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Southwark Labour meets ambitious manifesto pledge on jobs
Earlier this month we achieved Southwark Labour’s ambitious manifesto commitment to supporting 5000 Southwark residents into employment.
05 December 2017
A new tube station at the Bricklayers Arms
This weekend, Labour Councillors and candidates were out in force that the rally to support a new tube station at the Bricklayers Arms.
13 November 2017
This Government can learn a thing or two from Councils on Apprenticeships
Last week, the DfE released the apprenticeship figures for the previous quarter, and their press release came straight out of the ‘burying bad news playbook’.
20 October 2017
Update on the Ledbury estate
Following the tragic fire at Grenfell Towers a joint meeting was held with the council, London Fire Brigade (LFB) and residents on the Ledbury Estate to discuss fire safety issues and concerns. At that meeting, a resident reported large cracks in their flat in one of the four towers on the Ledbury estate, expressing concern that these cracks breached the compartmentation of the flat and therefore compromised fire safety. A commitment was given at the meeting to visit the property and to check if compartmentation had been breached.
06 October 2017
Theresa May's missed opportunity to solve the housing crisis
Cllr Mark Williams has written an article for CityMetric in response to Theresa May's disappointing speech yesterday, outlining why the £2bn she announced for affordable housing won't solve the housing crisis, and what the Government could be doing to help councils build the homes our residents so desperately need.
05 October 2017
Southwark Labour's Housing Record: The Aylesbury Estate
At this week’s Labour Party conference there was real energy and enthusiasm for public investment in social housing and a willingness to tackle the scandal of homelessness from delegates, members, and Jeremy Corbyn in his speech. At a time when local government and social housing is under attack by the Tories this clearly shows that only Labour has the ambition to build the homes our country needs.
29 September 2017
Statement from Cllr Peter John on ballots on estate regeneration
At this week’s Labour Party Conference Jeremy Corbyn set out with passion and conviction how a Labour government will invest in social and council housing, this is something we welcome and builds on our programme for 11,000 new council homes. We have shown this is possible but with a Labour government investing in this area then we can do even more to tackle the housing crisis.
29 September 2017
Southwark Labour are taking steps to tackle the housing crisis
Southwark Labour are taking steps to tackle the housing crisis - one of the biggest challenges for councils across the country thanks to Conservative cuts.
07 September 2017
Labour councillors and MPs fight proposed cuts to Southwark schools
Southwark Labour councillors and MPs are campaigning against the proposed National Funding Formula for all schools, which will disproportionately hit London and see Southwark schools lose funding of over £28m by 2019.
16 February 2017
Government failing to play their part in national social care crisis
The crisis in adult social care has now reached a tipping point for local authorities, and the government is pushing the burden on to local taxpayers by telling councils to plug the funding gap by raising council tax.
30 January 2017
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