First Choice Homes Oldham is demolishing 247 rental properties at two high-rise blocks in Coldhurst namely Crossbank House and Summervale House, Oldham’s largest social housing provider will then build 100 new family homes. Like most…
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Oldham MP Debbie Abrahams has signed a pledge not to report illegal immigrants to the home office who attend her constituency office. She shared the link on social media for those who think this is…
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…
Figures from the Office for National Statistics show the employment rate for women with dependant children in England is 74% and the employment rate for women with dependant children in Oldham is 56.6% almost a…
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…
Austerity challenged Oldham Council is spending £450,000 creating a Geospatial information system team with 67% of the money being spent on three new high salaried positions. Read the detailed information here Cash strapped Oldham…
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…
The taxpayers alliance has revealed that Oldham Council has purchased 317 flights for its officials since 2015 at a cost of more than £65,000, in contrast Rochdale spent £891. The terrible sacrifice these poor Oldham…
Today’s release of tax credit payment figures for 2016 – 2017 shows that Oldham continues to make the UK’s fourth highest average payment after Hackney, Tower Hamlets & Birmingham. The truly staggering figures for all…