NATIONAL apprenticeships week is a time to celebrate this excellent opportunity for young people, and the work businesses do to help. I myself started my career as an apprentice, and I owe a lot to the opportunities I was given. But it is also a time for the government to reflect on how this careerContinue reading “National Apprenticeship Week”
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Thumbs-up to Oldham manufacturing & restoring the Oldham Gallery
GETTING OUT and visiting people, projects and places across our towns is a part of the job that I particularly enjoy. Last week I attended an event at Metconnect Ltd, a Merkle UK group company who hosted a marquee mini exhibition at their Oldham site of engineering welding, metal fabrication, machinery and technologies. There were overContinue reading “Thumbs-up to Oldham manufacturing & restoring the Oldham Gallery”
Dame Vera Baird QC backs the Annie Kenney project
I WAS delighted and honoured to host Dame Vera Baird QC, Police and Crime Commissioner for Northumbria in a visit to my constituency today. Dame Baird came to show her support for the Annie Kenney Project, an inspirational role model herself I was delighted to present her with a limited edition of an Annie KenneyContinue reading “Dame Vera Baird QC backs the Annie Kenney project”
Again, councils barely get the crumbs from the table
YESTERDAY I asked the Secretary of State Sajid Javid a number of questions about the latest local government finance settlement. First, does it step up to meet the scale of the challenges facing local public services in England today? Does it meet the challenge of 1.2 million older people who would have been entitled toContinue reading “Again, councils barely get the crumbs from the table”
100 ago today women were first given the vote. What role did Oldham play?
A CENTURY ago today the vote was extended to women for the first time in Britain. Although the act stopped short of giving the vote to all women, it paved the way for universal voting rights here in 1928. The First World War was still raging across the globe when the act was passed inContinue reading “100 ago today women were first given the vote. What role did Oldham play?”
Can technology and innovative business help low income households?
I was delighted to be asked to make the Opening speech for the Wayra Fair By Design acceleration programme.
Rough Sleeping is up, but it is only the tip of the iceberg
HOW LONG can a crisis of your own making be left to grow before you start taking responsibility? The latest stats show that rough sleeping has increased again in the last year. In fact rough sleeping has increased every year under the Tories. The facts are that the Tories have done too little to repairContinue reading “Rough Sleeping is up, but it is only the tip of the iceberg”
It’s time for a united democracy in the United Kingdom as Votes for 16 year olds in Wales shows the time has come for bigger change
NEW PLANS to give more young people a say in local democracy in Wales will be announced this week by the Welsh Government (Tuesday 30 Jan). They reflect last year’s Welsh Government consultation on reforming the electoral system in Wales, which received almost 1000 responses.
Jim McMahon OBE MP 