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HEALTH and SOCIAL CARE Southampton Labour believes that everyone is entitled to good health. We will review the care needs of our city and tailor the services we provide to meet peoples’ complex needs, both now and in the future. Your good health is at the heart of the Green City Charter. Labour will: • Build on the successes of the partnership between the NHS and Council for properly funded health and social care services that meet the needs of our city. • Strengthen local groups and organisations in our neighbourhoods to help reduce loneliness and isolation. • Upgrade the play areas in Mansel Park and Weston Shore (Pirate Trail) to help children get more exercise and be healthier. • Support and invest in services for young people with special needs. • Continue work to reduce domestic abuse in Southampton. Develop early interventions with perpetrators and those who experience abuse. • Create new extra care homes that are designed to help people with physical limitations, sight problems and dementia. Supported housing is being built at Potters Court in Millbrook; these homes meet new design guidance on how to enhance the lives of people with disabilities and age-related conditions, moving away from the institutional feel of care facilities. • Review the needs of adults with serious physical and mental health issues so that local facilities and housing give the best levels of care. • Introduce new facilities in Southampton for residents with learning disabilities and their carers. 8
CREATING OPPORTUNITIES for YOUNG PEOPLE Southampton Labour believes that every child should get the best start in life. Our local schools have done a great job raising standards; our primary schools are the ‘best improving’ in the South East of England. Our aim is that all schools will be rated as ‘good’ or ‘outstanding’ and to be a child-friendly city in everything we do. We will: • Keep open all Sure Start centres so that children get the early support they need to be ready to start school. • Guarantee that every child can go to a Southampton school by creating 1500 extra secondary places across the city with 900 of them located in a new all-through school (5–16 years) at St Mark’s, Shirley. • Invest in upgrading Chamberlayne College for the Arts into a Learning Hub for the Weston area. • Invest over £80 million to ensure school buildings across the city are fit for the 21st century. • Continue to support community programmes for young people to reduce youth offending. • Fight for improved funding for Sixth Form and Further Education Colleges, educating and training the next generation of trades and skills so that young people get secure jobs in Southampton’s growing economy. • Ensure care leavers get a good quality education and the offer of an apprenticeship within the council or other public institutions. 9
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