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Cambridgeshire has been below average in funding drugs and alcohol treatments. At today's Adults & Health Committee, Labour cllrs Richard Howitt & Mike Black welcomed the Labour Government granting the county an extra £5million in a multi-year settlement, to do better.
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Labour's Adult Social Care and Public Health Spokesperson Cllr Richard Howitt calls on the Lib Dem-run Cambs County Council to reverse "completely absurd" cut to handyperson service for elderly and frail. "For every £1 spent, it saves the county £7.50." bbc.co.uk/news/articles/clyz…
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Labour County Councillors Richard Howitt and Mike Black spoke out against Lib Dem cuts to mental health services and welcomed the Labour Government's proposed Fair Pay Agreement for care workers, at the Council's Adults & Health Committee today.
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The last full council meeting of 2025! The highlight for us was Cllr Bryony Goodliffe successfully passing a motion creating a Care Experienced Champion member role, building on her previous motion on making care experience a protected characteristic in the county.
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Labour councillor @richardhowitt calls for the Mill Road Old Library building in his Petersfield division, to be returned to the community - after Cambridgeshire County Council have now failed twice to sell it off. See cambridgeindependent.co.uk/n…
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Labour's Social Care and Health spokesperson Cllr Richard Howitt at @CambsCC committee today welcomed £1.5m new Government grant, to combat drug use across the county. “This will combat new synthetic opioids flooding in to the country and save lives," he said.
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Cllr Elisa Meschini attended the Cambridgeshire Strategy Poverty Commission final report launch in St Ives. Thank you to the commission co-chairs, residents & officers involved, and our councillors including @LabourAlexB who worked on this as previous Communities vice-chair.
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“Reform councillor Andy Osborn calls children in care evil” Labour Councillor Bryony Goodliffee spoke against labelling children and focusing on our duty as corporate parents ensuring we have a trauma-informed approach to care.
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She said: "We also have a responsibility for these children, they are our children under the corporate parenting legislation, they are very much our responsibility.
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I think we need to be very careful about labelling children as naughty children, what they are doing is reacting to the situations that they have been in, which are of no control of their own” huntspost.co.uk/news/2521469…

Reform councillor calls some children in care 'not just naughty but downright evil'

Reform councillor Andy Osborn labelled some children in care as “evil” at a Cambridgeshire County Council meeting on June 3.

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Councillor Bryony Goodliffe is our Labour representative on the Children and Young People Committee (CYP) at Cambridgeshire County Council. As County councillors we have a responsibility for the children in care in Cambridgeshire and those Care leavers who have been in care.
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Great at CYP committee today to focus on how we can improve the education, care and assistance we give to all our children and young people.
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Key decisions today included a new residential home for children in care in another county owned property as well as renewing the drug and alcohol prevention program across Cambridgeshire.
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The Labour group at the County Council AGM today - a short meeting mainly about appointments, including the chair and vice chair of the council. Congratulations to Cllr Peter McDonald (Chair) and Cllr Tom Sanderson (Vice-Chair).
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Labour's manifesto for the Cambridgeshire County Council elections is launched. Labour is seeking to retain joint control of the County, which we won four years ago. Read our manifesto to see our plans, if returned to power on 1 May. #VoteLabour! cambridgelabour.org.uk/2025-…
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Campaigning for people with learning disability. Labour's Cllr Richard Howitt, Chair of Adults & Health, hits out at uncertainty, lack of provision and planned cuts by Cambridgeshire health services. They should stay integrated, he says. bbc.com/news/articles/c8d47j…
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📢 29 more Labour candidates for the 1 May elections announced today 🌹 Candidates being unveiled today cover East Cambridgeshire, Fenland, Huntingdonshire, South Cambridgeshire and St Neots and Mid-Cambs. 🖊️ Read more about our candidates here: facebook.com/share/p/18PAGeT…
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LABOUR ANNOUNCES MORE CANDIDATES FOR CAMBRIDGESHIRE COUNTY COUNCIL ELECTIONS Cambridgeshire Labour is today (20 February) announcing three more of its candidates who will be standing for the party in Cambridgeshire County Council elections on 1 May.
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EAST CAMBRIDGESHIRE Littleport - REBECCA DENNESS  Waterbeach - JAMES BULL FENLAND Chatteris - JAMIE EAMES  Wisbech West - GEORGE BROUGHTON  HUNTINGDONSHIRE Huntingdon North and Hartford - LUKE VINER St Ives South & Needingworth - ALEX BULAT
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This is the second of a rolling programme of announcements, with further Labour candidates to be unveiled soon.
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