Progress: Maximising Wellbeing

The Activehearts programme in the County Council’s care homes has continued to provide a wide range of activities and entertainments.

Agreement was reached for an Adult Services and District Councils partnership to modernise 200 units of existing sheltered to Extra Care housing standard by March 2009. Adult Services also intend to work with District Councils and Registered Social Landlords in order to develop approximately 200 new units of Extra Care in four locations across the County.     

GCSE results continue to improve with 52.08% of 16 year olds achieving five or more A*-C grades, including the core subjects of  Mathematics and English, more than one percentage point above Hampshire’s 2006 result of 51.01%. The percentage of pupils achieving more than five A*-G grades is the highest ever at 93.3%.  There were strong results in many of our high attaining schools (even when the schools’ more favourable contexts are taken into account), with 94% of pupils in one school achieving five or more A*-C grades – also believed to be the highest percentage ever seen in Hampshire.

Year 11 leavers who fell into the classification of being ‘Not in Employment, Education or Training’ (NEET) reduced from 5.98% in 2006 to 4.49% in 2007 and at the same time the percentage of young people in full time education increased from 80.43% in 2006 to 81.55% in 2007

The number of schools providing healthy living environments increased with 328 (60.9%) schools achieving Healthy Schools status.