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Lots of cutbacks in services but never any slowing down of the increases in salary for the top executives on the council.


Annie Shepperd, chief executive of Southwark council, earned ?224,736 in 2009/10 according to the South London Press.


http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/news.cfm?id=32116&headline=Council%20bosses'%20pay%20makes%20England%20top%2010


I know what I would cut!


GG

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Hi,


Southwark Council has a duty to examine how all new (and existing) proposals have on various groups via an equality impact assessment to ensure they do not adversely impact on one group due to age, gender, disability, race etc.


RTAs are significant public health issue, which disproportionately affect children. There is also a clear inequality in RTAs with children from the lowest socio-economic groups more likely to be killed or injured on the road.


Perhaps James can ask if Southwark have done and EIA, if we can see it and if it has fully examined how the proposed reduction will not lead to greater health inequalities?

Also perhaps he can also ask how the proposal is coterminous with the Council's Obesity Strategy?

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first mate Wrote:

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> Why not have volunteer lollipop people- perhaps

> parents who are not working could do a rota. If

> enough parents volunteer it might mean you only

> have to do a stint once a month. Parent power to

> protect your kids?



Plays into Tory hands to cut services though dunnit? What next? Family members providing care in hospitals so they can sack all the nurses?

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Green Goose Wrote:

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> Lots of cutbacks in services but never any slowing

> down of the increases in salary for the top

> executives on the council.

>

> Annie Shepperd, chief executive of Southwark

> council, earned ?224,736 in 2009/10 according to

> the South London Press.

>

> http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/news.cfm?id=321

> 16&headline=Council%20bosses'%20pay%20makes%20Engl

> and%20top%2010

>

> I know what I would cut!

>

> GG


They seem to find the money somewhere to pay their Executive staff.

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first mate Wrote:

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> Why not have volunteer lollipop people- perhaps

> parents who are not working could do a rota. If

> enough parents volunteer it might mean you only

> have to do a stint once a month. Parent power to

> protect your kids?


Until you are looking the wrong way for one moment and a kid gets hit by a car. Potential legal nightmare.

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Ratty,


I think you'll find that in certain sections of hospital care/nursing homes this is already an unspoken requirement because the staffing levels are not high enough. In other cultures there is an expectation that you feed and bathe familyy whilst in hospital.


It may be a bitter pill, but there are a number of Mums that don't work and volunteering to do lollipop duty may be viewed as a useful contribution to ease the general tax burden. Just a thought.

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Undisputedtruth Wrote:

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> Green Goose Wrote:

> --------------------------------------------------

> -----

> > Lots of cutbacks in services but never any

> slowing

> > down of the increases in salary for the top

> > executives on the council.

> >

> > Annie Shepperd, chief executive of Southwark

> > council, earned ?224,736 in 2009/10 according

> to

> > the South London Press.

> >

> >

> http://www.southlondon-today.co.uk/news.cfm?id=321

>

> >

> 16&headline=Council%20bosses'%20pay%20makes%20Engl

>

> > and%20top%2010

> >

> > I know what I would cut!

> >

> > GG

>

> They seem to find the money somewhere to pay their

> Executive staff.



Start a petition to ask Annie Shepperd to donate the 50K herself!

;-)

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first mate Wrote:

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>

> It may be a bitter pill, but there are a number of

> Mums that don't work and volunteering to do

> lollipop duty may be viewed as a useful

> contribution to ease the general tax burden. Just

> a thought.


It would be a bitter pill. Especially to those of us who already have to volunteer loads to support the govenrnment in educating our children, and whose entire job is already voluntary. Also, being a mum unfortunately doesn't necessarily mean that you are a responsible enough to escort about 800 children over the road each session - as Bert does at the East Dulwich Road Crossing - until Friday that is when they will have to muddle through themselves. Please put your name to the petition.

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gwod,


sorry, not meaning to be obstructive, but voluntary work does not preclude training and the possibility of some level of insurance/legal cover.


I'd gladly sign a petition demanding a reduction in council chief exec pay though- ?250, that's virtually the cost of ownership of a home/flat a year.

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first mate - are you suggesting some sort of BIG SOCIETY nonsense??


I am a sahm. It's a bit rich to assume that we have nothing better to do with out time than pick up the pieces of all these cuts because we are just lounging around doing nothing.


With the apparent lack of jobs out there, we should be employing someone professional to do this critical job, not patching together some sort of amateurish scheme. We are talking about protecting some of the most vulnerable in society after all.

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