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Daisy's Campaign Diary: 11/01/2011 - 12/01/2011
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Tuesday, 1 November 2011. Report Finds No Residents Adversely Affected by Changes to Adult Care. Earlier this year, when I was Lead Member for Adult Social Care I led changes to the Council's Eligibility Criteria for Adult Social Care to 'Substantial' and 'Critical'. I did this to ensure that adult care would be available for people who need it now and in the future - putting social care in Reading on a sustainable footing. As I said at the time:. On access to adult social care services, requested by Lab...
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Daisy's Campaign Diary: 09/01/2011 - 10/01/2011
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Thursday, 29 September 2011. Stop Labour's Stealthy Cuts to Reading's Sheltered Housing. This week without a fanfare - no press release - Reading Council's Labour administration launched a consultation on sheltered housing. It is available here. On the Council's website. The Sheltered Housing Services Consultation asks for views on the current service and the proposed changes at 10 of the Council's sheltered housing schemes. Changes to the amount of support time provided. Many of them are on low incomes.
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Daisy's Campaign Diary: Towards Sustainable Adult Community Care Services in Reading
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Monday, 14 March 2011. Towards Sustainable Adult Community Care Services in Reading. I was pleased that yesterday evening the proposals I have been leading in recent months to put social care in Reading on a more sustainable footing were agreed by Cabinet and won support in principle from Labour councillors. I also responded to questions from Reading Mencap about how we will be supporting carers. Below are snippets from the presentation I gave:. Retain the current eligibility criteria for social care for...
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Daisy's Campaign Diary: 10/01/2010 - 11/01/2010
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Saturday, 23 October 2010. First up, apologies for the lack of posts: I have not gone into hibernation nor given up campaigning! The simple fact is I have just had possibly the busiest five months of my political career, managing one of the most challenging portfolios on Reading Borough Council, and on top of that, I've started a new job. Is ahead of me however recently adopting Posterous. After four years as an opposition councillor I am really enjoying getting stuck into adminstration. As Chair of ...
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Daisy's Campaign Diary: Council Agrees Plan to Transform Adult Social Care in Reading
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Wednesday, 30 March 2011. Council Agrees Plan to Transform Adult Social Care in Reading. Other Reading councillors may wish to comment on their blogs or elsewhere on the politics of yesterday's Council meeting. However, from my point of view the most significant issue on the Council's agenda yesterday was in relation to Transforming Social Care - a programme I have led since May 2010 and written about here extensively. I am pleased that this plan was agreed. Labour tabled a series of ill-conceived, ill-c...
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Daisy's Campaign Diary: Empty Homes Week 2011 - Reading Lib Dems' Campaign Continues
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Monday, 5 December 2011. Empty Homes Week 2011 - Reading Lib Dems' Campaign Continues. Apologies for the lack of updates, the previous few weeks have been incredibly busy, but productive. I haven't had time to write many blog posts so if you want to keep up with my activities you might want to follow me on Twitter. But I wanted to write a quick note about an important current issue and one that is close to my heart . This week is National Empty Homes Week. Fast forward to today and we have a Council cont...
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Daisy's Campaign Diary: Report Finds No Residents Adversely Affected by Changes to Adult Care
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Tuesday, 1 November 2011. Report Finds No Residents Adversely Affected by Changes to Adult Care. Earlier this year, when I was Lead Member for Adult Social Care I led changes to the Council's Eligibility Criteria for Adult Social Care to 'Substantial' and 'Critical'. I did this to ensure that adult care would be available for people who need it now and in the future - putting social care in Reading on a sustainable footing. As I said at the time:. On access to adult social care services, requested by Lab...
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Daisy's Campaign Diary: 05/01/2011 - 06/01/2011
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Tuesday, 31 May 2011. I always like to keep an eye on what other councils are doing to see if there are things I can learn from. Or avoid! I noticed today that one of the first decisions of Newcastle City Council which was run by the Lib Dems before the May elections but is now run by Labour was to to reinstate neighbourhood warden posts. This sounds like a popular move - but on balance a rather foolish one. The 'Notes to editors' at the foot of the Council press release caught my eye:. Now six vacancies...
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Daisy's Campaign Diary: 12/01/2011 - 01/01/2012
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Wednesday, 7 December 2011. Stamping out Human Trafficking in Reading. Back in October I attended a Conference. Organised by Lib Dem MEP for our area, Catherine Bearder, on the subject of human trafficking. It included some truly shocking presentations about trafficking and the impact it is having on children and adults from countries around the world. For this reason I'm really grateful to Catherine for making me aware of the issue and for choosing to hold the conference in Reading. The control – ...
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Daisy's Campaign Diary: 10/01/2011 - 11/01/2011
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Monday, 31 October 2011. Labour councillors have questions to answer on bus lane fines. This evening at a meeting of Reading Borough Council's Cabinet. I posed some questions to Labour's Transport Chief, Cllr Tony Page:. The aim of bus lane fines is to deter people from driving in bus lanes. Given the sharp rise in fines– an extra 6,000 since you took over rising 3,000 per month ever since (apart from August). What are you doing to address this and reduce the number of vehicles abusing bus lanes? However...
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