"Based on experience as a pharmacist working in primary care in Newcastle, I can assure local people that we receive rapid communication from Public Health England, which in turn enables health care professionals to give the best advice to the public", says Cllr Ali Avaei.
This Sunday (8th March) is International Women's Day and to celebrate the Women of Bedford group are holding a Tribute to Women Performance Showcase at the Place Theatre.
At an Islington Liberal Democrats Proportional Representation event in February 2020, Keith Sharp gave a (slightly personalised) account of the liberal fight for equal, proportional voting: the wins, the losses, the lessons and the current opportunities.
There are some key challenges confronting this council, and indeed all councils, Liberal Democrats Cllr Greg Stone has told Newcastle City Council ." I think it would be unreasonable to expect the Council's Budget for 2020/21 to be able to solve these overnight. But I have heard talk from this Labour administration for some years now about the need to ensure a more sustainable local government funding model - which in practice means expecting other parts of the country to subsidise us. I have heard talk from the administration for some years now on the need to tackle the funding crisis in adult social care, but we have yet to see major progress on the local integration of health and social care. This year we are seeing the administration having to relinquish its claim to be protecting the most vulnerable by admitting it is going to have to make cuts to adult social care teams.
"Council faces some of the most difficult decisions it has ever faced in balancing the budget." The most recent Borough Council Auditors Report was discussed at December's Council meeting. It warns that the example of Councils such as Northamptonshire [which went bankrupt] is "…the importance of taking early action…before the position becomes unmanageable."
On 3 March 2020, Lib Dem MP Daisy Cooper put forward legislation which would ensure female offenders are given community...