The Institute of Fiscal Studies has released a report on Covid-19 and Council funding called: ‘COVID-19 and English council funding: how are budgets being hit in 2020–21?’ The report looks at loss of income and the use of reserves in a range of local authorities. There are caveats but the IFS conclude that this is …
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Lewisham Public Health Publish Covid-19 Plan
Lewisham Council has published a COVID-19 Outbreak Prevention and Control Plan setting out how the Council will work with partners, including Public Health England, to prevent, identify and manage any COVID-19 outbreaks in Lewisham and ensure that residents and communities are protected. Local authorities have been responsible for improving the health of their local population …
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End Benefit Sanctions Now Say Disability Campaigners
Cllr Alan Hall has joined campaigners, disabled activists, charities and trade unionists calling for an end to benefit sanctions now. Inclusion London who support over 70 Deaf and Disabled Organisations working across every London borough lead the campaign. They say: “We are calling for sanctions to be abolished for Deaf and Disabled people as a …
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Hither Green Signals a Better Journey through Lewisham
Network Rail report that there has been a 30% reduction in the number of signalling, track and other infrastructure faults in the wider Lewisham area. However, because the area is so busy and congested, with more than half of all Southeastern trains travelling through it, even minor incidents can have a major knock on impact. …
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Man Arrested in Bellingham Road with Two Shot Guns
Metropolitan police officers arrested a man on Bellingham Road, Catford after the stolen vehicle he was in ran a red light, collided with a cyclist and a car, and was found with two sawn-off shotguns inside it. At approximately 4.25pm on Thursday, 23 July, officers from the Met’s Roads Transport and Policing Command were driving …
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Clean schools and let’s get them safer for September Say UNISON
Cllr Alan Hall has joined campaigners and trade unionists calling on better terms and conditions in schools particularly for cleaners and catering staff. Now is the time to review pay and conditions and get schools safer for September’s new academic year. In London schools should pay the London Living Wage. He says: “Clean schools are …
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NHS Song Of Hope Released in Lewisham
The Lewisham NHS Choir’s ‘I can see clearly now’ is a song of hope. They are known for their emotional rendition of classic songs. The video is a cover of Johnny Nash’s ‘I Can See Clearly Now’. As this was recorded during lockdown the doctors, hospital workers, nurses and community health staff that make up …
Bells Toll for London’s Housing Crisis – Grenfell Three Years On
On 14 June 2020, the third anniversary since 72 people died as a result the Grenfell Tower Fire church bells rang out across London. The fire devastated an entire community in North Kensington. The impact of building deregulation is under intense scrutiny today. The Fire Brigade Union has said: “This agenda was driven by the …
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‘You’re Not Alone’ with the Lewisham NHS Choir
A new video collaboration with the Lewisham & Greenwich NHS Choir featuring Alexandra Burke and the London Concert Orchestra has just been released. This is a cover of the 1997 No 1 chart hit classic ‘You’re Not Alone’ originally performed by the trio Olive which won an Ivor Novello Award in the ‘Best Dance Music’ …
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Hands Off Our NHS
Councillor Alan Hall has written directly to the Secretary of State for International Trade and President of the Board, Liz Truss calling for the Government to protect the NHS in any trade deal with the US. “While our NHS staff are fighting coronavirus, please will you thank them by protecting our NHS from trade deals? …