Lib Dem Borough Leader and County Councillor David Kendall has welcomed the news that Essex County Council are going to devolve the resource allocation for universal youth work in Brentwood to Brentwood Borough Council as a pilot project for six months.
The Liberal Democrats have announced a major funding commitment that would boost education in Surrey. Nick Clegg has given a Liberal Democrat manifesto commitment for a Pupil Premium that would mean investing around £ 25m of extra cash in Surrey schools, raising the funding for disadvantaged pupils to private school levels.
Paul Holmes, MP for Chesterfield is supporting a nationwide 'Scamnesty' campaign by the Office of Fair Trading (OFT) and local authority Trading Standards Services, which aims to help end the scourge of mass marketed scams mailings in the UK. The campaign is coming to Chesterfield this February.
Gedling LibDems have chosen Julia Bateman as their Prospective Parliamentary Candidate.
Local Liberal Democrat parliamentary candidates Nigel Quinton for Hitchin & Harpenden and Sandy Walkington for St Albans joined senior Liberal Democrat MPs at Westminster yesterday for a private meeting with FCC top management, Mary Grant and Neal Lawson.
Liberal Democrat Councillor David Foster, Executive Member for Adult Social Care has joined with colleagues in other authorities asking for an urgent review of the Bill going through parliament at the moment giving free Home Care to those with most critical needs.
