DC LUNDBY
www.lundby.goteborg.se
Lundby is the district of the future. In 2002 a total of 784 people chose to move here, which makes Lundby the fastest growing district in the whole of Göteborg. The areas in Norra Älvstranden that are being developed to provide new housing, enterprise and education facilities account for a large part of this expansion. Over 500 new job opportunities were created there during the year.
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| The first figure is for the district and the second for Göteborg in total during 2002, unless otherwise stated. | ||
| No. of inhabitants | 33,489 | (474,877) |
| Percentage of children 0–15 | 12.7 | (17.3) |
| Percentage of pensioners over 65 | 16.5 | (14.7) |
| Average income, KSEK (over 16) 2000 | 163.9 | (174.6) |
| Percentage of job applicants 18–64 | 4.8 | (4.1) |
| Percentage of people with higher education (20–64) 2001 | 31.1 | (38.9) |
| Percentage of gainfully employed (20–64) 2000 | 68.7 | (69.5) |
| Percentage on social security benefits | 8.8 | (9.5) |
| Social security benefits paid, SEK per inhabitant* | 2,118 | (2,128) |
| * Excl. introduction remuneration. | ||
Lundby’s big challenge for the future is to meet the new demands that arise as the district grows. A generation shift is taking place, and as the population increases so does the pressure on schools, pre-schools and other social services. Lundby has not been able to offer all children a place in pre-school within four months, despite the creation of additional places. This is partly due to the fact that demand has increased by six per cent in the last few years, and because the length of time children spend in pre-school has steadily increased and it has been difficult to recruit qualified staff. With effect from 2003 all four and five-year-old children must be offered places in public pre-schools, either in special groups or in existing departments.
In order to fulfil the legal requirement to restrict the waiting list to a maximum of four months we must provide more pre-school places. A new building in Herrgårdsparken will add a further 80 new places at the start of 2004. A new school is also being built in Herrgårdsparken and we intend to complete extension work at Rambergsskolan, which will take pupils from pre-school class up to year nine.
In August the Lundby Resource Team was set up to help children who require special support during development. The Resource Team collaborates with other staff in order to provide support at the earliest possible stage.
Around 2,200 pupils are following the lifelong learning programme in Lundby’s schools. The schools are well attended and pupil numbers are approaching the maximum in most cases. All schools have implemented, or plan to implement, organizational changes to adapt to modern teaching methods and approaches. Staff teams and staff units have become increasingly common. We are also fulfilling the commitment to introduce IT in teaching, and are giving all pupils access to the Knowledge Network.
Lundby has around 33,000 inhabitants. Of this population, one in five is 65 years or older, which puts considerable pressure on care of the elderly services. During 2002 an average of 503 places in homes for the elderly were occupied, and 617 people received help in their own homes. Fyrväpplingen home for the elderly was extended to provide 54 new places and these were mostly taken up by people from Åsbacka home for the elderly in Backa.
Lundby’s nursing studies department is working on strategies to improve and develop the home help service so that it is perceived as a reassuring alternative for elderly people. The goal is that people who need nursing care should primarily receive this care in their own home, without having to move into a home for the elderly. During the course of the year we have also reduced the total number of places occupied in homes for the elderly and instead increased home help resources. The goal for 2003 is to reduce the number of rented places in homes for the elderly to 480.
The home rehabilitation service provided by home nursing care was extended and waiting times were shortened. The maximum waiting time is now two weeks, and in acute cases there is no waiting time at all.
In cooperation with primary care services and the Östra hospital we have also been working to improve the care chain. A nurse and a development officer will work together from an early stage to make plans for patients from Hisingen to return home. We have also set up a common housing team for Hisingen, which has the task of prioritising places in homes for the elderly.
The number of unemployed people in Lundby fell in 2002, which meant that social benefit costs also fell by SEK 10m.
The Delta project has been in progress on Hisingen for several years now. This involves extended cooperation between the City, primary care services, the regional social insurance office and the Public Employment Service to enable them to use their common resources more effectively. This collaboration has been shown to benefit both the residents of Hisingen and society as a whole. The Health Counter has continued to develop, and a popular initiative taken in 2002 was to open a sewing school. The health promotion projects State of Health and Kvillestad will be merged under the Public Health Team in 2003 in an effort to improve the situation in the Brämaregården and Kvillebäcken areas, as well as making better use of residents’ own abilities.
In the housing market the situation became increasingly difficult for people at risk. Last year more people than ever received housing support assistance, and the waiting lists for Altbo alternative housing grew longer. It has also been difficult to find adequate housing for some people with disabilities.
Lundby is a district with a distinct ecological profile. Two environment festivals were organized in 2002: one at Kyrkbytorget and one at Bjurslätt square. A Nature & Environment folder was distributed to 800 of Lundby’s middle school pupils, while Kärrdalsskolan received the City of Göteborg’s environmental diploma and Bräckeskolan began working towards qualification for an environmental diploma. The Vision Lundby project run by the Traffic and Public Transport Authority has given residents of Lundby access to five car sharing pools.
The district committee is continuing to give residents of Lundby good insight into its activities. Open committee meetings, political surgeries and a regularly updated website, as well as several user councils and local boards, all give residents an opportunity to get involved. The citizens’ office serves as a link between residents and the City’s civil servants and politicians. It provides a direct point of contact where residents of Lundby can seek assistance and services, or find out who they should get in touch with.