Maximising Wellbeing

This priority is about improving quality of life in Hampshire, ensuring that everyone has the opportunity to support themselves, be active in their community and have access to the services they need.

In 2010/11

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  Over 3,000 adults used personal budgets, choosing the support services they wanted through self-directed support.

   

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  A record 61.5% of school pupils achieved five or more GCSEs at grade A*-C, including English and maths in summer 2010 exams.

   

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  100% of Children’s Centres inspected by Ofsted were found to be good or outstanding.

   

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  Our Children’s Services Department was judged as performing excellently by Ofsted inspectors, who said that the County Council has “an unrelenting focus on improving outcomes for children and young people and the quality of services provided for them”.

   

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  We opened the refurbished Waterlooville Library and Learning Centre and Basingstoke Discovery Centre. Both centres provide enhanced facilities, wifi access, self service and Hantsdirect local.

   

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  Our museums were visited over half a million times.

   

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  Over 114,000 new concessionary travel passes were issued.

   

How did we perform against targets?

• We achieved 38% of our targets for this priority.
• 58% of measures showed improvement from 2009/10.

You can find out more about our performance against targets in the Cabinet report Open for Business – A Review of Key Strategies and Progress; Building on Success and Improvement.