The Labour Group have put 2 motions down for the Full Council meeting on 29th February which cover concerns about the closure of Police Enquiry Offcies in Alfreton,Belper and Heanor without public consultation.Also covered is the need for the Council to be more open how it arrives its decsions by broadcasting its meetings
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Amber valley have issued the following letter to residents who may be affected by the proposal.and asked for your comments. The letter explains the process ( see details beow) But to summerise
What are the next steps?
Consultation on this option will commence for six weeks, starting on Friday 10th February and ending on 23rd March 2012.
Drop in events are to take place in the following locations, where further information will be on display and Community Planning officers will be available to answer questions.
Copies of consultation forms and flyers will also be available on the Borough Council’s web site at www.ambervalley.gov.uk and at the following locations from 10th February:
* The Borough Council’s headquarters, Market Place, Ripley (1st Floor)
* Ripley Library
* Belper Library
During normal opening times.
According to the Taxpayers Alliance Amber Valley employ more staff earning £50,000 a year in 2010/11 than they did in 2009/10
The current uproar over Banker’s pay and bonuses is nothing new .The poet Shelley in his ‘ A Philosophical View of Reform’ written between 1817 and 1820 shows that nothing has changed over the last 200 years in bankers’ attitudes when he wrote
‘…Their hopes and fears are of the narrowest description. Their domestic affections are feeble,and they haver no others. They think of any commerce with their species but as a means, never an end, and as a means to the basest forms of personal advantage’
Ed Milliband has written to Labour Party members with the following request
‘At Prime Minister’s Questions David Cameron made it clear that he will push ahead with this damaging bill against the overwhelming opposition of doctors, nurses, midwives and patients.
His bill is diverting billions away from patient care at a time when pressure on NHS resources is greater than it has ever been. Waiting lists are rising, services are squeezed and staff are being laid off. If we stopped this bill, we could use the money to protect 6000 NHS nurses.
We’ve become aware of a website hosted by the Home Office to promote the PCC elections.
Details are availbale Here
The website includes information on who may stand as a candidate as well as a candidate booklet explaining why you might want to run for election
The Council is sending forms to 5,000 postal voters asking them to update their signature if they want to vote again in the same way. Anyone registered for postal votes, proxy or postal proxy votes since January 2007 need to update their signatures if they want to vote by post or by proxy again. Signatures have to be updated every five years to prevent fraudulent practices relating to postal voting.
The Methodist Church, the Baptist Union of Great Britain, the United Reformed Church and the Quakers in Britain have called for Parliament to hold to the humane principles of the welfare state and reject a benefit cap. Church leaders said that the principle of a cap was flawed and would inevitably put vulnerable families at risk of poverty and homelessness.
Labour Group Leader Cllr Paul Jones was shocked by the public announcement of the closure of 3 of Amber Valley’s Police enquiry Offices at Alfreton, Belper and Heanor.
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