What is a School Street?
The purpose of a school street is to tackle the congestion at the school gates and improve the air quality for travel to school.
When the school street is operational at the start and end of the school day, the road becomes a temporary walking and cycling in line with Trafford Council’s Walking, Wheeling and Cycling Strategy.
Access would still be maintained for residents, businesses, valid blue badge holders, pedestrians, and cyclists. Emergency...More
Thank you for attending the Starting Strong workshops. We hope you find them useful and that they give you tools and confidence to support your child and your family.
This survey allows us to gather some feedback from the sessions, what worked well, what not so well and any other comments you would like to add. We really do appreciate your time and feedback.
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What is a School Street?
The purpose of a school street is to tackle the congestion at the school gates and improve the air quality for travel to school.
When the school street is operational at the start and end of the school day, the road becomes a temporary walking and cycling zone.
Access would still be maintained for residents, businesses, pedestrians, and cyclists and valid blue badge holders. Emergency vehicles would also always have access.
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By temporarily...More
A School Street is a timed road closure where motorised traffic is restricted on one or more roads outside of a school at school drop-off and pick-up times. The aim is to create an appealing, child-friendly environment, where road space is reallocated to make it easier for people to walk and cycle to school and air quality is improved.
Currently in Greater Manchester, over a third of primary schools are affected by poor air quality, contributed to significantly by motor vehicle...More
Thank you for attending the Basic sleep training provided by the Together Trust. In order to make sure the training is targeted and pitched at the right level, we would really appreciate your feedback. The evaluation is designed to capture your thoughts on your experience of the training programme and what you have learnt from the training.
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Trafford`s Early help team are interested in understanding the support in place for children and families struggling with sleep issues. The Together Trust is commissioned to delivered bespoke sleep support to children and their families.
We are seeking input from professionals who refer into Sleep tight to understand local trends and the effectiveness of the current offer.
The survey should take no more than 5 minutes of your time to complete. Your feedback is appreciated.
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As a team, we really want the SENCO forum to be useful to you and accessible for you. We would also like to find out if there are barriers to your attendance.
In addition, for those who attended the March SENCO forum, we would like to get your feedback about what was helpful and any suggestions that you have for improvements.
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Thank you for attending the RPC training. In order to make sure the training is targeted and pitched at the right level, we would really appreciate your feedback. The evaluation is designed to capture your thoughts on your experience of the training programme and what you have learnt from the training.
In order to ensure the effectiveness of the training when you are working with families, we will be carrying out an additional evaluation in 3 – 6 months time. This...More
Trafford Council is seeking to improve and sustain the quality of Park Tennis Courts across the borough by accessing funding from the Lawn Tennis Association (LTA). To enable this much needed investment the council is seeking to install access gates and introduce charge for use . The revenue generated will be used to maintain the courts, so they remain in use for future generations. Alongside this the council is seeking to work with a tennis provider to encourage more use of parks courts...More
The independent review of children’s social care has recommended that the g overnment should make care experience a protected characteristic
This means it will be against the law to discriminate against someone because they are or have been cared for and will mean that those with care experience will have the same protections from discrimination as the other nine protected characteristics; age, disability, gender reassignment, marriage and civil partnership, pregnancy...More
Trafford Council's Public Health team is looking to work with housing associations to reduce smoking prevlance in their residents.
Here's why:
The smoking rate among social housing residents is one of the highest in England.
Higher rates of smoking mean people living in social housing are disproportionately affected by the substantial health and economic inequalities caused by smoking.
The gap in smoking rates between people living in social housing and people living in...More
The purpose of this questionnaire is to gather research from those that are pregnant, new parents and experienced parents about their experiences with NHS Healthy Start, we hope to hear about how people have experienced the process of obtaining vouchers, navigating the system and the amount that is allocated etc. This information will be used to inform Trafford Council’s response to National government on this issue.
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Trafford Council have developed 3 priorities in it's corporate plan to improve the lives and wellbeing of residents. The priorities are:
1) Reducing Health Inequalities
2) Supporting People Out Of Poverty and
3) Addressing Our Climate Crisis
Trafford Council have therefore developed a draft Walking, Wheeling and Cycling strategy (see bottom of this page for a link to the draft strategy) with the vision that,
"Trafford is a green and connected borough where more people...More
Trafford Council's Scrutiny Committee have created a Task and Finish Group to look at the impact events held at Old Trafford Football Stadium have on the local community. As part of their work the group would like to engage with the communities surrounding Old Trafford Football Stadium affected by the large influx of people whenever a football game, concert, or other event are held at the venue. The aim of the group is to understand the current situation and through collaboration with local...More
Property and Estates is essential to all aspects of the Council's operations. Our communities rely on the services provided by our portfolio of offices, depots, libraries, care homes, and other Council assets. Our commercial property portfolio generates revenue that helps the Council deliver on its priorities. Our future development portfolio represents an opportunity to provide high-quality housing for our residents while reducing our environmental impact.
Council budgets have never...More
Trafford Council Early Help Commissioning team have identified some underspend within their budget which they would like to use to help increase capacity for the short breaks offer. This funding is a one-off payment, so however it is used will only be for a short term. However, we would like to get your views as the families who do, or are eligible to, access the current short break offer to ensure we are spending the money in the most effective way for you.
Currently Trafford...More
Welcome to the 2022 Trafford Council housing needs survey.
A letter inviting people to take part has been sent to a sample of residents across Trafford but anyone living in the borough can fill in the survey.
This study is being carried out by arc4 Ltd on behalf of Trafford Council
This research will find out the need for different types and sizes of homes needed to buy and rent in Trafford for all residents.
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One of Trafford Council's corporate priorities is to tackle the climate emergency. Using less energy and reducing consumption of electricity used by street lighting, will support this priority.
Due to current volatile energy markets, the costs associated with street lighting, has more than doubled in the last 12 months alone.
Therefore, proposals to alter the timings and illumination levels are being explored.
The Council is looking to manage its energy consumption...More
Background
From 31 May 2022, local highway authorities in England outside of London have been able to apply to the Secretary of State for new powers to enforce 'moving traffic offences'. See signage that this applies to
Moving traffic offences include:
Entering yellow box junctions when the exit is not clear
Driving through a 'No Entry' sign
Turning left or right when instructed not to do so ...More
During the early stages of the Covid-19 pandemic in 2020 and as part of the Emergency Active Travel Funding, Trafford Council installed temporary cycle lanes on the A56 and Edge Lane. This was to facilitate non-motorised transport choices for shorter journeys, such as cycling and walking.
As Covid-19 restrictions have reduced, the Council is seeking to remove the temporary cycle lanes and consult the public on an interim solution for the route that best meets the needs and...More
Trafford Start Well Public Health & Commissioning Team is seeking to establish a Trafford children’s networking forum. This will bring together service providers and VCFSE organisations across the borough to improve the health and wellbeing of our children, young people and families.
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Earlier in 2022, Trafford conducted a Reducing Parental Conflict (RPC) needs assessment to help us to better understand local trends such as frequency and intensity of parental conflict, the prevalence of parental conflict within certain populations such as low income families, teenage parents, lone parents etc. so that we could effectively commission services to address these needs.
To do this, we sought input from partners and frontline practitioners to identify...More
Trafford Moving is the borough’s physical activity and sport strategy. We would like to support more people in Trafford to be physically active. To do this we need to understand a bit more about you and your neighbourhood. The information gathered from this consultation will be used to develop a series of action plans designed to enable people in Trafford to move more every day and improve their health through activity.
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Want to help volunteer to support vulnerable residents this winter?
The Council will be providing over 3,000 Winter Wellbeing packs to some of our most vulnerable residents during the winter period.
To support this and after the amazing staff response we received last year, we are asking all our staff if they would be interested in volunteering some of their time again to help pack these at the town hall and/or to deliver them to residents across the borough.
If you can help,...More
Thank you for attending today’s session. In order to make these sessions as useful as possible, please can you spare 5 minutes to complete the questionnaire. All of your responses will remain confidential.
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