Swansea
Leader Issue 109
November 2017 inside
The newspaper of Swansea Council
your city: your paper
Panto time Christmas parade is on it’s way too! plus
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• LOCAL HEROES: Sisters (l to r) Lucie, Skye and Kelsey Edwards joined Swans’ legend Leon Britton for this year’s High 5 Awards, the event that celebrates the contribution of young people to their communities. More on page 7.
VITAL services which matter to the people of Swansea every day are continuing to improve. Education, safeguarding the vulnerable, improving our city’s roads, fighting poverty, creating a vibrant city centre and supportive communities are the top priorities being successfully delivered by the council. Clive Lloyd, Deputy Leader and Cabinet Member for Service Transformation and Business Operations, said: “What matters to our residents is the provision of great schools providing great teaching, better support for those facing the blight of poverty and the right care in the right place at the right time for our vulnerable old and young.” He said: “And what the latest government figures show is that we’re in the top division compared to other local authorities in Wales when it comes to
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Our focus on your priorities makes difference every day ACCORDING to figures released by the Welsh Government’s Local Government Data Unit Swansea Council is performing in the top quarter of Welsh local authorities in 32% of indicators compared with 24% for Cardiff and 12% for Newport. Four years ago Swansea was placed 20th for primary school attendance and 19th for secondary schools. Now they are both within 1% of the top-performing local authority in Wales.
things like education and environmental services. “For example, recycling rates have improved by more than 6% since this time last year and the amount of waste recycled has almost doubled since 2010 and school attendances continue to improve.” Cllr Lloyd added: “We know the people of
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Swansea have high expectations –so they should and we do too. Despite budget reductions and £54m of savings achieved in the last few years residents still expect quality services making a difference every day. “In Swansea we have responded to real-terms reductions not by salami-slicing services but by transforming them. We need to keep improving but, as the latest figures from the Welsh Government show, we’re in a good place to make further strides in the right direction.” He added: “These are good results and we are certainly not complacent. Four years ago 22% of our services were in the bottom quartile compared to other local authorities. “Now that figure’s reduced to 14% and it demonstrates how far we’ve come and that there is still lots more to do.”
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