Cash strapped Oldham Council cannot afford to enter it’s parks, other than Alexandra and Dunwood, for Green Flag awards but can continue to spend tens of thousands on Town Centre Britain In Bloom displays costing…
As with the previous worrying set of crime figures the latest statistics have once again not been reported by Oldham Council or the local press. In the year to March 2015 total crime in Oldham…
In 2014 poverty stricken Oldham continued to have the highest birth rate in Greater Manchester at 73.9 births per 1000 women. MP Debbie Abrahams & Council leader Jim McMahon, oddly enough, leave Oldham’s GM highest…
ONS population estimates for mid 2014 show that there was a 68.6% higher inflow of international migrants to Oldham than the outflow of migrants from Oldham returning to their countries of origin, that’s a 5%…
Oldham Council is tendering for the “construction of sixteen houses for private sale in order to complete one section of the Gateways to Oldham PFI project (Primrose Bank)”. So here we are again with Oldham…
Between January 2014 & March 2015 1991 new National Insurance numbers were issued to foreign nationals resident in Oldham 663 of which were issued to Romanian & Bulgarian migrants. Since May 2013 Oldham Councils “flagship”…
Oldham Council has allocated £49,000 from the Public Health Grant to Voluntary Action Oldham for the provision of Community Development training for Councillors, Council staff, housing provider staff, health staff, PCSOs and voluntary and faith…
Finalised figures released in May show that in 2013/14 more than one in every four Oldham households received an annual average £7,508 in tax credits. This not only means that in real terms these households…
Using figures from their published financial accounts, in 2014/15 Oldham Labour Council made 124 staff redundancies from within the lowest exit grade of £0 – £20,000 costing £696,597 this was ten times more redudancies than the…
In it’s latest set of filed accounts Oldham Council chooses to base it’s analysis of the social context of Oldham on the outdated 2011 census statistics which allows them to deliberately leave out of the…
Oldham Council and the CCG have already hijacked hundreds of thousands from the public health budget to supply demographically selective new central heating systems in target areas whilst many people struggle to get doctor, dentist and…
The Labour party’s election manifesto was all about families and protecting benefits for families whilst single people, who suffered the brunt of detrimental Conservative social and benefit policies in the previous parliament, were afforded no…
46,000 Romanian and Bulgarian (EU2) citizens immigrated to the UK in 2014, proving that migrationwatch immigration inflow modeling was accurate yet again. 641,000 people immigrated to the UK in 2014 and new National Insurance number…
Despite Labour Oldham’s latest election leaflet telling people how lucky they are to have Council Tax bills frozen for the second year, after Gateshead & Liverpool, Oldham has the highest Council tax of any authority…
It must be election time again in Oldham as the Labour Council adopt the living wage as policy on the 1st April 2015 after years of promoting low pay in Oldham as a selling point…