COUNCIL chiefs yesterday pledged to continue focusing the delivery of limited resources on education, social care and recycling.

Torfaen council set out 10 priorities for 15/16 including the top objective to raise standards of educational attainment.

Torfaen Local Education Authority remains in special measures, a council meeting heard on Tuesday.

Other priorities are improving access to social care services and the delivering of efficient and effective waste and recycling services.

Education priorities also include ensuring learning for all young people is inclusive and accessible, transforming educational provision for 14-19 year olds, ensuring children are safe, and protecting vulnerable children.

Social care priorities include ensuring that people’s needs are assessed in a timely manner and that the care provided is appropriate, promoting independence and improving access to social care services.

Council chief executive Alison Ward said: “We have ever diminishing resources and we have to be realistic about what we can achieve with the resources that we have.

“It’s about what we focus on most acutely to try to deliver benefit for our people.”Councillors backed the “improvement objectives” at a full council meeting at Pontypool Civic Centre on Tuesday.