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Labour county councillors call on Government action for better protection against Covid for care home staff and residents

After the County Council resisted Labour’s calls for an independent enquiry into care homes Covid outbreaks and deaths last summer, your Labour County Councillors have been busy continuing to hold the Conservative administration of Cambridgeshire County Council to account over the situation in our care homes. National requirements still state…

Labour leader on County Council critical of Conservative budget failures

The dust may have settled after the meeting on the 9th of February, where the Conservative administration passed their budget proposals for the period from now until April 2026. But given the choices that they made in what they focused investment on (and what they pointedly didn’t), the debate is…

December 2020 Round Up: Why Cambridge needs a Labour-run City Council

Cambridge’s Labour controlled City Council has achieved so much in 2020, working with key partners in the third sector and beyond, to support our communities during one of the toughest times any of us has experienced. We’ve made over 200 offers of accommodation made to rough sleepers during COVID and…

Council Supports TUC ‘Stay Safe At Work – Join A Union Campaign’ to Keep Cambridge Safer

Cambridge City Council is supporting a TUC campaign to promote a safe return to work by encouraging people to join a trade union. The campaign recognises the vital contribution that trade unions have made to ensuring workplaces are safer for staff and members of the public through the coronavirus epidemic.…

Cambridge partnership effort to beat coronavirus must continue

It is hard to conceive that the Coronavirus epidemic has been with us locally less than five short months. For most of us it feels a lot, lot longer. You? Local teamwork of Cambridge City Council, the County Council and hundreds of organisations has provided answers to challenges that none…

County Councillor calls for independent inquiry into care home COVID deaths

On Tuesday 21st of July Labour County Councillor for King’s Hedges division Elisa Meschini moved for Cambridgeshire County Council to produce an independent report into the 127 deaths from COVID19 in care homes across the county. The Conservative ruling group blocked this proposal, with all their councillors whipped to vote…

Labour Councillors Slam Johnson’s Paint Job Plans

Labour City Councillors have reacted angrily to the news that Boris Johnson is spending £900,000 of public money on repainting the Prime Ministerial plane, which arrived at Marshall Airport yesterday ready for work to start. Cllr Lewis Herbert, Leader of the City Council, said; “When the Government refuses to reimburse…

Organisations join forces to keep Cambridge fed

Organisations from Cambridge’s Food Poverty Alliance are working together to keep holiday lunch programme run by the city council and community partners going during the Coronavirus crisis, making sure that food is getting to residents in need. Three community food hubs – at Arbury Road Baptist Church, The Edge Café…

Supporting Cambridge’s Rough Sleepers During The Coronavirus Epidemic

The City Council has committed itself to implement government guidance to support rough sleepers or those at risk of rough sleeping for whom it’s often harder to self-isolate, and to make sure that they have access to accommodation and the support they need. Currently they are looking at council properties…

Cambridge Councillors and MPs join forces to support the city’s residents

Early yesterday we issued a joint message of solidarity with all Cambridge residents and businesses, co-signed by all Cambridge city and county councillors and MPs which you can read in full here. Lewis Herbert, Labour Councillor for Coleridge and Leader of Cambridge City Council, explained the decision to suggest this…