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Category Archives: Youth Issues
Social Inequality is being ignored
The following is the text of my column in todays Argus newspaper: Last Wednesday whilst the Government was in the middle of debating the Queens speech and also fighting off a valiant attempt by most opposition politicians to increase public sector … Continue reading
Posted in Economics, Education, Housing, Parliament and Democracy, Youth Issues
Tagged Child Poverty, Social mobility
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The darkest cloud has a silver lining
Last Thursday an 80 page report entitled ‘An Abuse of Faith’ was published focusing on the failings of the Church of England in the case of Peter Ball, one time Bishop of Lewes. The Author, Dame Moira Gibb was Director … Continue reading
Posted in Church Teaching, Policing, Youth Issues
Tagged George Carey, Justin Welby, Peter Ball, Sussex Police
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The need for careful analysis
Its easy to read speeches as one piece of text with an overall message and miss some of the finer details. This would be a mistake in the case of the Queens speech. As I wrote yesterday every word was … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Parliament and Democracy, Youth Issues
Tagged Education, Queens Speech, Schools, Skills
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Lets put children first for once
The recent news that the UK has dramatically fallen in the world rankings from 11th to 156th in an independent analysis of childrens rights is something that should act as a severe wake up call to whichever party or coalition … Continue reading
Lessons from Bognor and Littlehampton
I spent several hours yesterday knocking on doors in the Wick area of Littlehampton. It is the home neighbourhood of Paul Sanderson who is standing as the Independent candidate in the General Election on 8th June. Paul is new to … Continue reading
The scaredy cats of Brighton & Hove
Later today a great opportunity has been created by two charities I have connections with. They wanted to try to change the nature of the political discourse taking place in our city by inviting a candidate from each party and … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Housing, Parliament and Democracy, Youth Issues
Tagged Hustings, One Church, YMCA Downslink Group
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Manifesto season is upon us
As part of the General Election 2017 campaign we are now in the manifesto season which I have written about in Todays Argus newspaper. This season ensures that those of us who are interested in such matters can spend many … Continue reading
Posted in Brighton & Hove, Parliament and Democracy, Youth Issues
Tagged NHA, Stewart Jackson MP, WEP, YMCA Downslink Group
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A nation in desperate need of change
This morning there are reports from various sources of how many vacancies or impending vacancies exist in the NHS and our state run educational service. The high levels of vacancies for Nurses estimated at some 40,000 or 11% of the … Continue reading
A record high – we should be ashamed of
The latest Government statistic shows that on at least one measure this Government has completely failed one vulnerable group in our society. Tragically they are people whose predicament is of little concern to the current Government and unlike the nurses … Continue reading
A Government asleep at the wheel
At the beginning of April I posted a blog about the early indications that the Governments new apprenticeship scheme was not ready for delivery as promised back in 2015. As of the 6th April the Government began collecting a new … Continue reading
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