Blog Posts

  • Budget

    The Cabinet Paper setting out the Council’s budget Plan proposals is now being printed ready for release tomorrow. This is not a light document having over 500 pages. Tomorrow morning my Cabinet and I will be briefing all County Councillors on our budget proposals. This is different to previous years when officers have briefed members. Read more

  • Judgement

    A Conservative was walking along a knife edge cliff with a labour councillor and a Lib Dem councillor. He was asked which one would he would push off first? The obvious answer was the Lib Dem. Wrong. Business before pleasure so Labour first. 🙂 Read more

  • Chief Exec and Leader in prison

    Not a heading I would want to see very often!!!! Yesterday Mark and I went to meet the new Governor and some of his senior team at Littlehey Prison and Youth Offender Institute near Grafham Water. We managed to get in, avoid breaking any of the rules and get out again without incedent. Good news Read more

  • Cabinet today

    What a great start to Cabinet today. We had a petition from Megan Carnie who was concerned about the speed of traffic in her local area. What was amazing was she was only 13 yet spoke confidently and clearly. When I spoke to her and her dad before the meeting started she told me she Read more

  • Cash boost for winter warmth work in Cambridgeshire

    When I met Andrew Lansley, for one of our regular meetings, it was great to be told we were to get some cash to deal with the cold weather. A bid for government cash to help keep people safe and warm in their own home this winter has won more than £200,000 to ensure vulnerable Read more

  • Cash to help get people out of hospital quicker

    Adult Social Care Services in Cambridgeshire have been given a £1.5 million Government boost towards efforts to reduce delayed discharges from hospitals in the county. The Department of Health has announced a one-off £150 million grant to Primary Care Trusts in England, for immediate transfer to local authorities for investment in social services which also Read more