DELIVERING FOR HERTFORDSHIRE
The Conservative Plan for Hertfordshire includes significant investment by:
- Providing sound and robust financial management delivering annualised savings of £367 million amounting to a total of £2.7 billion over the last decade.
- Raising care worker pay above the living wage for residential, nursing and supported living establishments, across disability and older people’s services, no one should earn less than £9.50 per hour;
- Supporting the Voluntary Sector, including and additional £2m for an enhanced package in 2021/22 to support COVID recovery:
- Investing in safeguarding in adult social care;
- Providing permanent funding for the Domestic Violence Service;
- Investing in prevention and early help, supporting diversion work that aims to avoid children becoming looked after;
- Supporting the recovery from COVID. Additional funding of £1.5m will be invested into Health Inequalities, Healthy Places and Mental Health;
- £11m over 4 years to enable the council to bring forward proposals to help tackle some longer term issues of inequality;
- £53m of investment in new Special Schools and specialist resource provision to enable delivery of the SEND strategy;
- Providing 10,536 additional school place over the next 4 years.
- £13m to re-build one whole school and providing additional capacity across the County
- £10m as part of the Climate Change response, to improve drainage in response to highways flooding brought about by increasing and changing rainfall patterns;
- £7m to help the roll out of 20 mph speed limits areas;
- £12m to drive forward delivery of the Sustainable Hertfordshire strategy including its commitment to climate change;
- Delivering the County’s first Net Zero Carbon School.
- Creating a £2m investment fund to support driving forward Growth and Infrastructure work in the County;
- Investing in new innovative on-demand bus services in rural areas;
- Investing in new £9m fund for bus priority measures;
- Working with operators to introduce electric buses;
- Improving frequency of bus services along key corridors;
- Demanding up to £80m pa from developers to support growth and deliver infrastructure;
- Investing £6m in footways new cycleways
- Investing in technology to ensure the organisation can modernise and take advantage of new ways of working.
- Investing £13 million in expanding Stevenage Recycling Centre and building a new site at Tewin Road in Welwyn Garden City.
- £12m to re-locate the Heritage and Archives Service and facilities to new suitable premises.
- Continuing to re-locate our libraries into more suitable premises to support the regeneration of the High Street where possible.
- Delivering against the 2019-23 Integrated Risk Management Plan (IRMP) so that appropriate Fire Prevention, Protection and Response resources are provided.