Please sign and share our petition. We’re over halfway to getting Parliament to debate a compensation scheme for DWP mistakes in informing #WASPI women. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7007
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Wednesday, November 27, 2024
Compensation for WASPI women petition
Please sign and share our petition. We’re over halfway to getting Parliament to debate a compensation scheme for DWP mistakes in informing #WASPI women. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7007
Saturday, September 18, 2021
AFG: Cancel the Cuts
"As Support Workers, we have gone above and beyond during the pandemic to support some of our community’s most vulnerable residents.
Despite this, our employer Alternative Futures Group (AFG) is proposing drastic cuts to our pay and conditions. This includes sick pay, holiday entitlement, sleep-in pay and bank holiday enhancements. We deserve decent pay and conditions for the exceptional job we do. We need occupational sick pay to protect the health and wellbeing of ourselves and the people we care for.
We call on our employer, AFG, to stop proposed cuts to our pay and conditions and to pay the Foundation Living Wage to all Support Workers at AFG.
We call on local authorities that commission AFG to take responsibility for how public funds are being spent, to ensure that our pay and conditions aren’t cut and to improve commissioning standards to ensure all care workers receive decent pay and conditions.
And we call on members of the public to hold local councillors to account and to stand with us in our campaign for reward and recognition at work".
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Sunday, January 20, 2019
Right to Buy: Wrong for London
"Dear John
Tomorrow I’m publishing a new report which reveals the extent to which former council homes sold through the Right to Buy are now being rented out by private landlords. In advance of its publication I wanted to share some of the individual borough findings with Labour councillors in London today.
Across London, 42% of homes sold off through the Right to Buy are now being rented out by private landlords at market rates – up from 36% when I last investigated this issue in 2014.
That’s at least 11,000 more council homes in the hands of private landlords than there were five years ago, a shocking transfer of wealth from the many to the few.
In Newham, 44.6% of former council homes sold through the Right to Buy are now being rented out by private landlords. There are at least 5 individuals in Newham who own five or more former council homes.
My report also reveals that councils in London are spending a total of at least £22 million a year renting back 2,333 of their former council homes to house homeless families. These were homes they were forced to sell at a discount that they now have to pay market rates to rent back.
Newham has to rent back 808 homes at an annual cost of £12,858,869.
This is ludicrous, and the blame lies squarely with Tory government policies.
It would be galling if the crucial work Labour councils across London are doing building new council homes for the first time in a generation was undermined by the continuation of the Right to Buy.
That’s why I’m asking people to take action by signing this petition calling on Theresa May to end Right to Buy in England. The Scottish and Welsh governments have already done so.
I would be extremely grateful if you could promote this petition on social media so that it can attract as much support as possible.
The full report will be published on my website tomorrow along with the data tables. If you have any questions about the research, or would like to discuss it, please let me know".
Best wishes,
Tom Copley AM
London Assembly Member | City Hall Labour housing spokesperson
(this is a great evidence backed campaign led by Tom which should be supported by all of us concerned with the housing crisis in London and elsewhere. I have signed the petition)
Across London, 42% of homes sold off through the Right to Buy are now being rented out by private landlords at market rates – up from 36% when I last investigated this issue in 2014.
That’s at least 11,000 more council homes in the hands of private landlords than there were five years ago, a shocking transfer of wealth from the many to the few.
In Newham, 44.6% of former council homes sold through the Right to Buy are now being rented out by private landlords. There are at least 5 individuals in Newham who own five or more former council homes.
My report also reveals that councils in London are spending a total of at least £22 million a year renting back 2,333 of their former council homes to house homeless families. These were homes they were forced to sell at a discount that they now have to pay market rates to rent back.
Newham has to rent back 808 homes at an annual cost of £12,858,869.
This is ludicrous, and the blame lies squarely with Tory government policies.
It would be galling if the crucial work Labour councils across London are doing building new council homes for the first time in a generation was undermined by the continuation of the Right to Buy.
That’s why I’m asking people to take action by signing this petition calling on Theresa May to end Right to Buy in England. The Scottish and Welsh governments have already done so.
I would be extremely grateful if you could promote this petition on social media so that it can attract as much support as possible.
The full report will be published on my website tomorrow along with the data tables. If you have any questions about the research, or would like to discuss it, please let me know".
Best wishes,
Tom Copley AM
London Assembly Member | City Hall Labour housing spokesperson
(this is a great evidence backed campaign led by Tom which should be supported by all of us concerned with the housing crisis in London and elsewhere. I have signed the petition)
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