Council plan 2030

Our priorities for the next 5 years will be:

• Working with our partners to reduce poverty and to minimise the impact of poverty on our residents.
• Helping people understand what they are entitled to so that they can access the benefits they are eligible to receive by supporting the training and development of our workforce and partnership working with Voluntary, Community and Social Enterprise (VCSE) organisations.
• Working with our schools and academy trusts to ensure we have strongly performing schools that serve children well and improve their future life chances across all key stages.
• Meeting the needs of children with special educational needs in a local school wherever possible unless specialist provision is in their best interests.
• Providing seamless, high-quality services to children and their families that are responsive to need and enable them to achieve and thrive.
• Transforming our multi agency early help system to support children to remain safely within their families, have their needs met and reduce reliance on statutory specialist services.
• Providing a children’s social care system that supports children and young people and their families and helps them to stay together in loving homes, be safe and uses the family network to help families experiencing problems.
• Reducing the number of victims of domestic abuse by being part of a multi-agency system where victims are protected and provided with support that meets their needs.
• Delivering the Community Safety Strategy bringing together strategic partners to focus on tackling anti-social behaviour, including off-road bikes, and reducing serious violence within Hartlepool.
• Delivering the Drug and Alcohol Strategy and reducing the number of drug and alcohol related deaths.
• Reducing the number of residents who smoke through the delivery of the Tobacco Control Strategy.
• Delivering new cycle schemes across the Borough to encourage residents to live healthier and more active lives.
• Delivering targeted health improvement campaigns and interventions to improve the health and wellbeing of local people.
• Put in place interventions to start to tackle the inequalities in life expectancy and healthy life expectancy.
• Supporting local employers to create cultures that value the health and wellbeing of their workforce and wider community through the Better Health at Work Award. 
• Working together with partners to develop local, accessible services and opportunities for residents to increase their physical activity including the Highlight Active Wellbeing Hub.
• Delivering an Adult Social Care information and advice offer promoting wellbeing and independence and making people aware of what’s already available in the community. Expanding this to include digital and technology solutions that allow people to self-serve, such as online financial assessment.
• Providing or commissioning high quality adult social care services that are safe, timely, responsive and person-centred, and enable people to be supported by well trained and appropriately skilled staff. 
• Focussing on early action and support that promotes care closer to home and prevents avoidable admissions to hospital and to permanent residential care.
• Delivering an approach to safeguarding adults that meets the needs of adults who are most at risk of abuse or neglect.
• Supporting opportunities for local people to volunteer and improve their confidence, skills, and experience and to contribute to the local community.
• Increasing the literacy skills of adults for life and work, by realising the ambition of the Hartlepool Literacy Taskforce.
• Engaging residents in learning to increase their skills, confidence and raise their aspirations through the delivery of Hartlepool Employment and Skills Strategy.
• Continuing to develop our Community Hubs, providing opportunities for people to access support and services.
• Supporting our communities to be strong, resilient, empowered and inclusive.