The Centre for Social Justice has picked up another award at this years Prospect Think tank awards. It has won UK Social Policy think tank of the year following on from its first award for publication of the year for 'Breakthrough Britain' in 2006. Juliette is seen here recieving the award with the team R-L: Rt Hon Iain Duncan Smith MP, now Secretary of State for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), Philippa Stroud, former Executive Director and now a special advisor at the DWP, Asheem Singh, author & researcher and Robin Miller, former Programmes Director.
Juliette is committed to the County Council becoming carbon neutral across its estate by 2030.
She is pleased with action that has been taken in this area to date such as changing 16,000 street lamps to LEDs and achieving the highest recycling rate for the 7th year in a row.
Although planning is regulated and monitored by our district Cllrs, Juliette supports the development of a moderate number of well planned new homes for our communities.
There are areas in the Country that have unnecessarily high Council tax and there are management companies that are sticking with the status quo rather than reduce or freeze local taxes for 2021.
After the success of the Invicta National Academy over the summer holidays providing free catch up lessons for thousands of Oxfordshire children, I am calling on all schools to use some of their £80 per child Covid catch up funding on tailored online provision for those that are behind.
This year has seen some of the worst levels of air pollution that the capital has experienced as a result of sub-saharan dust particles and industrial pollution from the continent. As a result, the EU's decision to launch legal proceedings against the UK for failing to reduce 'excessive' levels of nitrogen dioxide (NO2) air pollution- mostly from traffic- after 15 yrs of warnings is one I actually support.
