Know ye that this day, November 27th in the year of our Lord Two Thousand and nineteen, the 68th year of the reign of Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II, Duke of Lancaster, is
Lancashire Day
Know ye also, and rejoice, that by virtue of Her Majesty’s County Palatine of Lancaster, the citizens of the Hundreds of Lonsdale, North and South of the Sands, Amounderness, Leyland, Blackburn, Salford and West Derby are forever entitled to style themselves Lancastrians.
Throughout the County Palatine, from the Furness Fells to the River Mersey, from the Irish Sea to the Pennines, this day shall ever mark the people’s pleasure in that excellent distinction – true Lancastrians, proud of the Red Rose and loyal to our Sovereign Duke.
GOD BLESS LANCASHIRE AND GOD SAVE THE QUEEN, DUKE OF LANCASTER.
Manchester Road, Shaw from its junction with Big Lamp Roundabout for a distance of 70 metres in a south westerly direction. For essential electrical cable works.
PLEASE NOTE THIS IS THE LAST RESORT ONCE OTHER AVENUES HAVE BEEN EXPLORED.
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Councillor Howard Sykes MBE highlights the work done
last year at the 2018 July Council meeting.
This work by the Oldham Liberal Democrats aimed to combat poor mental
health in schools. Unfortunately, Oldham
Council appears to have done nothing about it.
The Liberal Democrat Council group proposed a motion
to address problems with mental health in Oldham schools. The Department of Education stated that 10%
of 5 to 16 year olds suffered from ill mental health. On top of that, another 15% of the same group
were at risk of developing mental health issues. Councillor Sykes MBE, leader of the Liberal Democrats
in Oldham Borough, fears the Council is at risk of not addressing growing
problems.
“Oldham Council voted unanimously to progress
this. In July 2018, a report was
promised with a 12-month deadline to detail what Oldham Council has done or can
do. Since the deadline, there has been
three meetings where a report could have been given. It is now five months past that July
deadline.”
“I did not see or hear of any updates regarding
mental health in schools at the July 2019 Council meeting nor any meeting
since. This is not good enough and the
Council is potentially leaving young people vulnerable.”
Copy of letter to:
Councillor Zahid Chauhan, Cabinet member
for Health and Social Care
Councillor Amanda Chadderton, Cabinet member
for Children’s Services
Councillor Shaid Mushtaq’ Cabinet member
for Education and Skills
13th
November 2019
Dear Councillors
Zahid Chauhan, Amanda Chadderton and Shaid Mushtaq,
Re: Addressing mental ill-health in
schools
In the July Council meeting of 2018, Councillor Harkness and the Liberal Democrats proposed a motion to address problems with metal health in our schools. This was approved on the 12th September in the minutes from the July Council meeting.
Guidance from
the Department of Education states that 10% of 5-16 year olds suffer from ill
mental health. On top of that, another
15% of that cohort were at risk of developing mental health issues. I write to you as a reminder, as I fear that
Oldham Borough Council is at risk of not addressing these burgeoning problems.
The motion
detailed already exemplary work that Child and Adolescent Mental Health
Services (CAMHS) do in Oldham Borough.
But what is needed is continual and considerable upward development in
this sector.
Council voted
unanimously to ask the lead cabinet members to work with the Health and Well
Being Board to determine how the aspirations laid out in the motion can become
reality. A report was promised with a
12-month deadline to detail Oldham Council’s findings and action on this. Since the deadline, we have missed three Full
Council meetings where a report could have been given and will have failed to
meet the 12 month deadline by five months.
It interests
me greatly to know if this report had been realised within the 12-month
timeframe for delivery? I did not see or
hear of any updates regarding mental health in schools at the July 2019 Council
meeting nor any meeting since.
