Thursday 22 December 2011

What will Cheshire East do now?

The final Petition held signatures of 6507 people. It was presented to Cllr Roger West, Mayor of Cheshire East on Thursday 15 December 2011, at Congleton Town Hall. During the subsequent Full Council Meeting, as an explanation of the Petition was being given, the Mayor thought it good practice to heckle, within the allowed five minute slot. In doing that, he was effectively heckling the opinions of many Cheshire East Council taxpayers.

They signed to say:

S – O – S  - Save our Stanley Centre

We the undersigned

Petition Cheshire East Council & East Cheshire Hospital Trust:

SAVE OUR SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE

 –

KEEP OUR SERVICES LOCAL

Keep OUR Stanley Centre for Disabled Adults
Return OUR Dementia Care Services
Return OUR Intermediate Hospital Ward
KAFKA Office, Holly House, Middlewich  Rd, Allostock, Knutsford WA16 9JX
PLACE of collection
NUMBER collected
Allostock
    59
Congleton
  182
Cranage
  128
Crewe
    67
Goostrey
  124
Holmes Chapel
  422
Knutsford
3081
Lower Peover
      8
Macclesfield
    50
Middlewich
  108
Mobberley
    82
Northwich
    23
Over Peover
    20
Parkgate
  433
Plumley
      4
Sandbach
  995
Toft
  258
Wilmslow
    38
Winsford
  149
Online
    59
Total
6290
Plus Stanley Centre Petition
   217  = 6507
Place names above refer to the places where the signatures were collected. There is an even split between Knutsford and the rest of Cheshire East and its borders, with 59 collected online.
Numbers above refer to signatures collected by Carers and other volunteers, across Cheshire East during the period
14 October 2011- 14 December 2011




They were collected from:

the Knutsford area - in excess of 3000
from towns and villages across Cheshire East and on its borders - in excess of 3000

from a Service user and his family - 217 signatures in respect of The Stanley Centre alone

This three part petition seems to have had the effect that Cheshire East has no idea what to do with it.

This is not a new Council. It is only following on from our historic Cheshire County Council, using the remnants of that body's web site, and that body's officers.

The petition clearly shows that many people refuse to accept that the vulnerable should be shunted about. So why did Cheshire East get it so wrong - and where is our democracy?

Friday 18 November 2011

Online Petition to: Keep OUR Services Local

YOU can now sign our petition online.


Please encourage anyone local to Knutsford Area/Cheshire East
to sign this Petition to:
S - O - S - Save Our Stanley Centre
We, the undersigned
Petition Cheshire East Council and East Cheshire Hospital Trust:
SAVE OUR SOCIAL AND HEALTH CARE - KEEP OUR SERVICES LOCAL
Keep OUR Stanley Centre for Disabled Adults
Return OUR Dementia Care Services
Return OUR Intermediate Hospital Ward

Knutsford Town Council Health and Social Care Work Group will be Reporting on its work at Knutsford Town Council Meeting on 05 December 2011 at 7pm. This meeting welcomes the public. It has two Question Times for Members of the Public - 10 minutes at the start and 5 minutes at the end..
This is your Democracy. Do turn up and take part.

PLEASE LOOK AT THE PAGES ON THE RIGHT OF THE SCREEN >>>>


The Petition now has in excess of 3000 signatures. It looks likely that he final figure - when all forms are gathered in, will be 4000+
It will be presented to
Cheshire East Full Council Meeting
2pm - 15 December 2011
Congleton Town Hall
KAFKA would very much welcome all members of the public who wish to show support at this meeting
To check that here is no alteration to the Date-Time-Venue perhaps you might ring:

Cheshire East Information: 0300 123 5500

We state this because several Committee Meetings including the 05 December Cabinet Committee meeting have already been cancelled during December



IF YOU ARE NOT OLD, ILL, LEARNING DISABLED OR A CARER OF ANY SUCH GROUP, THIS STILL AFFECTS
YOU.
STROKE, ACCIDENT, DEMENTIA, ANY OF US COULD FACE THAT.
WHERE WOULD OUR DAY CARE BE?
Congleton if we live in Crewe? Crewe if we live in Knutsford?
Macclesfield if we live in Nantwich?

Day Care NEEDS to be LOCAL

Wednesday 16 November 2011

Beanfeast of Councillors on our Council Tax

14 November 2011
This 'special meeting was to 'make Aldermen'. Seven of them - having given service to the pubic were 'honoured' by being 'damned with faint praise', at The Lyceum Theatre in Crewe.

Acting on the Lyceum stage, was dire. There were seven people, who might well have been a credt to thir community, but it would have been difficult for any member of the public to tell. Luckily, there were only two members of the public witnessing these proceedings. which I understand were held at public expense, with full expenses paid to all councillors.

The fact that this 'beanfeast' occurred when adults with learning difficulties are being flunng from their safe Stanley Centre in Knutsford, does Cheshire East Council no credit at all.

Saturday 22 October 2011

Knutsford Update

Please read the pages listed at the right side of this blog.

Postings will now be updates on our campaign.

Numerous shops and businesses around Knutsford - listed below - have petitions for the public to sign (just once please)
Co op
Mannings chemist
Knutsford art and stationery house
Oxfam - staff only
Jax hair salon
Waitrose - staff only
Knutsford Dry Cleaners
Olde Sweete Shoppe
Bellissimo Frame Shop
Menudel Giorna
Hallmark Card Shop
No 89 Cake & Coffee Shop
Terence Paul Hairdressing
Boots
Rose & Crown Pub
Mozimo
Facets
Housegifts and Interiors
Cherry Tree
Cheshire Building Society - staff only
Knutsford Bloom
The Black Rose
Auto Den
The Shell Garage
Mr Chips
Esso Garage, Toft

AgeUK
Waterstones
Heritage Centre
Technotype
Sue Ryder
Edwards Electric Shop
Café on the Corner
The Angel pub


Mr Edwin Booth of Booths Store has also agreed.

There are many other groups and businesses around Knutsford which have also taken Petitions.

Signatures are coming thick and fast at The Shell Garage, the  Co-op, and Mannings Chemist, with a steady flow in other areas.

We are getting about very regularly to Cheshire East Committees and full Council Meetings, to ask questions and point out that local people need local services.

We are attending PCT Cluster Meetings to ask questions.

We are stating that there should be cross-border working, both across the County Borders and across the artificial boundaries between social care and health.

More will follow.