At a glance – live consultations, surveys and updates
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Engagement strategy – closes Wednesday 4 February
- Bin lorry naming competition – closes Friday 30 January
- Kinship care support – closes Tuesday 3 February
- Ofsted SEND inspection – closes Tuesday 20 January
- Loddon Valley Garden Village – closes Friday 16 January
- You said, we did – Earley and Woodley speed limits
- Other chances to have your say – NHS App
 Help guide our new engagement strategy
We’re committed to putting residents at the heart of our decision-making so that, together, we can create a thriving Wokingham Borough.
An important part of that is creating a strategy that sets out how we’ll work with you to shape decisions.
We’d like you to tell us what you think of a draft of that strategy, which we've now completed. We consulted with you on its guiding principles in October and November and more than 1,150 of you took part online and in-person.
We have two ways for you to have your say: you can take our short survey or comment on the draft strategy in full. Let us know what you think until 4 February.
 Name new bin lorries and street cleaning machines
Give us your idea for names for new vehicles keeping our borough clean and tidy each day.
Winning names will appear on the front of new bin lorries and street cleaning machines for everyone to spot.
All borough residents can take part, but we’d really like school children to get involved and come up with something fun for our fleet. Think Bin Diesel or Sweep Caroline!
Winners will receive prizes from our new waste collection contractor Biffa, while if you win and go to school, your school will get a visit from the newly named vehicle. Let us know your ideas for names until Friday 30 January.
 Kinship families – help shape local support
Are you a kinship carer, a child in kinship care or a professional working with kinship families? If you are, we’d like your help to shape support available in the borough.
Kinship care is when a child lives with someone they know, like a relative or close family friend, because their parents can't currently care for them.
We’re creating a guide so that families in that situation in the borough can see exactly what support is available to them. Your views will also help us understand how we could improve support available.
Tell us what you think until 3 February.
 Ofsted seeking your views on SEND
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission would like to hear from you, if you have experience of arrangements for children and young people with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in the borough.
You can give them your views until 9am on Tuesday 20 January – as either a parent or carer of someone with SEND aged 0-25, a SEND child or young person, or as a practitioner providing support.
Ofsted and the Care Quality Commission will use your views, alongside what their inspection finds, to understand what is happening locally. You don’t have to give your name when you take the survey.
It’s your last chance to leave your comments on plans to build more than three thousand new homes in the proposed Loddon Valley Garden Village.
The planning applications submitted by the University of Reading and Gleeson Land could see up to 3,230 houses built in the area west of Wokingham Town. The proposals include plans for new schools, community facilities, new roads and more. Leave your comments until this Friday 16 January.
 You said, we did – Earley and Woodley speed limits
New 20mph speed limits will be introduced along roads in Earley and Woodley, as part of a new walking and cycling route.
Work on the new lane linking Woodley town centre and Palmer Park, Reading is set to start on Monday 26 January.
We consulted with you in October on introducing 20mph speed limits in Earley on part of Culver Lane and all of Palmerstone Road and in Woodley on part of Woodlands Avenue.
- 69% of you said that you objected to the speed limits in Woodley
- 60% of you said that you objected to the speed limits in Earley
Although there was strong objection to the proposed reductions, we think the Department for Transport recommendation, for 20mph speed limits on mixed-use routes to enhance road safety, outweighs them.
Other chances to have your say
Have you ever used the NHS App? Or have you never used an app before? Healthwatch Wokingham Borough would like to hear from you.
The NHS aims to improve access to healthcare through technology and Healthwatch Wokingham Borough wants to understand how local residents use the NHS App, alongside any barriers they face, so that it can share that knowledge with the NHS.
What you might have missed
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If you need help to take part in a consultation or would like to request a paper copy of a survey, call our customer service team on 0118 974 6000, or visit one of our libraries.
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