Victoria Borwick - Listening to Londoners: Children’s Summit

Tuesday, June 27, 2006

Children’s Summit

Last week I attended a “Children’s Summit” at the House of Commons with many other councillors from all over the Country. This was a fascinating afternoon, chaired by Tim Loughton MP, the Conservative Shadow Children’s Minister and Health Minister, Maria Miller MP, Shadow Education Minister, and Baroness Morris, Shadow Health and Children’s Minister in the Lords.

There was a lively debate about children’s services, education, health, teenage pregnancies, youth issues, Sure Start and the setting up of Children’s Centres, and all the new responsibilities that will be forced on local councils as a result of the new Childcare Bill that is going through Parliament.

2 Comments:

At 22:00, londonmom said…

Victoria
As a mother of four children, what do you think are the critical issues in London for families?
At 22:54, Victoria Borwick said…

Safety, environment, transport, education - difficult to know what order to put them.

I want my children to get to school or out-of-school activities safely - I dont want to hear about knife crime every day, and children bullied and mugged - to much youth crime on the streets.
I want the environment we live in to be designed to reduce crime (avoid long dark alley ways, etc) I want to see LOCAL police on the streets. I want unmanned underground stations to be a thing of the past. Londoners should be able to be proud of their streets and their local area - clean off graffiti, clean up rubbish and dirty passageways and dumps.
Transport - I like the Oyster card and I like my children having free bus journeys, however we do need to think of transport not just in the centre of London where we are reasonably well served and realise that is not the same out of "zone 1" - I dont know what Borough you live in?

I have always campaigned for local schools and for more schools, I don't want more buildings that could be schools or be used to provide services to young people being turned into luxury flats. I have campaigned on this issue for some time.

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