DETAILS have been published on how £9.4m Government cash will be spent by a Teesside council.

Hartlepool Borough Council has received the Neighbourhood Renewal Funding as one of the UK's 88 most deprived areas.

The borough was originally granted £6.3m but the council has been given another £3.1m to reduce unemployment and alleviate poverty.

In a report, officers have recommended that Councillor Moss Boddy, who is responsible for Hartlepool's regeneration, endorses their programme which they have been drawing up since April last year.

The money is to be spent over the next two years, starting from the beginning of the next financial year, and will boost some existing projects.

The report explains that Hartlepool has received the extra money because it has one of the lowest employment rates and highest rates of domestic burglary.

Of the extra money, 40 per cent is to be spent on attempting to bring more jobs to the area, 35 per cent to reducing burglary and 25 per cent on increasing male life expectancy.

Overall, £965,000 is to be given to schools each year, most of it on employing more teachers for primary schools.

A further £300,000 a year will be spent on extending the community wardens programme and other money will go to schemes preventing criminals from re-offending.

A total of £595,000 per year will be spent on tackling unemployment through projects to teach unemployed people new skills and to encourage and extend small businesses.

Health projects will receive £325,000 to be spent on promoting healthier lifestyles among schoolchildren, rehabilitating drug addicts and schemes to raise health awareness.

Other money will go to improving housing and neighbourhood security, including installing more alley gates to deter burglars.

In the report, the council's director of regeneration and planning, Peter Scott, said the idea was to improve mainstream services to benefit the most deprived areas.

He said: "The Neighbourhood Renewal Fund is intended as time-limited funding to kick-start more effective long term targeting of mainstream resources to tackle deprivation."

Coun Boddy will discuss the report with other councillors at a regeneration and economy committee meeting, which will be held in Room C of Hartlepool Civic Centre at 4pm next Monday.