Worcester News coverage of Liz’s visit to Worcester with Joy Squires, Labour parliamentary candidate for the seat.
Leicester Mercury coverage of Liz’s visit to a Action Homeless project
I recently visited an after-school Code Club at Woodstock primary school, in Stocking Farm. This fantastic project is part of a national network of volunteer led clubs, which was started locally by Abbey Ward Councillor, Vijay Singh Riyait, who is also an IT engineer. He’s been working with teachers at […]
I recently took part in Mowmacre Hill Primary School‘s “aspirations week” by joining a group of 30 children between the ages of 7 and 11, on a tour of Leicester Town Hall. We discussed my job as their MP and what they want to be when they grow up. Mowmacre […]
To mark this year’s Living Wage Week, I visited the London Borough of Islington to celebrate the progress the Labour Council has made on ensuring care staff get fair pay. Islington has ensured that all their home care staff are paid the Living Wage, including for travel time between […]
On Wednesday 5 November I spoke in a Westminster Hall debate on the situation faced by Britain’s homecare workers. Care staff do an incredibly important job looking after older and disabled people, but they are undervalued, underpaid and undertrained. Hundreds of thousands are on zero-hours contracts and don’t even get […]
I’m backing Action on Empty Homes, a great initiative run by the charity Action Homeless. It brings abandoned properties back into use to create affordable homes for people currently in hostel accommodation.It also generates training and employment opportunities, especially for people who have found it tough to secure work. 32 […]
Liz wrote her column on the way technology skills pupils are developing could help them in the future after she visited a Code Club at Woodstock Primary School.
On Thursday 23 October I appeared on the BBC’s Newsnight programme to discuss NHS England’s five year plan for the health service. This excellent report rightly says there will need to be big changes to NHS and social care services, and extra resources, to ensure our care system continues to meet […]
Since the Government announced its latest review into the future of children’s heart surgery back in June 2013, I’ve been working with Glenfield and its supporters to ensure that NHS England puts the clinical evidence and the quality of care at the heart of their decisions. On Friday, NHS England […]
I recently visited Leicester Masaya Link in New Parks to lend my support to their new Global Learning Library, which offers a collection of books, artefacts and guidance to support teachers. In an increasingly globalised world, it’s vital that children from across Leicester West understand what goes on beyond our […]
Coverage of Liz’s visit to Huddersfield with Colne Valley prospective parliamentary candidate Jane East.
