| Reference No | 10080090 |
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| Date Last Amended | 25 August 2010 |
| Contact Name | Simon Shuttleworth |
| Position | Neighbourhood Manager |
| Contact Telephone No | 0161 770 4720 |
| Area of Responsibility | ALL |
| Wards Affected | Saint James' Saint Mary's Waterhead |
| Title | PARTNER UPDATE |
| Summary | Partners may take this opportunity to update the District Partnership on work currently being undertaken or raise issues they wish to highlight to the District Partnership. |
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| Decision | Partners gave the following updates: i) Waterhead Academy - Julie Rogers, Assistant Vice Principal of Waterhead Academy, together with Louise Fox, Assistant Principal of Communications and Marketing at Oldham College, attended the meeting for this item. Louise Fox gave an update on various aspects of the student integration. The meeting was informed that the Academy would open in September 2010 in the two existing buildings which would be known as the Roxbury and the Moorside campus. The Waterhead Academy would open on the new site in September 2012. A new website had been developed to enable communication with stakeholders details of which were submitted; along with a timetable for the building programme and details of student integration plans. Members welcomed the report and the Chair thanked both Julie and Louise for their input to the meeting. ii) Police - Inspector Melita Worswick GMP advised on the following: A lot of hard work was being carried out by residents and partners in the Shakespeare Road area; Work in the Beresford Street area, where there had been issues with children congregating around the steps, had taken off quite quickly; It had been recognised that there appeared to have been an increase in anti social behaviour on Wednesday evenings and in a bid to combat this "Operation Algebra" had been extended to cover Wednesdays; Police Cuts - Inspector Worswick advised that there were no plans at present to cut the number of PCSOs working in the area. In response to a Partner's query the meeting was advised that the increase in anti social behaviour had been in the Ripponden Road and Huddersfield Road areas. Julie Rodgers offered to look at what activities the Academy offered on these evenings and Jayne Entwistle agreed to flag up this issue with Steve Hardy. The Chair thanked Inspector Worswick for the work of the Police in East Oldham and commended in particular the work that had been carried out at Wellyhole Street. (iii) Groundwork - Dawn Fox offered to assist with the above and also advised on the following: A Friday night session had been piloted from 8pm until 10pm at which there had been a good turn out with on average 28 young people attending the session; Additional sessions in Stoneleigh Park and at Pearly Bank were also now available. The Chair thanked Dawn for her input to the meeting. (iv) Positive Steps - Jayne Entwistle reported that Positive Steps had played a very active part in "Better Life Chances" in St Mary's and Derker. Children's Centres at Beever, Stoneleigh and Littlemoor were also working closely with Positive Steps. in addition to the usual NEET activities and active programme had been undertaken with School Improvement Attendance. (v) NHS - Alan Higgins informed the meeting that he would be happy to provide a briefing on any NHS related matter that was requested by Members of the District Partnership for the next meeting. (vi) Integrated Youth Service - Cathy Lingard reported on the following: Officers had been very busy delivering a whole range of activities across Oldham in the form of day and residential activities. Future activities included: - East Oldham Together Day to be held at Sholver Youth Centre during half term. - Staysafe to be held at Waterhead park on 17th September 2010. -Sholver Youth Centre Junior and Senior Youth Clubs - Dance on Wednesday night, Community Chair on Wednesday evening and a Gym provision was being developed. - Youth Only Zone - Oldham Sports Centre - Saturday 6pm to 8pm. Cathy informed the meeting that during Ramadan youth workers had been working very closely with young people and police. RESOLVED - That the update be noted. |
| Decision made by | EAST OLDHAM DISTRICT PARTNERSHIP |
| Date of Decision | 06 September 2010 |
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