A blog about Wirral Council, Wirral Council's councillors & officers
A blog about Wirral Council's public meetings, Wirral Council's councillors, Bidston & St. James ward and other public bodies on Merseyside
Wirral Council’s Cabinet expected to recommend 5.99% council tax rise for 2018-19
The author’s wife has a liability for council tax for 2018-19 for a property on the Wirral, so I declare that as a financial interest in the below piece.
I would like to also thank the Bureau of Investigative Journalists (BIJ) for their help in the area of council budgets and this piece.
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EXCLUSIVE: What was Cllr Phil Davies’ last-minute reply to a letter threatening government intervention?
Last year, it was revealed at a special meeting of Wirral Council’s Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee (which can be watched below) that a government minister had written to Wirral Council expressing his concern that Wirral Council wasn’t preparing a Local Plan quick enough. A deadline of 31st January 2018 (yesterday) was given to reply.
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Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee 7th December 2018 Part 1 of 2
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Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee 7th December 2018 Part 2 of 2
Below is Cllr Phil Davies’ reply sent yesterday to the letter, followed by two attachments. The matter was also discussed by councillors yesterday at a regular public meeting of the Environment Overview and Scrutiny Committee (although councillors and the public present were handed out the reply and two attachments at the start of that agenda item rather than the start of the meeting which left little opportunity for it to be read in detail or scrutiny).
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EXCLUSIVE: NHS STP plan topic of special public meeting of Wirral Council councillors on 13th February 2018
Edited JB 30.1.2018 20:09 to add more detail about what meeting is about.
When looking at the calendar of public meetings at Wirral Council for February 2018, I noticed a special meeting of the Adult Care and Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee had been scheduled to start at 6.00 pm on Tuesday 13th February 2018 in Committee Room 1, Wallasey Town Hall, Brighton Street, Seacombe, CH44 8ED.
For those that have been following local politics around the NHS, or who read this blog regularly, you’ll be already aware of the controversy surrounding the STP plans (or to spell out the acronym Sustainability and Transformation Partnerships).
I am told that the special meeting on the 13th February 2018 (which will be held in public) will be discussing this topic as well as the NHS Five Year Forward View. As the agenda and reports are scheduled to be published on the 5th February 2018, I can’t provide more detail than that.
However there is a certain strength of feeling both on the Wirral and over in Liverpool about changes happening and proposed changes to the NHS.
It is a political topic that arouses strong feelings in people, especially those that rely heavily on NHS services.
The public meeting will be starting at 6.00 pm on Tuesday 13th February 2018 in Committee Room 1, Wallasey Town Hall, Brighton Street, Seacombe, CH44 8ED and next month the agenda and reports will be published on Wirral Council’s website at this address.
Wirral Council’s Adult Care and Health Overview and Scrutiny Committee will also be meeting in Committee Room 1 in public tonight at a meeting starting at 6.00 pm.
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Cllr Phil Davies threatens to “terminate” taxi contract following Conservative concerns about missing medical and criminal background checks
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Cllr David “long arm of the law” Burgess-Joyce (pictured above) subjected Council Leader Phil Davies to a long question at the last Council meeting.
He pointed out that criminal background checks and medical checks hadn’t being done on taxi drivers used to transport disabled children to and from school.
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After Lyndale School closure, Wirral Schools Forum told “Special schools in Wirral cannot collectively meet the needs or the demands of all Wirral children with SEND [Special Educational Needs and Disability]”
Tonight (at the time of publication) the Wirral Schools Forum meets in public. If you’re a glutton for punishment, it starts at 6.00 pm in the Council Chamber at Wallasey Town Hall.
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