BOOK YOUR PLACE NOW. The shortage of social and truly affordable housing is one of the most pressing problems facing our communities. Is council housing the answer to the crisis? What can councils do to tackle the housing shortage? What should Londoners expect? What’s the solution: housing associations? housing co-ops? mutuals? self-builds? Must regeneration be gentrification? Come to this open forum to discuss with other members of the

  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.’

The Sustainable Communities Act A learning session with Amenah Anayat of Local Works. http://www.localworks.org/ The Sustainable Communities Act is a radical piece of legislation that may allow communities and councils to work together to reverse local communities decline. Find out how we can utilise and benefit from this new law, and how we can determine what the government and the council do to regenerate our community and our local economy for

  Barnet Alliance for Public Services PRESS RELEASE - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 16 July 2013 After one and a half days in the court of appeal Master of the Rolls Lord Dyson, Lord Justice Davies and Lady Justice Gloster retired to consider their judgment in the case of Nash v Barnet. After urging by Barnet counsel, the Master of the Rolls said they will try to deliver their judgment by the end of September, but did not guarantee it. Mr Nigel Giffin

The very core of our local democracy is under threat! - Azi Khatiri "we can get round the law" - Barbara Jacobson No more cuts! - Julian Silverman You have been had… - Theresa Musgrove What about a second opinion? - John Dix You confirmed my worst fears about privatisation and outsourcing - Tirza Waisel The very core of our local democracy is under threat! Azi Khatiri I would like to begin by reminding you all that being a councillor means you

  Janet Leifer letter  in response to Cllr. Cornelius letter to the Press. Yet to be published.   Dear Sir, I feel I must respond to the letter from Richard Cornelius concerning outsourcing of service provision and Your Choice that was published in The Press of 13 June. The Campaign Against the Destruction of Disabled Support Services, CADDSS for short grew from a letter written by me and published in the local press in the Spring of 2011

Barnet Residents campaign for outsourced social care services provided by Your Choice Barnet to be brought back in house. The Campaign Against the Destruction of Disabled Support Services (CADDSS for short) has been set up by Barnet residents to protest against deteriorating social care provision in the London Borough of Barnet. At the moment CADDSS is focusing on the plight of severely disabled adults facing drastic changes to their social care,

Questions need to be asked – why is it that a resident had no other choice but to apply for Judicial Review in an attempt to save her own and her neighbours' future? Who is to blame for this? And how will a council that refused to engage in meaningful consultation with its residents pay the cost of its follies, a cost that could have so easily been avoided if they only had listened? Cllr Cornelius will say ‘costs will be paid for by cuts to services'.

Find here the dates and places of actions we plan for the next few months. Click on the month for a downloadable calendar. September * October * November * December To join us on any of these actions email [email protected] or just turn up.

We are asking Barnet residents to contact their councillors about the One Barnet programme. * What does your councillor think of the One Barnet programme? * Will your councillor help you to defeat it? (That is assuming that you have made up your mind yourself!) * Will your councillor support a debate in the council chamber on the issue (no, there hasn't been one yet)? Go to meet your councillor and find out. Don't know which ward you belong to or