Susie Burpee, Author at Liz Kendall

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Liz’s office supports residents with rising energy prices

31/01/2022

If you are struggling with debt, make sure you speak to a money advice service – they can talk you through the different options and ensure you’re informed about grants and funding available to you. Citizen’s Advice Leicester offer money and debt advice for free, and other locally-based advice services […]

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Leicester commemorates Holocaust Memorial Day 2022

27/01/2022

Today is Holocaust Memorial Day where we remember the six million Jewish men, woman and children murdered during the Holocaust, alongside the millions of other people killed under Nazi persecution of other groups and in all subsequent genocides. Students from Fullhurst Community College in Braunstone have written poems to […]

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Letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions

20/01/2022

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Social care; this is how Labour would fix crisis

12/01/2022

I wrote for the Yorkshire Post about what the Tories have got wrong with their so-called ‘reform’ to social care, and how Labour would fix it. Under the Prime Minister’s plans, if you own a £1m home, more than 90 per cent of your assets are protected. If you own […]

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Christmas Office Closure

23/12/2021

My constituency office is now closed until Tuesday 4 January 2022. Phone messages and emails will be checked regularly for emergencies only. If you are a constituent that requires urgent help, I’ve put together a list of emergency contacts that may be helpful. Find them here. I hope everyone has […]

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Liz demands action to protect children from COVID-19

16/12/2021

As the Christmas holidays approach, I am very concerned that the Government have failed to learn lessons from the previous years about coronavirus in schools. I spoke on Politics Live yesterday about what needs to be done. Right now, only 44% of 12-15 year-olds have received a first dose of […]

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Leicestershire MPs call for end of Johnson’s Government following Downing Street party scandal

13/12/2021

I, like many others, was outraged to learn of the party held in Downing Street at the height of lockdown. Leicester was locked down for over a year. People made huge sacrifices to follow the rules, unable to say goodbye to their loved ones and spending Christmas apart from family […]

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Boris Johnson warned 22,000 people will run out of cash before care cap comes in

12/12/2021

Analysis by the Labour Party has revealed that by the time Boris Johnson’s cap on care costs comes in, 22,000 people will have run out of money. The Prime Minister promised over 800 days ago to ‘fix the crisis in social care once and for all’, but his White Paper […]

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Care home in Kent gives families 10 hours’ notice of closure

06/12/2021

Residents at Berkley House in Kent were told one morning that they had to be out by 5pm the same day. They had to close due to staffing shortages, leaving their residents with autism and severe learning difficulties with nowhere to go. This awful case is just the tip of […]

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Liz responds to the Government’s social care white paper

02/12/2021

Yesterday, the Government published their long-awaited social care white paper, outlining their plans to reform the social care system. What we needed was a long-term vision that finally put social care where it belonged; on an equal footing with the NHS, at the heart of a modernised welfare state. But […]

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Boris Johnson is not showing enough ambition to fix the social care crisis

30/11/2021

Boris Johnson has repeatedly promised – including in the 2019 Conservative manifesto – that no one will have to sell their home to pay for their care. But the very same Tory MPs who were elected on this promise voted through a policy so indefensibly unfair that Andrew Dilnot, the original […]

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Liz congratulates Carers Centre on 30 years

29/11/2021

Today is the 30th Anniversary of The Carers Centre – Leicestershire and Rutland. For thirty years they’ve supported unpaid family carers in looking after their loved ones, offering them advice and company through what can be an incredibly difficult time. I’ve written to Kirsteen McVeigh, CEO of The Carers Centre, […]

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