On Wednesday 17th March, Devon Labour welcomed Labour’s Shadow Secretary of State for Education, Kate Green MP to a listening event about the quality of education in Devon. Chaired by Lisa Robillard Webb, Chair of Devon County Labour Party Forum, the panel also included local Labour Councillor Su Aves and National Education Union Regional Secretary Hannah Packham.
Over 40 attendees from across Devon, including educators and parents were present. Questions from participants covered a wide variety of topics such as provision for pupils with Special Educational Needs (SEN), forced...
East Devon District Council has updated and extended the Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs) page of the Sidmouth and East Beach Management Plan (BMP) section on the East Devon website to incorporate a number of recent developments within the scheme, which it was felt would be beneficial to the public to have further explanation.
The BMP FAQs are designed to help improve public understanding of the scheme and explain potentially complex concepts and terminology, as well as to provide background to the scheme to date and details of the parties involved.
People in Exeter are being given the chance to quiz councillors on any key issues for the city.
Exeter residents are invited to put forward questions to members of the joint County and City Councils' Exeter Board, at their next meeting on 17 February at 5:30pm at the Civic Centre in Paris Street.
The Board allocates 15 minutes for their ‘open forum’, with three minutes per speaker, with a maximum of three to four speakers to allow time for discussion.
Previously, residents have prompted debate about issues including street lighting, homelessness and waste collection...
An opportunity to meet with your MP, Ben Bradshaw, some Labour Councillors and local Labour Party members to ask questions about local, national and international issues.
This is a multi-cultural event, so it's for everybody, with people from black and ethnic minority backgrounds especially welcome.
The House of Lords Science and Technology Committee will next week take evidence from leading experts on heart disease, eye conditions and Parkinson's disease. They want to hear what questions most concern the public, using the social media website www.twitter.com
The Session is part of the Committee's inquiry into Regenerative Medicine and the Committee are asking the public to tweet questions using the hashtag #RegenMedQs by 2pm on Friday 26th October. The aim of the session is to help sift the hype from the reality when it comes to the prospects of regenerative medicine...
Exeter's MP Ben Bradshaw today took part in the questioning of the new BBC Director General, George Entwistle, about the BBC's handling of the Savile revelations. Mr Bradshaw, a former BBC reporter, has recently joined the Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee of the House of Commons and today's session was very high profile.
Ben Bradshaw asked the DG whether in the light of the Panorama special shown last night he agreed that the decision to drop the 2011 Newsnight documentary about Savile's activities was 'a catastrophic mistake' and why it had taken him three weeks to...
