Tag: City Council

• Inflation could cause the collapse of Peterborough Council!

  

  Councils like Peterborough, are making rapid recalculations and looking at more cuts as they battle budgetary black holes exacerbated by the cost-of-living crisis.

  Darren Fower

  June 5, 2022

  Austerity by stealth, Children with special needs, City Council, Council Finances, Inflation, Office for National Statistics

• The Manor isn’t closing, says PCC! So why are parents panicking?

  

  Q: What made you think we’re closing this service? A: Coz you said you were!

  March 1, 2018

  City Council, Health

  Cabinet Member for Children’s Services, City Council, Councillor Sam Smith, Mirdyea Shahzadi, Nazreen Bibi, Peterborough Telegraph

• 373 children in care in Peterborough!

  As detailed in the City Council‘s latest Budget Proposal Plans, the local authority are currently supporting 373 children in care, in 2011/12 this number was 340, an increase of 9.7%. “The cost per week for a child in care ranges between £350 and £3,500, dependant on whether they are being cared for in-house by a foster carer or […]

  Darren Fower

  November 18, 2017

  City Council, Local News

  Budget Proposal Plans, child poverty, children in care, City Council, Dickensian, foster carer, residential placement, Tory austerity

• Tories in turmoil at the Town Hall……

  

  The Conservatives have been “running” the City Council since the year 2000, and as someone who has been a councillor since 2004, I can assure you I’ve never seen them in such a mess! It seems quite clear to me, given that there is no more silverware in the cupboard for them to sell, that they’ve […]

  Darren Fower

  November 12, 2017

  City Council

  Amey, bulky waste collections, City Council, Cllr David Sanders, Conservatives, Council Tax, Featured, John Harrison, Rhubarb Bridge, Tories, Tory councillor, Town Hall

• New school at Paston Reserve/Manor Drive is just a “buffer”

  What’s this to do with? At a meeting of the Council’s Children and Education Scrutiny Committee, on which I sit on as the Lib Dem rep, we were told that, the new secondary schools at Hampton Gardens and Paston Reserve “…would provide a buffer to the additional capacity required in the City.” The report also […]

  Darren Fower

  May 17, 2017

  Education, Local News

  bretton woods, Children and Education Scrutiny Committee, City Council, Hampton Gardens, John Mansfield, Lib Dem rep, Manor Drive, Norwood School, Paston Reserve, school places in Peterborough

• #Werrington Children’s Centre de-designated after costing Council £87,362 a year! @Welbourneschool

  At the latest meeting of the City Council’s Creating Opportunities and Tackling Inequalities Scrutiny Committee, Liberal Democrat, city councillor, Darren Fower, was told Werrington Children’s Centre, would now come under the control of Welbourne School. The move, we understand must be finalised before September 2014. Council Officers said that at present the cost of services […]

  Darren Fower

  July 18, 2014

  Education

  Buildings maintenance, Children’s Centre, City Council, city councillor, Cllr Darren Fower, Council Officers, Creating Opportunities and Tackling Inequalities Scrutiny Committee, Cuts in services, Darren Fower, Education in Peterborough, Goodwin Walk, health services, LIB DEM, Liberal Democrat, local authority, Peterborough, Peterborough City Council, Peterborough Learning Partnership, Pre-school provider, Primary Schools, Pupil Premium, Reception class, Rental income, School places, Scrutiny Committee, Transition arrangements, Welbourne School, Werrington