Councillor David Minchella, Liberal Democrat Councillor of Bishopsgarth and Elm Tree on Stockton Council said, in in response to the Education Policy Institute's Annual Report on access to child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS),
The Liberal Democrats have announced that they will move more than 9,000 members of staff out of the Home Office, under the party's plans to strip the discredited department of responsibility for immigration and asylum.
The Liberal Democrats will invest £11 billion in transforming mental health services, more than either Labour or the Tories, analysis by the party has found.
Responding to Tory policies on knife crime, Brendan Devlin, the Liberal Democrat candidate for Stockton South, says 'We asked the Tories to cut crime, instead they cut police numbers'. He continued, 'The government pledge another 20,000 police officers, but forces lost over 21,000 officers in the last 8 years, this pledge isn't more it is just putting back what they took away. Only the Liberal Democrats will invest in the things that actually work to build safer communities: more community policing, more youth services and a proper public health approach to serious violence
Today is Small Business Saturday, and Brendan Devlin has expressed deep concern on how Tory policies and a looming Brexit have been, and could be, affecting local small businesses.
Brendan Devlin, Liberal Democrat candidate for Stockton South has condemned the rise in rough sleeping throughout the UK, and has deep concerns about both rough sleeping and also those who have no permanent roof over their heads in Stockton.
