In future people who get Direct Payments to pay for social care could be issued with a handy pre-payment card offering more control over their money. This will be the first such scheme in London if a trial next year is successful. Most adults who receive Direct Payments have the money paid into their bank [...]
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Coalition Cuts to Brent Council: Performance Reward Grants
Further to my post of Central Government Grant reductions here, I mentioned that I would provide greater detail to reduction in Central Government Grants allocated to Brent Council. In particular, this blogpost will focus on reductions to the Performance Reward Grant. I cannot stress the importance of Central Government Grants to Local Authorities. Brent Council [...]
27% – £98 Million Cuts to Brent Council
Before the elections, we did know that we would have to make £50 million cuts. After the elections, this figure grew in the region of £63 million. The June 2010 Emergency Budget and the Comprehensive Spending Review as well as yesterday’s announcement from Eric Pickles has pushed this up to a massive £98 million plus. [...]
Coalition Government Cuts to Brent Council: Central Government Grant Reductions
Leaving the Comprehensive Spending Review aside for one moment, in the summer of 2010, the Coalition Government reduced certain grants to Brent Council which has directly impacted upon residents. Most of these cuts attacked the vulnerable in society. Around £6 million was cut from the council budget at this stage in the financial cycle with [...]
Not much changes in politics
Great poster from April 1985 (before I was even born!). Fast forward twenty five years and we face the same situation, not only in Brent but across the country on a national scale.
Nick Clegg scoops to even lower lows
Political Scrapbook has highlighted information from the Electoral Commission which reveals that Nick Clegg spent £9,000 on hiring people to be in audiences for ‘public’ Town Hall meetings. More here: LINK
Brent Central MP Sarah Teather votes for tuition fee cap rise
For the first time in history a MP representing Dudden Hill Ward has voted to increase tuition fees. Brent Central MP Sarah Teather has voted for the unprecedented hike in tuition fees and has broken this personal pledge she made to the National Union of Students. When fees were first introduced through the Teaching and [...]
Dear Sarah Teather, Do the right thing
Tonight is the vote where a whole generation will learn the fate of their future. Whether they will be consigned with levels of unamiginable debt. Despite daily protests outside her Willesden Green office, we are yet to hear a word from our Brent Central MP on how she will vote tonight. The Coalition Government Minister [...]
Brent anger over fees
Brent Labour received an overwhelming positive response this weekend as we were joined by Labour Students and Labour Young Labour on the streets of Brent with our petition calling for our local MP to vote against the proposed rise in tuition fees and not to scrap EMA, which would affect 4,000 children in Brent. We [...]
Brent Labour’s petition against the increase in Tuition fees and the scrapping of the EMA
Brent Labour has a petition running against the increase in Tuition fees and the scrapping of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA). EMA currently helps around 4,000 young people in Brent. The petition calls on Brent Central MP Sarah Teather to honour her personal pledge to voters, and vote against any increase in tuition fees. It also [...]
