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"Disappointing" Failure To Give Social Tenants A Foot Up The Housing Ladder |
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Thursday, 02 July 2009 |
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New figures expose poor take-up of flagship Government housing policy in Tamworth The Government was accused this week of undermining social opportunity and social mobility. Its own official figures expose the minimal take-up across Tamworth of the flagship Government scheme to allow social tenants to buy or part-buy their home. Figures also reveal how the ‘Right to Buy’ is now increasingly beyond the reach of council tenants in Tamworth. As a result, even before the credit crunch, the chance of tenants of buying their council flat or house has been denied to ever more people on lower incomes.
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Shocking Numbers Needing Emergency Dental Treatment Across Tamworth |
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 |
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An alarming number of people across Tamworth need emergency dental treatment in hospital because of a lack of access to NHS dentists, it can be revealed. These urgent admissions are a direct result of patients not having an NHS dentist who is normally able to treat them in an emergency. · New figures extracted by the Conservatives show that across the country, 22,000 people had to be admitted to hospital for emergency dental treatment last year. These emergency hospital admissions are costing the NHS £13 million a year. · In South Staffordshire Primary Care Trust 150 people received emergency dental treatment in hospitals, costing the local NHS an estimated (£89,340). Most of this has to be borne by already over-stretched A&E departments. · This comes as the latest NHS figures show that 48% of the population across South Staffordshire PCT have not been seen by an NHS dentist in the last two years.
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Council Tax Cover-Up: New Evidence Of Serious Errors In Council Tax Bills |
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Tuesday, 30 June 2009 |
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Surge in council tax appeals in Tamworth reveals systematic over-charging by Government Gordon Brown and his Ministers are deliberately covering up serious problems over the banding of homes for council tax, Christopher Pincher, Tamworth’s Conservative Parliamentary Spokesman, warned this week. New figures have revealed that Whitehall’s council tax snoopers have been forced to redo the council tax bands of thousands of homes after appeals by householders across Tamworth and the country. |
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