Building Libraries, Building communities

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Building Libraries, Building communities Trevor
Brown, Head of Library Services
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The Thames Gateway
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The Prize

• Our borough lies at the heart of the Thames
  Gateway the largest growth area in Europe
• Over the next 15 years, Barking and Dagenham will
  benefit from thousands of new homes, new jobs and
  new transport links to the rest of London

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Borough overview the challenges

• Literacy levels / Numeracy
• Teenage pregnancies
• Deprivation
• NEETs

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The NeedsCommunity Priorities

• Promoting equal opportunities and celebrating
  diversity
• Making Barking and Dagenham cleaner, greener and
  safer
• Better education and learning for all
• Developing rights and responsibilities with the
  local community
• Improving health, housing and social care
• Raising general pride in the Borough
• Regenerating the local economy

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New jobs and businesses

• Our ambition local people fully equipped to
  compete for better paid, highly skilled jobs in a
  vibrant and diverse local economy.
• supporting high tech manufacturing
• diversifying the local economy
• improving skills
• helping socially excluded groups back into work
  

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Barking Lifelong Centre

• Will help equip local people for better paid and
  more fulfilling jobs
• Will provide first class education, job advice,
  training and support for public sector workers
  and those who want a career in the public
  services particularly health, social care and
  education
• Will offer, with our partners, a full range of
  education, library, IT, training and employment
  services on one site

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The place
Ground Floor plan
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First floor plan
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The cost

• Overall scheme costs c.8m.
• 3m. ODPM sustainable communities
• 1.5m. UeL capitalized rent
• 1.5m. Barking College (F.E.) capitalized rent
• 1.2m. Development gain
• 800k. Barking and Dagenham contribution

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Is it real? Yes
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Delivering the new brandProfessor Andrew
McDonaldDirector of Library and Learning
Services Head of Lifelong Learning Centres
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partnership

• LB of Barking Dagenham
• University of East London
• Adult College
• Barking FE College
• local lifelong learning and regeneration

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joined-up learning centre

• curriculum offer
• learner support
• employment service
• and
• Boroughs Customer First
  course information, advice and
  guidance crèche
  
  coffee shop

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curriculum offer
early years and childcare sport, hospitality and
tourism health and social care
school support services business/public
sector administration and more?
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professional/ graduate practitioners
4/5/6 3/4 2/3 1/E
senior support workers
support workers
entry level
work placement tasters
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learner support
integrated public/academic library with access
for everyone seamless services extended
hours joint collections electronic
resources combined library management
system online catalogue cutting-edge technology
(RFID, self-services) joint staff training and
development
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thank you