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Successes from work on the Devolution Bill – my letter to ministers on the remaining need for duties for new Mayors

My work on the English Devolution and Community Empowerment Bill won some success. The Government made changes based on my amendments during committee stage that added access to clean air and green spaces to the work new Mayors must do on health, and also helped save councils that use more collaborative committee systems of governance from having to change to top-down leader and cabinet models. I am very pleased to have won these changes and my letter thanks minister Miatta Fahnbulleh for listening to the evidence and to the campaigners

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All Our Children: Manifesto for a universal early years future

Siân and former leader of the Women’s Equality Party, Mandu Reid, set out the case for a future withuniversal childcare, provided free at the point of use, for every child and parent. If it takes a village to raise a child, then the welfare and ability to thrive of all our children is the responsibility of all of us to get right. The interviews for the case studies included in the report were carried out by Verena Schneider.

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