Scrutiny Residents Survey

What matters most to you in Hackney? The borough’s Scrutiny Councillors need to know your views. From prevention of crime, to traffic, to health and education, we want to know what your top priorities are, as part of an annual survey to shape the next year’s Scrutiny agenda.

Scrutiny Commissions are made up of Councillors who work across party political lines to investigate issues of local concern, and they need to know what Hackney residents want to see reviewed from June this year.

The Commissions need to know which of the following issues Hackney residents and businesses consider most important:

• Employment and the local economy
• Education services for children and adults
• Services for Older People
• Affordable housing and quality social homes
• The local health service
• Making the borough safer and addressing fear of crime
• Keeping Hackney clean
• Cultural, sports and leisure facilities
• Pride in the community
• Public transport and traffic congestion

Good Scrutiny plays an important role in the development of better policies and improving performance, and can hold the Council and outside agencies to account, including police and the health service.

Last year’s residents survey put prevention of crime at the top of the list, and so the Children and Young People’s Scrutiny Commission investigated ways of preventing young people from getting involved in crime.

Please complete this short survey http://www.surveymonkey.com/s.aspx?sm=imv1CJrCGg2T5eP_2bKHUbfA_3d_3d to let us know what you think the top issues for review should be in 2009. We value your feedback and will use your views to inform our wider programme.

All responses are anonymous and confidential.

More information

For more information please email scrutiny@... or contact 020 8356 3341.