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Staffordshire’s’s Lib Dems call for Carers’ Minimum Wage as vacancies spiral towards 2000

The Liberal Democrats are calling for a higher minimum wage for care workers in Staffordshire], to tackle desperate staff shortages in social care.

Results of the St John's Residents Survey - summer 2022

Summer Survey Results

75 hospitality businesses in TAMWORTH constituency face cost of living cliff edge

  75 businesses in Tamworth constituency are facing a huge £316720 energy bill increase once Government support is slashed in...

“Disgraceful” Levelling Up snub ignores community in TAMWORTH

The Government has failed to inject money and support local communities in TAMWORTH in last week's Levelling Up funding announcement.

No Levelling up money for Lichfield

' Lib Dem Councillor Paul Ray has responded to the announcement two days ago that Conservative Lichfield District Council had failed with its Levelling-Up bid to fund the new leisure centre and the comments from Michael Fabricant MP that followed. ' "The Conservatives are fighting between themselves when they should be fighting for our area. I want to reiterate that I wanted the council to succeed in raising the funding to deliver the new leisure centre that the people of Lichfield need and deserve. But the council is failing the people of Lichfield because delivery of this new leisure centre is no way in sight. ' Doug Pullen as Conservative leader of Lichfield District Council talks a good talk. But he has let us all down and it is clear that so much more should have done with this bid. ' Also I am on a group overseeing the Conservatives' delivery of this new leisure centre. But no regular meetings of task group have been happening. These have only been happening after I chase and complain publicly. ' The ou