National Award for Craven CVS
Craven CVS (Craven Community Voluntary Service) has just been awarded a
national Quality Award.
The National Association of Voluntary Community Action's Quality Award is a national independent endorsement of the
services provided by Craven CVS. Working across the whole of Craven
district Craven CVC provides support to community, voluntary and charitable
organisations in terms of funding and financial advice, governance (setting up
and running local groups and organisations) and training.
To gain this award Craven CVS had
to demonstrate that its support makes a real difference to voluntary and
community organisations in their area. The
rigorous assessment process involves an external audit and interviews with
service users and funders.
Andy Glen, Chairman of Craven CVS, said
‘ We look forward to maintaining the high standards required to achieve
this prestigious award and look forwards to using the NAVCA Quality Award with
pride.’
The award is assessed against five standards all of which Craven CVS
achieved:
• Supporting the identification of
needs in local communities and facilitating provision to meet those needs
• Assisting voluntary organisations
and community groups to function more effectively and deliver quality services
• Facilitating effective
communications, networking and collaboration among local voluntary
organisations and community groups
• Enabling the diverse views of the
local sector to be represented and supporting structures which promote
effective cross-sector partnership working
• Ensuring the third sector’s role as
an integral part of the local planning and policy making
Men live longer than the national average in Craven, North Yorkshire.
Life expectancy at birth is a good measure of overall health and is similar to All Age All Cause Mortality. During 2008-2010, the average life expectancy for males in Craven was 80.2 and females 84.2, significantly higher than the national averages of 78.6 and 82.6 and shows a rising trend 41. The gap between male and female life expectancy has narrowed considerably since 1993 though females can still expect to live around four years longer than males in Craven.
To see a full copy of the North Yorkshire JSNA report (Craven summery) follow the link below.
Scaling up is not always the best Research project will encourage new approach to public service design and will tackle the problem of diseconomies of scale.  Small is beautiful when it comes to locality. Photograph: Hattie Spray/PA It is surely not unreasonable that even those with no background or interest in public sector commissioning and procurement understand that dealing with citizens is different to manufacturing pins. Despite the obvious difference, there remains one overriding principle that commonly informs our approaches to both. To produce anything efficiently, at the best price and to deliver quality, it must be done at scale. The idea of universally achievable economies of scale is deeply ingrained. It is alarming that this thinking so completely dominates the design and management of service delivery at all levels of the public sector in the 21st century – and yet often it simply isn't true. Why, in the current climate, do we tolerate services that are remote, provide less impact and cost more? The answer, at least in part, is because our mind is closed to the very idea that disaggregation might be more cost-effective. Perceived inefficiencies almost always seem to lead to strategies based on a further tier of aggregation, scale and management control, often to a point where inefficiencies become so opaque that they become desperately difficult to address, even as they become more apparent to the rest of us. As we do this we also drive out the plurality of supply and local multipliers that are widely recognised as vital for high performance in public sector spend. It is for these reasons that Locality is working with Professor John Seddon of Vanguard Consulting on a research project with major policy implications, that will challenge some of the widely held assumptions that in our view lead to diseconomies of scale. Locality members have reported endless examples of diseconomies of scale, from youth services to legal aid services to mental health interventions, through to employability schemes like the Work Programme. Reports relate particularly to areas of complex social need, where solutions would be better found by responding to particular individual needs rather than one size fits all approach. Through our research we plan to develop an evidence base which we hope will encourage a new approach to public service decision-making. An ambitious aim? Certainly. But it's not just us making this argument. In 2008, Nesta ran its Big Green Challenge, designed to stimulate community-led responses to climate change. In its 2010 publication,Mass Localism, reflecting on the success of the challenge and the importance of innovation and diversity, Nesta said the government should resist the temptation to scale successful community innovation and should instead enable local innovation to flourish. This is a fundamentally different way of conceiving the design and delivery of services. The more complex the social problems, the more important it is to design services in such a way that deep value relationships can be formed between service providers and users. More accessible, responsive and embedded provision can then deliver stronger and more cost effective outcomes and impacts. In early discussions about the research, one leader from the voluntary sector said our work sounded interesting, but added that "it almost sounds as if you are going to argue against one of the immutable laws of economics". We would argue that the idea economies of scale is not an immutable law when applied to the delivery of services. Things can become more expensive when you do them at scale because management costs often multiply rather than divide. Our research project to investigate these assertions and is expected to be completed by spring 2013. Neil Berry is the head of enterprise at Locality. This article is published by Guardian Professional. +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
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Sign the 38 Degree Petition
Don't delay act today |
Here is some HUGE good news: more
than 100,000 of us have signed local petitions asking doctors to use their
powers to save local NHS services.
It’s already working. City
and Hackney CCG, in London, have said they’ll adopt 38 Degrees safeguards
into their constitution. They've agreed to put their patients
first, and use their new powers to prevent local health services being
damaged by privatisation.
Now we need to repeat this success in other places. The
first step is getting thousands more signatures on local petitions to show
doctors we’ll back them if they protect the NHS.
Please forward this message to at least three friends and
family living in England, and ask them to add their name here:
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/CCG-petition
The doctors on local CCGs will be under pressure from the government to hand
out contracts to private companies. That could put vital services at risk.
[1] But the last thing most doctors want is to carve up our NHS for private
profit. Plus, the new CCGs have a legal duty to listen to local people. [2]
If we can get in early, while CCGs are still being formed, we can give
doctors a better choice - one based on sound legal advice and the interests
of patients, not private companies.
There are hundreds of thousands of us who care about the future of our health
service. Can you
forward this email to friends and family who want to protect our NHS and ask
them to click here to join in now? If you haven’t already signed up then do
so now! The NHS is ours, let’s keep it that way.
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/CCG-petition
The success in Hackney
is a huge step forward for two reasons:
1. It proves our
campaign can work - if we can win over local doctors in
Hackney, we can win over the local doctors taking decisions about your local
health services too.
2. It boosts our
chances of winning everywhere else - it's always a bit harder
to persuade someone to be the first to do something. Now that City and
Hackney CCG have taken the plunge, it should be a little easier to persuade
doctors everywhere else.
If it can work in Hackney, then it can work elsewhere too. Please can you add your name to the
petition to your local doctors now?
https://secure.38degrees.org.uk/CCG-petition
Thanks for being involved,
Becky, James, Marie and the 38 Degrees team
NOTES
[1] “...plans for a radical restructuring of the health service in England,
which will give GPs control of much of the NHS's £106bn annual budget, cut
the number of health bodies, and introduce more competition into services”
Guardian: NHS Reform Health bill passes vote http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/mar/20/nhs-reform-health-bill-passes-vote
BBC: NHS - The shape of things to come http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-17457102
[2] Telegraph: Scrap NHS Bill, say doctors who will run reforms http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/healthnews/9112448/Scrap-NHS-Bill-say-doctors-who-will-run-reforms.html
Pulse: More GP commissioners withdraw support from health bill
http://www.pulsetoday.co.uk/newsarticle-content/-/article_display_list/13604675/more-gp-commissioners-withdraw-support-from-health-bill
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13
September 2012
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Health, Adult Social Care and Ageing Bulletin
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 Dear
Colleague,
Welcome to the tenth edition of the Health, Adult Social Care and Ageing
Bulletin. The bulletin provides details on our work across the health,
adult social care and ageing sectors.
The return of Parliament from recess has been simultaneous with the first
meetings of the LGA's boards for the 2012/13 period. The first meeting of
the Community Wellbeing board was on 5 September. At this meeting we
reconfirmed our long-held priorities in adult social care reform, and
meeting the challenges of public health reforms, along with the
importance and potential for integration and commissioning across public
health, social care and beyond.
Following the Government's ministerial reshuffle, LGA officers and
members of the Community Wellbeing board will also be ensuring that your
councils' views, experiences and successes continue to be shared with
them as we establish productive working relationships with the new
ministerial team in the Department of Health and with partners in the
other government ministries.
The 'Show us you care' campaign for the reform of adult social care
remains the LGA's top campaigning priority and we are pleased to announce
that the National
Children and Adult Social Care Conference, which takes place 24-26
October, will be attended by the new Minister for Care Services, Norman
Lamb MP. I hope you are able to join us in Eastbourne.
Work has also continued over the summer in response to the Government's
publication of the Children and young people's health outcomes report, as
part of our commitment to work with councils to help them take a leading
role in improving health and wellbeing outcomes for children and young
people. Further detail on the LGA's response is contained within the
bulletin proper.
Our autumn series of public health events will continue over the next few
weeks with events on Local
Healthwatch (4 October) and Workplace Health
(11 October), which are just two of the areas where effective action by
local authorities can really make a difference to the quality of service
provided to the public and directly influence public health outcomes.
A small number of tickets also remain for our event on 24 September 2012
– Doing the
Duty – using the Equality Framework to make evidence-based decisions,
of interest for all those responsible for allocating resources in this
time of squeezed budgets.
Please do feel free to email me at david.rogers@local.gov.uk
with your suggestions and contributions.
Councillor David Rogers OBE
Chairman, LGA Community Wellbeing Board
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Social care white paper survey
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As part of our social care campaign we've launched a
short survey which asks for your views on whether the Government's
white paper will deliver. We would encourage you to take the survey
which judges the paper against the tests we set out earlier in the year
in our ripe for reform publication.
Take the survey
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Consultation on JSNA and JHWS strategy guidance launched
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The Department of Health (DH) have launched their draft
guidance on duties for Health and Wellbeing Boards (HWBs) around the
joint strategic needs assessment (JSNA) and the Joint Health and
Wellbeing Strategy (JHWS.)
Please email Tom
Shakespeare by Monday 17 September 2012 if you would like to feed
into our response.
Read the guidance
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Public health funding
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Following the LGA Executive discussion on finance, we
submitted our response to the proposed distribution formula for public
health funding to local government. We will continue to lobby hard for
a greater quantum of resource to enable local government to invest in
public health and preventative strategies and for a more equitable
distribution formula.
Read the LGA response
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Health protection in local government
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The DH has published provisional guidance on health
protection arrangements in the new public health system for local
authorities and public health professionals.
Read the guidance
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Consultation on the arrangements for consideration of
proposals on the fluoridation of drinking water
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The DH is consulting on the process local authorities
will use to conduct consultations on fluoridation of drinking water. We
are not consulting on the benefits or disadvantages of fluoridation.
This consultation document is an opportunity for the DH to obtain the
views of local authorities, NHS commissioners, public health
professionals, service providers, equality representatives and all
other interested parties on the future arrangements for consulting on
proposals for fluoridation schemes.
Read the consultation
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Developing effective Healthwatch organisations
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The DH, Healthwatch England and the LGA are
collaborating in the provision of support to local authorities to help
ensure that arrangements are put in place that enable their local
Healthwatch organisations to perform and deliver to a high standard. It
is hoped that this document will help local authorities both to
commission local Healthwatch organisations and review how well their
local Healthwatch delivers its roles and responsibilities. It can also
help emerging potential local Healthwatch organisations understand what
is expected of them and how they can develop to meet current best
practice.
Read our Developing effective local Healthwatch publication
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Faith and belief in partnership
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Religious and belief issues have become increasingly
significant for councils and their partners in recent years, in part
due to the inclusion of 'religion and belief' in the Equality Act as
well as Government agendas on partnership, community empowerment and
preventing violent extremism. This report summarises key strategies and
methods of effective partnership and engagement adopted by councils and
faith and humanist partners in four case study areas across England:
Watford, Barnet, Leicester and Pendle. It is primarily aimed at
councils and faith and belief groups with an interest in working
together, but will also be of relevance to voluntary and community sector
organisations and other statutory partners.
Read our Faith and belief in partnership document
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Healthwatch support and development offer
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LGA is leading the implementation of Local Healthwatch
and has a programme of activities funded by DH planned to support local
authorities prepare for local Healthwatch throughout 2012 or 2013. The
programme of support consists of regional and national events,
masterclasses, peer support, briefings, best practice guides, an online
forum for commissioners and bespoke support based on needs identified
by our regional support officers.
Visit out Healthwatch pages
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A quick guide to local government for health commissioners
and providers
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Local government can sometimes be a little difficult to
get to grips with from the outside. Our revised guide to local
government provides health partners with a clear and succinct guide to
the role and scope of local government. We hope that this will help our
existing and new health partners have a better understanding of how we
can work together in the new landscape for health improvement.
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Children and young people's health outcomes forum report
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The independent report of the Children and young
people's health outcomes forum has been published, the report is the
first phase in the new Children and Young People's Health Outcomes
strategy. The Government is due to publish its response to the report in
September.
The LGA view is broadly supportive of the report and we are committed
to working with Government and other stakeholders to explore the impact
of the recommendations for local authorities, particularly with regards
to funding. We share the forum’s concerns about safeguarding and call
for urgent publication of the accountability framework for safeguarding
to ensure the health sector understands and adequately discharges it
safeguarding duties.
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Children and Young People's health factsheets
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A set of factsheets to help local authorities, HWBs,
school governors and commissioners meet the health needs of local
children and young people and involve children, young people and their
families in healthcare decisions has been published as part of the
independent report of the Children and young people's health outcomes
forum.
The forum asked key stakeholders including the LGA to promote the
factsheets to support wider understanding of the issues, in response we
have made the full set of factsheets available on our dedicated
children's health webpage.
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Party conferences 2012
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The LGA will once again be hosting a reception at each
of the party conferences, kindly sponsored by CCLA’s Public Sector
Deposit Fund.
Read more about the LGA's involvement in Party Conferences
In addition, we have secured a number of platforms for lead members to
discuss key policy issues on behalf of the sector. Details of these
events, along with information on the LGA receptions at each
conference, can be found on our website.
If you have any queries, please get in contact with Tom: thomas.coales@local.gov.uk
or Jess: jessica.thrift@local.gov.uk
in our corporate public affairs team.
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Launch of community covenants guide
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The Royal British Legion will be launching their 'Best
Practice Guide to Community Covenants' at the 2012 party conferences.
If you are an elected member and would be interested in attending the
Royal British Legion's launch reception, which is being held at each of
the three major party conferences, please contact Tom Coales: Thomas.coales@local.gov.uk
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Local
Healthwatch – Building a strong consumer champion in health and social
care
4 October 2012
| London
Over the past year, at every stage, the role of local government in
shaping local health priorities has become stronger. The Health and
Social Care Act 2012 places local government at the centre of ensuring
our communities receive the care they deserve. Together with new
responsibilities for public health and health and wellbeing boards, it
requires councils to commission a new, local, consumer champion for
health and social care called Healthwatch.
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Healthy
workforce, healthy communities: How can councils improve the health and
wellbeing of their employees as well as their customers?
11 October 2012
| London
Health improvement is a key component in the Government's agenda for
change – to reduce the heavy financial and social burden of avoidable
ill-health and premature death and to change the relationship between
citizens and state. For the first time in a generation, local
government is to take lead responsibility for health improvement and
public health.
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National
Children and Adult Services Conference 2012
26 October 2012
| Eastbourne
This event is vital to councillors, directors, senior officers,
directors of public health, policy makers and services managers with
responsibilities for children's services and adult care in the
statutory, voluntary and private sectors. It is also an important
opportunity for partners in health, schools and related fields as well
as education, MPs with an interest in social care, children's services,
and education.
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Efficiency savings alone will not fix care crisis
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Cllr David Rogers, Chairman of the LGA's Community
Wellbeing Board responds to the Audit Commission's report looking at
value for money in adult social care
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Contact us
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Local Government House
Smith Square
London, SW1P 3HZ
Email:
info@local.gov.uk
Telephone:
020 7664 3000
Fax:
020 7664 3030
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NAVCA have produced a new Comissioning Guide for Trusttees called "At Your Bidding" . The document is a guide for charity trustees about commissioning and tendering for public services, published in partnership with the Local Government Association.
At a time of significant change within the public sector, the guide aims to:
- Provide some context about the commissioning of public services so that trustees can understand the potential implications and impact of commissioning at a strategic level on their charity
- Outline the issue to consider and the decisions that trustees have to make regarding bidding for service contracts
- Describe the steps that trustees need to take to make sure their organisation is tender and contract ready
- Draw attention to key areas for risk assessment and risk management
- Signpost to other useful publications, reources and sources of information and advice
This publication is not a detailed technical manual on how to tender. The focus is squarely on the key issues that individuals need to be aware of in fulfilling their duties as charity trustees.
NAVCA's Local Commissioning and Procurement Unit
At Your Bidding was produced by NAVCA'a Local Commissioning and Procurement Unit, which exists to help local suport and development organisations. They work with trustees, senior officers and development workersand help organisations understand the new commissioning and procurement landscape, and prepare frontline groups for the challenges ahead.
The team provides practical information, advice and guidance to help local oluntary organisations and community groups engage with commissioning and procurement - whether this involves contributing to an understanding of communnity needs, shaping the design of services or winning and delivering contracts.
Find the latest publications, policy and research analysis at www.navca.org.uk/lcpu |
posted 18 Oct 2011 07:34 by Milton CravenCVS
Craven CVS has launched a training programme to meet the needs of groups in Craven. All the courses are reasonably priced (from £10) and we have brought in many of the trainers. To view full details of the courses, or to book visit http://cravencvs.eventbrite.com. Or for an overview of the programme, see the flier below. |
posted 13 Oct 2011 05:52 by Milton Pearson
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Earlier this year the Strategic Health Authority commissioned an independent review of health services in North Yorkshire and York, to make recommendations for the future commissioning of services within a sustainable financial framework to ensure future financial balance. NYYF was a member of the Independent Commission.
The report, which will be of interest to all organisations working in health and social care, was published on the13th of October. A full copy is available to view or download below.
The strategic recommendations from the review are:
• Redesign the model of care so that patients are treated according to their level of need.
• Reduce hospital inpatient beds, while increasing activity.
• Make efficiency savings and increase productivity in every sector.
• Shift care from the hospital to the community sector, and significantly develop community services (health and social care).
• Introduce strategic planning to improve integration within primary care, and between primary care, secondary care, community services (health and social care), mental health, and public health. These services will also need to integrate with the voluntary and private sectors.
• Create more responsive provision by encouraging innovation by new and existing providers.
There are also specific recommendations relating to a stronger role for voluntary sector providers in contributing to integrated provision of community and primary care services, mental health services and preventative work.
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posted 3 May 2011 05:26 by Milton CravenCVS
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Position: Community Development
Officer / Rural Network
Liaison Officer
Location: Craven
Salary: £24,646 pro rata
An exciting new project funded by the National
Lottery through the Big Lottery Fund has created six posts for experienced
Community Development professionals across North Yorkshire.
Opportunities
like this don’t come along very often. We are looking for a special individual,
who can develop, deliver and establish a sustainable voice and network for the
voluntary and community sector (VCS) in Craven in partnership with colleagues
across North Yorkshire. Using your outstanding communication,
interpersonal and organisational skills, you will connect, coordinate and work
with VCS groups and be part of a small team of project workers in the rural
network. With experience of project
involvement, successful partnership working and a good knowledge of community
development work, you will also have IT and report writing skills. So, if you
have the confidence, motivation and experience to improve the support services
for rural VCS organisations and can increase their sustainable representation
this exciting and varied role could be for you.
The
role is based in the Craven district.
Closing date: 17th of May
Interviews
w/c: 23 of May Update: 4/5/11 11:45am application form and Project info sheet replaced due to errors in the originals
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posted 6 Mar 2011 02:46 by Milton CravenCVS
Following
up the event on 1 March, NYCC have just published:
Investing in a Voluntary Sector Essential Locality Service Menu
This draft framework, much of which will be subject to a three month discussion
with the voluntary sector, will be the basis of financial investment decisions
and commissioning and decommissioning decision in North Yorkshire's Voluntary
Sector 2011‐2015 by Adult and Community Services (ACS) |
posted 6 Mar 2011 02:41 by Milton CravenCVS
Voluntary groups in York and North Yorkshire heard today that NHS
North Yorkshire and York has decided not to implement proposed funding
cuts to the sector The NHS North Yorkshire and York are now able to
reinstate the funding that was to be withdrawn for this year from the
voluntary sector organisations. This means organisations will receive
their agreed annual funding up to the end of March 2011. This news was greeted with relief by Milton Pearson Chief Executive Officer of Craven CVS, who said "it
is now likely that no groups will close down altogether. We are pleased
that the PCT is meeting with us as a matter of urgency to discuss
funding arrangements for the next financial year, as it is crucial that
local charities can plan their work and staffing arrangements for
2011-12, to prevent as little disruption to services as possible". We
are particularly relieved that services to the most vulnerable groups,
including those at risk of HIV/Aids and those receiving counselling, can
continue. If the voluntary sector is to be a key partner in
enabling local authorities and the health service to deliver the
government’s Big Society vision, then we need to have some certainty
over our future funding arrangements. “ Further to the above
Milton Pearson expressed his thanks to the North Yorkshire MPs for their
support in this matter, and in particular Julian Smith MP who raised a
question in the House of Commons on the issue. |
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