Extra funding for the council to combat housing benefit fraud in the self-employment sector which has seen rapid growth since 2011. Oldham is to receive the second highest rate of new government funding in Greater…
Local MP Debbie Abrahams Twitter account has endless tweets about the benefits system and failures as a consequence of the Governments ill thought out universal credit system. What she most definitely is not obsessed with…
Good to see Oldham leading the way again this time it is the number of hostilities committed against fire and rescue personnel in Greater Manchester with 8 incidents between April and June, the other 9…
Despite Oldham having the highest UK unemployment growth in the last year, the UK’s fourth lowest number of children living in fully working households and the UK’s fourth highest tax credit payment rate the allure…
Anyone heard of “Northern Roots”? No neither have we, it appears to be another of those secretive Oldham Council public funded schemes which should be filed in a utopia wishful thinking portfolio. Although the council…
Today’s regional labour market statistics show that UK unemployment fell to 1.36 million the lowest rate for more than 40 years meanwhile unemployment in Oldham is double the England, Great Britain and UK averages and…
Government statistics released today show that in 2013 fifty one other UK local authority areas had a lower percentage of children living in “working households” where all adults worked than Oldham, by 2017 just three…
Since taking over leadership of Oldham Council in May after the previous leader Jean Stretton was ousted by a political coup which was orchestrated by key members and influencers of the Oldham Labour group, Sean…
Latest crime figures for Oldham up to the end of March 2018 show in the last year public order offences have gone up by 82%, possession of weapons up by 68%, violence up by 58%,…
The latest official figures published today show that in the last year unemployment in Oldham has grown by five times the Greater Manchester average with unemployment now some 47% higher than the GM average. Oldham…
Today’s population statistics release shows there are now more than 66 million people living in the UK with 55.6 million living in England. 59% of the increase was due to international migration. Today’s population statistics…
Oldham Council admits there is three times more demand for social housing in Oldham than in neighbouring Bury, Rochdale and Tameside. The actual truth is that there are three times more people on the social…
Official DWP figures show that the number of pensioners in Greater Manchester has fallen by 9,224 in the last 4 years & the number in Oldham has fallen by 831. The number of pensioners fell…
Good to see in his first speech yesterday that the new Oldham Council leader Sean Fielding continued the policy started by Jim McMahon and maintained by Jean Stretton of keeping record unskilled immigration pressures in…
Oldham Council has been given £602,000 from the government’s oddly named “Controlling Migration Fund” to deal with pressures from high volumes of migrants and in true Labour Oldham style they are spending 60% of the…