Sobering Covid-19 warning issued to Sunderland families by health chiefs
The vaccine roll-out has helped bring infection rates down in the North East
13:03, 12 MAR 2021
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‘Covid isn’t going away’, health chiefs have warned Sunderland’s families. Months of lockdown and the roll out of vaccines have seen infection rates steadily declining across Wearside, along with ‘significant’ falls in the number of people dying from the virus or needing hospital treatment.
Posted: Thu 11th Mar 2021
Argument over lack of support for £3.5m Children’s Services cash injection as ‘maths’ and process challenged again by Labour group
The Lead Member of Children’s Services condemned the Labour group on Wrexham council for not raising questions over the department before rejecting a budget that will see £3.5m injected into the service.
Members of the Safeguarding, Communities & Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee were examining the reasons why Children’s Services are reporting an overspend of £5.9m for eight months of the financial year, a topic that has had two recent heated debates.
One such debate came during the formal setting of the council’s budget, that had a £3.5m cash injection earmarked for the service. The budget passed Council, however the Labour group did not support it, citing the questions around the overspend as to why.
Updated: Fri 5th Mar
Committee to examine £5.9 million overspend in council’s Children’s Services for first eight months of year
Members of the Safeguarding, Communities & Wellbeing Scrutiny Committee will examine the reasons why Children’s Services are reporting an overspend of £5.9m for eight months of the financial year.
The broad issue of the overspend recently surfaced during public budget discussions, where questions were raised by Cllr Dana Davies over who ‘signed it off’. Last month when the budget was discussed again the matter raised where Cllr Davies referred to an £8m overspend figure – substantially more than in the report before councillors next week.
The cash for vaccines scam you can easily fall for is doing the rounds in Sunderland
The NHS will never as you for financial details
11:32, 5 FEB 2021
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Cllr Ketan Sheth, Brent Council
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8:30 AM December 19, 2020
Cllr Ketan Sheth invites residents to have their say on new Mount Vernon Centre
- Credit: Ketan Sheth
Around 2,500 residents in the Brent battle cancer each year. Thanks to advances in treatment, more people now survive the deadly disease than ever before.
It is critical we have access to the latest treatments and research trials, and I have been very interested to learn about changes being considered for the Mount Vernon Cancer Centre. If you have been, you may have been treated by a highly skilled, caring team, but you will also know that the buildings are in a bad way.