Tories taking food off the plates of Gillingham school children
Thousands of children in Gillingham & Rainham could lose their right to a free school meal under Conservative plans to review the scheme.
3 Oct 2015
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Cuts to Medway public health budget totalling over £1 million nation announced
The Government announced cuts to the public health budget totalling £200 million nationally For Medway this could mean a cut to its public health budget of around £1,042,000. Having a keen interest in health issues, with a 21 year career in pharmacy and being a volunteer medic, and a Governor for the South East Coast Ambulance Service, Paul Chaplin was concerned when he heard about these cuts Question to Council At the last full council meeting on 12th August 2015, Paul asked a public question to the portfolio holder for Adult Services, Cllr David Brake. The question was as follows: ''The Government announced cuts of £200 million to the public health budget for local authorities. How much has Medway's budget been cut, and what services will be stopped or reduced to meet this deficit?'' Paul has received a response from Cllr Brake as follows: On the 4th of June the Chancellor of the Exchequer announced a year in cut to the public health grant given to local authorities totalling £200m nationally. On 31st Jul
6 Sep 2015
Welfare cuts to hit thousands of Medway residents
The Conservative government have announced a range of cuts to working age benefits that will affect local residents.
5 Sep 2015
Forresters Hall planning application
There has been a furious response from the Medway Labour Group to Tony Jeacock's letter in the Medway Messenger (24/07/15) regarding the Planning Committee's stance on the redevelopment of the Forrester's Hall site in Gillingham South. They feel it is an unjust personal attack on Labour (although the Conservative-run council was also criticised in the piece), and that events did not play out in the way they are described.
CS
28 Jul 2015
Labour councillors let down Gillingham South residents
Having suffered years of a Conservative-led Local Council Authority not listening to concerns of local residents ("Consultations are to advise residents of what we have already decided, not to discuss with them to reach a mutually acceptable arrangement"), Gillingham South residents now have a batch of newly elected Labour councillors who promised the earth during the Local Election campaign and then immediately let their residents down.
TJ
26 Jul 2015
Conservatives stop housing support for young people
From April 2017 the Budget will remove the automatic entitlement to housing support for new claims in Universal Credit from 18-21 year olds who are out of work.
15 Jul 2015