Category: Birkenhead

ATOS use PR business to “monitor websites and social media” “for mentions of Atos and disability assessments”

ATOS use PR business to “monitor websites and social media” “for mentions of Atos and disability assessments”

ATOS use PR business to “monitor websites and social media” “for mentions of Atos and disability assessments”

                                            

Ministerial Correspondence DWP (ATOS supply information for “Ministerial correspondence”)
Ministerial Correspondence DWP (ATOS supply information for “Ministerial correspondence”)

I’ve been reading through the Department for Work and Pensions contract with Atos IT Services UK Ltd (who trade under the name Independent Assessment Services (IAS)) which is a contract for PIP assessments in Northern England and Scotland. However in the area I live (Birkenhead) the PIP assessments are sub-contracted to an organisation called TICCS.
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Consultation starts on “masterplan” for Birkenhead Town Centre, but what changes does it propose?

Consultation starts on “masterplan” for Birkenhead Town Centre, but what changes does it propose?

Consultation starts on “masterplan” for Birkenhead Town Centre, but what changes does it propose?

                                

Cllr Tony Jones (Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Growth) (foreground) at a meeting of Wirral Council’s Cabinet (30th September 2019)
Cllr Tony Jones (Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Growth) (foreground) at a meeting of Wirral Council’s Cabinet (30th September 2019)

Wirral Council have received £173,029 to set up a Town Deal Board, come up with an Investment Plan for Birkenhead and to consult on the proposed changes. The aim of this is so that Wirral Council can then make a bid for up to £25 million of funding from the government’s Towns Fund.
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Will Public Works Loan Board interest rate rise of 1% alter Wirral Council’s business case for purchase of shops in Milton Pavement, Birkenhead?

Will Public Works Loan Board interest rate rise of 1% alter Wirral Council’s business case for purchase of shops in Milton Pavement, Birkenhead?

Will Public Works Loan Board interest rate rise of 1% alter Wirral Council’s business case for purchase of shops in Milton Pavement, Birkenhead?

                                    

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Cabinet (Wirral Council) 4th November 2019

Cllr Tony Jones (Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Growth) (foreground) at a meeting of Wirral Council’s Cabinet (30th September 2019)
Cllr Tony Jones (Cabinet Member for Regeneration and Growth) (foreground) at a meeting of Wirral Council’s Cabinet (30th September 2019)

Wirral Council’s Cabinet on Monday agreed recommendations to agree “in principle” to the purchase of shops in Milton Pavement, Birkenhead and a unit at 13-15 St Werburgh’s Square. A consultation is expected to start on the 7th November 2019.
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PIP assessments are a strange place somewhere between the Great Escape and Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition

PIP assessments are a strange place somewhere between the Great Escape and Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition

PIP assessments are a strange place somewhere between the Great Escape and Monty Python’s Spanish Inquisition

                                            

After what Reverend Mike Loach said at that event about the media demonising people with disabilities I am writing and publishing this story to explain what life is like if you are a disabled person in the UK.

For mistakes the state made before I was born I was born disabled. There is no cure for the disabilities I have and I struggle and muddle through life in constant pain and yes I work.
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What happened at the Remembering Srebrenica event in Birkenhead organised by Wirral Council and the Wirral National Education Union?

What happened at the Remembering Srebrenica event in Birkenhead organised by Wirral Council and the Wirral National Education Union?

What happened at the Remembering Srebrenica event in Birkenhead organised by Wirral Council and the Wirral National Education Union?

                                           

Remembering Srebrenica 11th July 2019 Wirral Change, Birkenhead L to R Steve Baker, Revd Mike Loach, Cllr Tom Usher, Ferdushi Mohshin, Neil Sledge, Mark Camborne and Inspector John Sacker

On Thursday afternoon (11th July 2019) Leonora and I got the bus to a Remembering Srebrenica event (jointly organised by Wirral Council and the Wirral Branch of the National Education Union) held at Wirral Change at 12 Saint Laurence Drive, Birkenhead, CH41 3JD starting at 4.00 pm.

The venue used to be part of St Laurences’ Catholic Primary School before the school closed in August 2010. Part of the former school is now used for Wirral Change, part of the rest of the site but with a different entrance is used by Tomorrow Womens Wirral and I don’t know what the rest is used for.
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