South Swindon’s Labour PPC Anne Snelgrove this morning met with local mums and dads at Drove Children’s Centre to launch a campaign against Swindon Borough Council’s consultation on cuts to Children’s Centres.
South Swindon’s Labour PPC Anne Snelgrove this morning met with local mums and dads at Drove Children’s Centre to launch a campaign against Swindon Borough Council’s consultation on cuts to Children’s Centres.
Following the Government’s announcement for a tax-free Childcare scheme worth up to £1,200 per child for working parents the Swindon Labour Group’s Shadow Lead for Children’s Services, Councillor Cindy Matthews, has urged the Council to increase take-up of an existing government childcare scheme.
Cindy Matthews, Councillor for Lydiard & Freshbrook, and Labour's Shadow Lead Member on Children's Services is appalled at the effect that the new Conservative led coalition Government’s Bedroom Tax will have on residents in Swindon.
The day before 400,000 million people march in London to protest about Government cuts, the Department for Children, Schools and Families have withdrawn a vital webservice for families looking for assistance and local childcare. Swindon Borough Council is supposed to have replaced this service – DUT IT HASNT. When did Swindon borough Council know about this change? The Swindon Family Information Service just passes people looking for childminders back to the national service! This is a message fro the Swindon Sure Start…
“Teenage parents” are often singled out in the press as a group to demonize. Along with “feckless fathers” they are constantly criticised, but not in a way that understands the underlying social problems, or in a way that recognises the great steps taken by the last Labour Government in addressing the issue. Under the Labour Government teenage pregnacies dropped dramatically. In Feb 2010 Swindon borough reported that 2008 data showed that conceptions for girls age 15-17 years had declined to 36.1 per 1,000…