East Midlands 5 pack + 1 programme 2010.

Low cost CPD for Environmental Health

4th November 2010

Housing Seminar

Neighbourhood Hit Squad Workshop

Tables 1-5

Housing conditions;

  • Landlord Accreditation Scheme
  • Tenancy support
  • Boiler services Boiler repair scheme
  • Hazard house(training to co-ordinate agencies to identify issues within the home)
  • First contact
  • Home safety referral scheme
  • Home energy LINCS partnership insulation scheme
  • Handy person scheme
  • Fire housing protocol (issue smoke alarms)
  • Utilities/energy campaigns
  • Environmental service providers as the eyes and ears of the community, ie; rubbish, abandoned vehicles etc
  • Lack of health engagement was apparent (perhaps involve GP’s and ‘health trainers’ GP’s do have access to significant funds now)
  • Any potential is about Section 106 funds for new play and social areas

Environmental issues;

  • Environment agency
  • Voluntary street warden scheme

Community concerns;

  • HIA (other funding sources)
  • Shared empty property project
  • CAB/debt advice
  • Handy ma/gardening scheme
  • Home Improvement agency
  • Neighbourhood management
  • Pensions service
  • Phoenix project Normanton warm homes (DASH)
  • Health training project

Tables 6-10

Housing conditions;

  • Empty property groups
  • Area based initiatives
  • Housing standards
  • Travellers liaison groups (where applicable)
  • EMLAS (landlord accreditation)
  • Excess crowding cold (Leicester)
  • Warm front
  • Domestic violence
  • Home Improvement Agency
  • Handyvan
  • Fire service
  • Community safety partnership
  • Housing support
  • Tenant/resident forums (help to establish)
  • ‘First Contact’ (multi agency referee scheme with Leicestershire)

Environmental issues;

  • Priority neighbourhood group (do environmental inspections – massive results)
  • Neighbourhood watch

Community concerns;

  • Safer neighbourhood tasking groups
  • Economic crime unit (illegals) (Leicester)
  • Fire and rescue service (Leicester)
  • DFG (no other money) (Leicester)
  • City wardens (Leicester)
  • Healthy homes initials (Liverpool)
  • Health through warmth (Leicester)
  • First contract
  • Vulnerable adults group (Mulh – agency group who try to solve issues for vulnerable adults) (MeltonBC)
  • First Contact (multi agency referral mechanism) Leicestershire)
  • FIP (family intervention project, multi agency dealing with families with ‘issues’)
  • Framework
  • Kick boxing to keep kids off the streets – very successful (MeltonBC)
  • Anti social behaviour groups
  • Crime and disorder partnership
  • CAB
  • Neighbourhood watch
  • Volunteer action bureau’s
  • Health improvement workers PCT
  • Adult service (safeguarding adults)
  • Family intervention project – FIP
  • Fire service (home safety checks)
  • Police (local area tasking teams)

Tables 11-15

Housing conditions;

  • Landlord forum
  • Derby accreditation scheme
  • GP prescription project
  • Landlord accreditation scheme through DASH
  • L.A, S.215 group - Planning enforcement team
  • Home improvement agency
  • Traveller liaison officer
  • HMO action zones funded through licensing
  • Landlords forum (SKDC)
  • Energy efficiency promotion

Environmental issues;

  • Area walkabouts (community leaders, councillors, EHO, police, local residents, wardens)
  • Clean sweep - stop and search with police, revenue etc, for fly tippers etc
  • Student union (for clear ups)
  • Public health forums
  • Arson task force
  • Environmental agency
  • Targeted amnesty schemes (SKDC)
  • Planning enforcement
  • Waste management
  • Police
  • Fire authority
  • Bins on streets projecy (Derby city)
  • Fats oils and greases project with Anglian water
  • Health promotions - excess cold
  • Neighbourhood walkabouts (DerbyCity)

Community concerns;

  • Meditation services
  • Area focus days –table 12
  • Migrant impact funds
  • Neighbourhood action groups (Env/community)
  • Safe and sound project (multi agency project focussing ensuring householders have access to services in rural areas)
  • Brackley community alcohol project
  • Work with local schools for young people
  • Religious groups
  • Village agent project
  • Community Cohesion group (Derby city)
  • DVLA vehicle registration team(abandoned cars etc)
  • First contact
  • Roma Strategy Group (Derby city)
  • Derby first forum -work with drug users (recovering) involved in house clean up etc
  • Community Focus Forum – made up of local residents groups, community groups & services each have representative i.e youth; gay & lesbian, Age Concern, disability groups, Church