ROS WATCH
June 4, 2010 12:21 PM
Friends of Weymouth Refuge receiving a cheque for £500 towards the Freedom Programme
In the last 2 weeks Ros has:
- attended a public meeting about creating a secondary school in Swanage
-Spoken at the Lib Dem regional conference about Fair Votes for Dorset
the South West Regional Development Agency in continuing to support Dorset's economy
- submitted a protest to DCC cabinet against the Purbeck schools Review
- met with protesters against the Portland Academy
- chaired a packed public meeting about the academy
- posted on her blog about the academies legislation, political reform & reform of the Labour party
- attended meetings of the Weymouth Domestic Violence Forum & Friends of Weymouth Refuge fundraising group
- received a cheque from marathon runner Lisa Hughes towards funds for the Freedom Programme
for victims of domestic violence in South Dorset;
- attended the West Dorset Domestic violence forum to discuss trafficking of women in the Olympics & been interviewed on
Wessex FM about trafficking fears;
- attended an affordable housing steering group looking at ways of ensuring shared equity homes in the Flaxhayes
development are offered first to local people;
- expressed concerns about setting relevant affordable housing targets at West Dorset's Policy Scrutiny Committee
- Spoken at a Fair Votes for Dorset public meeting on the case for electoral reform
- taken up several cases of housing & crime casework