Barnet Alliance for Public Services FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    14 July 2014   ‘No rogue landlords in Barnet Council’, ‘Immorality in the mayoralty’   On Tuesday,15 July, at 6pm Barnet Alliance for Public Services will demonstrate outside Hendon Town Hall before the full council meeting, calling for the resignation of Mayor Hugh Rayner. They will be expressing the views of the 86% of Barnet residents who responded to a survey in the

Campaign Against the Destruction of Disabled Support Services & Barnet Alliance For Public Services PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2 June 2014 Support the dedicated workers who care for our vulnerable children and fellow residents The Campaign Against the Destruction of Disabled Support Services (CADDSS) and Barnet Alliance support Your Choice Barnet Care Workers decision to vote for strike action Since Barnet Council transferred Learning

Barnet Alliance for Public Services FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE    25 May 2014 Barnet Alliance for Public Services, like Barnet Bloggers Mrs Angry, Mr Reasonable, Mr Mustard and the Barnet Eye, did everything in their power to inform the residents of Barnet of the current and future impact of the disastrous policies of the Conservative Party. In a climate where nationally the three major parties supported privatisation and cuts, we knew that we were

New video released today 7 May 2014 highlights the grim reality of life under One Barnet Tory regime, only two weeks before our chance to replace the Conservatives with a more humane council, on the 22 May local elections. Read BAPS press release here. Watch on YouTube And here are the lyrics of the song.

The first of four public meetings hosted by Barnet Alliance for Public Services in the run up to the local elections on 22 of May this year will be held on Wednesday, 22 January, at The Larches, 1 Rectory Lane, Edgware. Councillor Alison Moore, Leader of the Barnet Labour Party, Councillor Jack Cohen, Leader of the Barnet LibDems, and Andrew Newby, Chair of the Barnet Green Party, will be on the panel to answer questions from local residents in 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.

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

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

CADDSS (Campaign Against Destruction of Disabled Support Services) welcomed the creation of the Task and Finish Group of councillors to review services provided by Your Choice Barnet to adults with severe disabilities.  However, CADDSS was very disappointed that the Task and Finish Group made no effort to contact service users or their carers to ask them about their experience of using services provided by Your Choice Barnet. Read the latest press

  Barnet Alliance for Public Services PRESS RELEASE – FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 30 August 2013     R.I.P. Barnet Public Services – Residents mourn the takeover by Capita   ‘People in Barnet are dismayed at the Council’s massive outsourcing not only without consultation,’ says BAPS spokesperson Barbara Jacobson, ‘but especially in the light of continuing news about the failure of the private sector in delivering public services.’