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Apr 23
Mohammed Pervez has shown his displeasure at his disloyal Cabinet colleagues tonight as Sarah Hill and Debra Gratton lose seats on his Cabinet at tonight’s Labour group meeting. Cllr Sarah Hill stood against Pervez at last week’s leadership vote and failed to turn up at the meeting tonight. Debra Gratton failed to vote in the …
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Apr 04
The fate of a member of Stoke-on-Trent City Council’s Labour Cabinet who failed to vote at the council’s budget meeting, lies in the hands of the National Executive Committee of the Labour Party in London insiders claim. Sources from inside the City Council claim that the Labour Group met last week to discuss the failure …
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Mar 26
UPDATED: Mystery still surrounds Stoke-on-Trent City Council budget day meeting when the Cabinet submitted their budget to the full council and a Cabinet member, Labour’s Debra Gratton, failed to vote for her own and her Cabinet colleagues budget. Little comment has been made from the Labour Group except from the Labour Group’s Chief Whip, Cllr …
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Mar 06
The Director of Children & Young People, Sharon Menghini is leaving Stoke-on-Trent City Council on 31 March 2012 and is the latest blow to hit the beleaguered council. This follows the voluntary redundancy of her assistant, Andrew Warren only weeks ago, and a number of other senior staff taking VR including the head of children’s …
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Nov 02
This week is National Adoption Week and Stoke-on-Trent City Council is sharing some good news on its performance as figures published reveals it is actually increasing the number of adoptions year on year. In 2010-11 there were 35 children adopted compared to 30 the year before and another 14 have been adopted since April 2011. There …
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Oct 20
In the last decade, from 2001, 5 Stoke-on-Trent Children have die whilst receiving some form of intervention from Stoke-on-Trent City Council social services department. In the last ten year period, Stoke on Trent have experienced the deaths of 2 young people. One was in the care of the local authority in a designated’ Children’s Home’. …
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Jul 30
By-Election Analysis: Labour on the Rocks
News, Opinion
by PottEye
July 30, 2012
OPINION: Mike Barnes The time 10.20pm. The place: the count Springfields and Trent Vale By-Election, Civic Centre, Stoke-on-Trent. Stoke-on-Trent Labour Party’s by-election team, buoyed by the universal condemnation of the conservative and lib dem coalition on the doorstep, swagger into the count late; laughing and joking, oozing confidence and sensing a job well done, with just …
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