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Community & Well-being Strategy
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- Work across the council in order develop community resilience and reduce the need for and burden on statutory services – ON TARGET
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- A review of early intervention and prevention support including community-based resilience has been completed
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Council Tax and Benefit Support
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- To maximise benefits take up for customers by providing advice as required and referrals as appropriate (demand led) - ON TARGET
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- Provided council tax and benefit advice to 890 referrals
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- To administer Housing Benefits accurately in line with DWP regulations (demand led) - ON TARGET
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- Awarded £24 million in housing benefits
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- To award Discretionary Housing Payments in line with the relevant council policy - ON TARGET
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- Provided £429,000 in Discretionary Housing Payments
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- To administer the Council Tax Reduction Scheme efficiently (demand led) - ON TARGET
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- Given £10.6 million to 9,227 recipients through Council Tax Reduction Scheme
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- To award Free School Meals - ON TARGET
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- Processed 4256 claims for Free School Meals
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Benefits and Financial Assessments
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- To award school uniform grants - ON TARGET
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- Processed 3185 claims for school uniform grants
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- To award guardianship/adoption payments - ON TARGET
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- Provided 200 guardian / adoption payments
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- To carry out social care means testing assessments - ON TARGET
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- Carried out 1,195 social care means tested assessments
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Domiciliary Care Strategy
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- Using the learning from the North Area pilot seek a provider to pilot in the South Area to inform a future patched based commissioning model which will improve outcomes for residents and capacity in the domiciliary care market - CANCELLED
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- Employed Enablement Support worker and eablement Practitioners.
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- Increase the use of assistive technology to compliment or replace direct care services in order to support people to maintain and achieve greater levels of independence - DELAYED
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- Develop recruitment and retention interventions for all Social Care workers in Torfaen to enable a stable workforce to be able to be maintained - ON TARGET
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- Implement & monitor the first years' performance of the new Information, Advice and Assistance Service (IAA) Service (Front Door) - COMPLETED
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- Implement & monitor the first years' performance of the new Reablement Service - COMPLETED
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- Prepare procurement of a new Care Management System (for 2025/26 implementation) - COMPLETED
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Communities Strategy
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- Review and align community commissioning (Major Third Sector Grant Review) to ensure that it aligns to the Advice, Assistance & Prevention requirements in each of our communities – DELAYED
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- Work with each Community Council to prepare an action plan for how we will work together to improve resilience and wellbeing in their community - DELAYED
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Community Well-being Strategy
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- Number of Community Connector case closures that were not subsequently opened to social care for assessment in the next 6 months - ON TARGET
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- Record the number of Community Connector case closures who have maintained or improved independence - ON TARGET
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- Supported 944 people to maintain or improve their independence
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- Participants who achieve an improvement in mental health & wellbeing on exit from the Building Resilient Communities programme - ON TARGET
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- Helped 192 people to improve their mental health and wellbeing
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- Number of community halls delivering additional information, advice or assistance that meets the identified community wellbeing priorities - ON TARGET
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- Worked with 10 community halls to provide additional information, advice or assistance
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Community Well-being Strategy
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- Maintain the proportion of people who find the libraries Job Claimants support service helpful at 98% or above - COMPLETE
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Housing Support Grant
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- Deliver the 2024/25 Rapid Rehousing Plan and Housing Support Grant programmes as part of our aim to prevent homelessness and provide individuals who are homeless with the right accommodation and support - COMPLETE
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- Opened Pearl House, in Pontypool, for short-term homeless accommodation
- Amended offer to private landlords
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- Reshape and refocus the youth accommodation pathway in order to deliver better outcomes for young people in need and at risk of homelessness - COMPLETED
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- Developed a housing guide for young people
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- Add 20 additional supported housing units and realign supported accommodation provision to reduce those at risk of homelessness - COMPLETED
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- Prevent homelessness in at least 50% of cases where there is a risk of homelessness - DELAYED
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- Prevented homelessness in 31.4 per cent of cases where homelessness was a risk
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- Percentage of households placed in temporary accommodation for 6 months or more at the end of each quarter - ON TARGET
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- Reduced the number of households in temporary accommodations for 6 months or more to 19.8%
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Universal Free School Meals
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- Serve a total of 702,000 nutritious meals to primary pupils - ON TARGET
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- Served 724,439 meals served to primary pupils
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Local Development Plan
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- We will secure affordable homes through the planning system COMPLETED
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- We will secure 150 affordable homes to market during the last 3 years of the County Plan - ON TARGET
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- 86 affordable homes created
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A Healthier Wales: Our Plan for Health and Social Care; Housing (Wales) Act 2014; and Renting Homes (Wales) Act 2016)
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- We will improve housing standards and identify risks to health and safety by responding to and learning from complaints from residents about private rented properties - ON TARGET
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- Dealt with 38 housing-related complaints in Q4, 34 of which were dealt with through informal action. Inspections were carried out at 4 properties using the Housing Health and Safety Rating System (HHSRS), which identified hazards relating to crowding and space, excess cold, and damp and mould.
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Food resilience and Food 4 Growth Shared Prosperity Programme
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- Create and deliver a Food Strategy based upon the Growing Food Connections consultancy report aimed at delivering the Torfaen Good Food Priorities contained within the Torfaen Food Charter. This will be achieved by the creation of a comprehensive action plan for the year 2025-2026 - DELAYED
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- Deliver a business focused Food Development Grant Scheme - COMPLETED
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- 21 Food Development Grants delivered equating to £247,720.67
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- Deliver a Community Food Scheme, supporting third sector community food project to improve accessibility to affordable and healthy food - COMPLETED
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- 35 community grants delivered with a total value of £273,000
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