Schools census stats from January 2017 show minority ethnic pupils now make up 46.5% of primary school pupils in state-funded Oldham schools & 39.8% of pupils in state-funded Oldham secondary schools. According to Oldham Council’s…
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We have all seen the report on the BBC about child poverty in Oldham which concentrated on tugging at the heart strings and chose to completely avoid an assessment of Oldham’s socioeconomic landscape or the…
Labour Oldham MP Jim McMahon is moaning about the latest employment figures for Oldham. This serial failure forgot to add that 3,130 minimum wage jobs he announced with a fanfare of press releases when serving…
Oldham Council is yet again searching for yet another development partner for its ill thought out Oldham town centre masterplan. Quote from the latest press release from Oldham Council “Oldham Council is set to formally…
Oldham Council has purchased the former Oldham magistrates court site opposite the Civic Centre with the intention of building housing. The site sits in the 024 area which along with neighbour 022 has received the…
The number of pensioners in Greater Manchester has fallen by 5,665 in the last 4 years & the number in Oldham has fallen by 562. Remember that when you are fed purposely inaccurate statistics about…
20,442 adult foreign nationals have registered national insurance numbers from Oldham addresses in the last 16 years with 28% doing so in the last 3 years of which 35% came from Romania. 2015, 2016 and…
Oldham council tax is set to rise by an average £80 for band D properties. When talking about the need to increase council tax at the council meeting on the nineteenth of February OMBC stated…
In her leaders blog Council leader Jean Stretton writes “COLDHURST has been in the headlines this week after a national study was published on child poverty. I asked Abdul Jabbar, Oldham Council’s Deputy Leader, to…
Statistics from the ministry of justice show that Oldham is the only area in Greater Manchester that makes the top ten list of areas for house repossessions in the UK. According to further analysis undertaken…
The last 12 months have seen some genuine highlights and progress for Oldham. A personal favourite was confirming all the funding is in place for our exciting plans for a new Arts and Heritage Centre…
Oldham Council stated on BBC Radio Manchester today they won’t be making an announcement about the Prince’s Gate scheme until 2018. Due to open in 2017 but building work has still not started this has…
This weeks official statistics show in the third quarter of 2017 Greater Manchester continues to house 70% of all asylum seekers in the entire North West leaving Cheshire, Cumbria, Lancashire & Merseyside to share the…
Net migration in the year ending June 2017 of over 230,000 was a fall of 100,000 on the previous year when net migration was at its highest recorded level. That means migration still accounts for…
Oldham gets a roasting from OFSTED for its endemic failure to provide statutory (SEN) Special Educational Needs. Just a few of the reports findings include “There is non-compliance and flagrant disregard for legislative requirements.” “lack…