Following on from the successful 'Embarrass Boris' protest on Friday 11 April we are now planning to take our signed petition to Mathew  Offord at his open surgery. Our West Hendon aims to fight for everyone in the West Hendon community who is adversly affected by the planned and current redevelopment.  Whether you are a freeholder, leaseholder, secure, non-secure or local business person if you believe West Hendon has a right to maintain its community

Is regeneration at any cost progress? Barnet Council approved planning application and has entered into an agreement with Barratt London and Metropolitan Housing Trust [Barratt Metropolitan] to knock down and regenerate the West Hendon Housing Estate. As anyone who has seen the estate knows it is in dire need of updating, but what not everyone knows is that this is because of Barnet Council’s lack of investment, failure to manage essential repairs

In association with BAPS, a new action group has been formed: BARNET HOUSING ACTION This is a response to the alarming situation where up to half a million tenants have now fallen into arrears and have to face the courts: largely as the direct result of the dreaded 'bedroom tax' and also the imposition of council tax on people who do not have enough to live on. So far this has affected 3000 Barnet citizens. Barnet council has not built any social

Celebrate your high street Come ready for fun! Bring a song, a poem or a tambourine, castanets or any other musical instrument if you are playing one, or just come and join the fun.  Bring a Christmas Bauble for our tree dressing.  Make some new year wishes, be they personal, local, national -- we will hang them on our decorated tree. Saturday 11 January 2014 1 -3 pm, meet 1 pm outside Caffe Nero on Station Road Edgware, opposite Edgware tube station.

  The North London People’s Assembly met at the Haringey Cypriot Centre in Wood Green on 26 October. The main room was packed: all seats occupied and people standing around the edges, which is always a good sign. The opening session started on time, with a welcome from Elaine Graham-Leigh, who outlined the plan for the day. The speakers in the opening session were Andy Bain of Islington Hands Off Our Public Services (IHOOPS); Owen Jones, the

The Barnet Alliance for Public Services supports the actions of teachers and their unions in protecting their terms and conditions now and in the future. Support for teachers means support for education, our children, our community, our society. We stand with you in solidarity.

Anita Woolf is the mother of Carl Woolf, who is a user of one of the Your Choice Barnet day centres, Barnet Independent Living Service (BILS); she contacted CADDSS via this website recently following a CADDSS letter in the local press.  BILS is designated for closure and the centre is to be demolished in 2016, with no plan by Barnet council or Your Choice Barnet to move the service or rehouse the service users. Read here Anita's and Carl's letters

The Campaign Against Destruction of Disabled Support Services (CADDSS) welcomes the appointment of the new Care Quality Commission chief inspector Andrea Sutcliffe. CADDSS congratulates Ms Sutcliffe on her clear views about the way to ensure good quality care services and hopes that her appointment will provide an opportunity for the CQC to look again at the most effective way of safeguarding vulnerable people. CADDSS hopes that the new chief inspector

A fundraising benefit for the Barnet Alliance for Public Services (BAPS): To celebrate Maria Nash who carried the torch for Barnet residents and fought a Judicial Review against Barnet council to try and stop the ruin of our community, To celebrate the Barnet community that is coming together to keep on the fight for our local democracy and livelihood, To celebrate The Griffin, that became another local pub accessible for disabled wheelchair users.

Following a recent incident when a person attending a day centre for people with learning disabilities fell down a manhole, members of CADDSS, a local group campaigning on behalf of disabled people in Barnet wrote to the Care Quality Commission and were shocked to discover from them that this statutory regulatory body has no brief to inspect or monitor day centres for people with learning disabilities in spite of their website saying 'we check a