It has been a particularly gloomy time to be involved in Children’s Services lately. More an more councils are effectively going bust, and are citing the increasing cost of running Children’s Services as one of the main factors.
The cost of living crisis means that many of our residents will sadly find it difficult to just pay for the basic essentials this Christmas.
We are asking the Government: where is the new Royal Berkshire Hospital?
This last year has seen Wokingham Borough Council embark on an exciting new approach to setting its priorities for the future.
There are 34,951 incomplete patient pathways on a waiting list in West Berkshire which included Wokingham - the equivalent of 60 per 1,000 patients
Wokingham Liberal Democrats have slammed local MP Sir John Redwood for voting against a compensation scheme for swimmers who get sick from sewage.
Under today’s Conservative government we have the highest level of taxation since 1948. Incredibly though, this was not acknowledged by the Conservatives in last weeks Autumn statement, who continued to claim that they are the party of low taxation.
In Prime Minister’s Questions, Rishi Sunak dodged Ed Davey’s question about the status of the Government’s promise to build a new Royal Berkshire hospital which serves Reading, Wokingham and South Oxfordshire.
Many thanks to those residents who took the trouble to write to Michael Gove, the secretary of state responsible for local government, to press the case for a fairer financial deal from central government for Wokingham.
