main highways depots. a property administrator for the network. This covers everything from National Trust and has been a school major routes to minor rural roads. It isn’t feasible to grit every single governor at the village primary school They’re on call 24 hours a day during road so we concentrate on treating the for more than two years. She serves high season and operate from a series priority routes. These cover around on two sub committees and attends of depots across the county. They grit 1,200 miles. Priority routes are the most meetings eight times a year. “By being a core network of priority routes that important for road users in that they are a governor you can take the pressure are chosen to maintain transport used for business, leisure, recreational, off teachers so they can get on with connections for as many communities educational and domestic purposes. their jobs. It’s nice to do something as possible. The treatment times adopted by the to help the children, I feel quite county council are three hours and privileged.” Fact five hours for first and second priority Do you think you fit the bill? If so Each full grit run on all roads respectively. This is achieved by get in touch with the Governor of the priority routes ensuring that the first priority roads Development Team. Contact: uses around 300 tonnesd are treated early in the gritters’ [email protected] of rock salt. pre-determined route. or call 01228 226925. 4 YourCumbria YourNews Northern Keeping development route forges the county ahead espite dealing with a major moving Drecovery effort in west Cumbria following the unprecedented flooding How do we grit the roads? that hit the county, Cumbria County We use six-millimetre crushed Council has ensured the Carlisle rock salt to melt ice or prevent it Northern Development Route from forming on the roads during (CNDR) is progressing as planned winter. Usually, this is spread onto and to schedule. the road using a purpose-built The existing Kingmoor Railway machine, mounted on a wagon. Bridge north of Carlisle is being The spreaders are designed to give replaced with a new two-lane bridge an even distribution of salt across that will form an integral part of the road and spread the salt at CNDR. Demolition of the old bridge a controlled rate. To prevent ice took place over a 58.5-hour period from forming, we spread salt at when the west coast main line was fifteen grammes per square metre. closed, starting in the early hours of But more is needed to melt ice Christmas morning. which has already formed and the To help ensure traffic disruption rate of spread can be increased to was kept to a minimum, a temporary 40 grammes per square metre to bridge is now in use. The temporary Fact achieve this. The wagons also have bridge carries traffic travelling from Cumbria has a fleet of fittings which enable a snowplough Cargo and Rockliffe to Carlisle. The 30 gritters, each capable of to be fitted when it is needed. new Kingmoor Railway Bridge is due carrying around 10d tonnes to be completed by Autumn 2010. of salt. Who looks after what? Major construction of CNDR got Almost the entire road network underway last October and the route The priority three roads include bus in Cumbria is looked after by is set to bring massive transport and and commuter routes in the urban Cumbria Highways. Carlisle City economic improvements not just to areas and access to villages in rural Council treats certain bus routes Carlisle but to west Cumbria as well.