Jackie’s County Corner for January Wishing you an active and healthy 2021 all problems New Year, new you? If you are a young person on the HCC (between 16 and 24), have you heard of the website: Kickstart scheme? This enables employers priority to give a young person the opportunity to is given take up 6 months of meaningful, paid work to those experience. See more at https://jackieporter. incidents mycouncillor.org.uk/2020/12/02/kickstartwhich result in flooded homes scheme-six-month-paid-work-placementsor sewage systems. for-young-people-aged-16-24/ If you are The County has recently agreed a pilot interested in employing someone for 25 hours scheme within the Itchen Valley division per week, costs paid by the Government, to look at practical ways to slow or collect please email kickstart@hants.gov.uk for more water before it floods communities. We’re not details .If you are a young person, apply for ready to import beavers yet but it is looking at Universal Credit (mainly open to 18-24), and innovative ways to do this, which I welcome! explain to your assigned Work Coach that Flytipping : We have had some horrendous you are interested in the kickstart scheme. examples recently. Call 999 if you see it Hospital consultation: This is gathering happening, or go to the Winchester website pace, with two sites and three delivery options, or app to report fly-tipping. The pile will be to be consulted upon in Spring 2021. You can checked for evidence, marked as seen and see more on www.hampshiretogether.nhs.uk then collected. There are about 200 incidents Watch out for online events where you a month, so please continue to report – it can hear more and ask questions before will at least to keep our countryside tidy. you respond to the consultation. HCC has Operation Transition: Brexit is happeningalso set up a Scrutiny Committee to look and the County is preparing to be a at this: I will attend these meetings, so if ‘checking station for customs papers before there’s anything you’d like to know contact the HGVs arrive at Portsmouth. The City the website above -or write direct to me. I Council report in this magazine covers have a list of questions (they are on my the impact of the workings of the scheme, website) but I’d like to hear your views too. but contact me if you have a query. Flooding: The Autumn brought flooding School vouchers for children and families: even where it hadn’t happened before. The This a new scheme, aiming to help those new County team assigned to the Itchen facing hardship because of the COVID-19 Valley Division has been getting to grips (pun pandemic . It is being funded from the £2.89 intended!) with the problems. I ask you to million Winter Grant Scheme, awarded to copy me into any which are not responded to HCC by the (DWP), as part of a programme of relatively quickly: the new officer for this area supportive measures over winter. More details is helpful, but work planned takes longer if a on hants.gov.uk or my website. Schools and road closure is required. Please continue to log Citizens Advice Bureaux can use these grants 18
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