Cymer Afan Comprehensive School is at the heart of our community and situated in the Upper Afan Valley. The teachers are above average with a rating of 4.41/5 stars. The children receive excellent education and this goes to show as the school is 6th out of the whole of Wales. The children would have to travel at least 2 hours minimum each day, on not the best valley roads. This inturn would affect the children's health and well-being.

Xplore are proposing two alternative routes to the 32/33 bus which would cut out Forfar Road. Their consultation highlights that the route could also stay as it is. You can see the proposed two route changes at this link http://nxbus.co.uk/files/NXDundee/misc/FintryRouteReview-PublicConsultationDocument.pdf This re-routing would severely restrict people's ability for travel: • make it harder for people with disabilities and older people with mobility problems to catch a bus and get out of the house, potentially leading to loneliness and social isolation • safety concerns of having to work through a scheme to get to/and from the bus • get to and from work • visit friends and relatives • access education and training • access to hospitals, doctors, dentists and other medical services • access to leisure activities including town and countryside locations Fewer buses on the road will mean more traffic congestion and delays which affects all of us.

From Tuesday to Friday, the library closes at 4pm, and it doesn’t open at all at weekends. Many children and students in local schools finish too late to to use the services after school, and residents working 9-5 jobs do not have much opportunity to access the library at all. The current opening hours seem only to serve the needs of the City workers coming into the area during the day, rather than the people living in the local community. This issue has been raised in a recent customer survey, and a consultation into a new spread of opening hours is under way. We, the residents of the City of London, want to make sure that our voices are put front and centre on this issue, rather than the corporations and City workers, which is too often the case.

Money for Croydon's school children has been squeezed and schools are reporting that they are now at breaking point. Sarah Jones MP surveyed over 50 Croydon headteachers about funding and found: - 96% of heads say funding is not enough - 92% have had to cut staff numbers - 85% have had to cut support for children with special needs Nationally, £2.8bn has been cut from school budgets since 2015. Things in Croydon are even more difficult because schools receive thousands of pounds less per pupil than schools in neighbouring boroughs such as Lambeth. Croydon now has the highest number of schools in deficit than any London borough. For two years, our schools have been struggling on, now they are starting to sink. The Chancellor has the opportunity to save our schools by releasing new money in his upcoming budget. Earlier this summer, the Government announced that parts of the Department for Education budget would be cut so that money can be redistributed into frontline schools funding. But over the next two years schools will see funding increases capped at 3% per year, with some getting as low as 0.5%. If inflation stays at 3% per year, that means no school will get the 'real-terms' increase they need. The Government found £1bn for the DUP within a week of the election - it's a scandal if they can't find any new money in the budget for our children's education. They deserve the best we can give them.

It will enable so many unemployed people who are above the age of 25 and those who want to change their jobs to do it with ease,without incurring huge expenses which they are not able to meet.Some people have been stuck for life in dead end jobs which they are not able to leave,because they have no means to.

This centre provides vital services to the local community that helps transform peoples' lives through providing information, advice, guidance, education, creative art and free activities. It helped save my life after my husband's suicide acting as a second family that gave me my autonomy back. I benefited from their classes, meeting new friends and now as a thank you I volunteer and fund raise for them.

As a homosexual male, most of my high school career was spent being bullied for something that I hadn't come to terms with yet. It was never explained in school the difference between acknowledging that you're gay and accepting it. I remember this was never taught in class. But why does it matter? A report for Stonewall, found that nine in ten secondary school teachers say students in their schools are bullied, harassed or called names for being – or perceived to be – lesbian, gay or bi

Since the beginning of this school year, the existing service (the 835) had been over crowded beyond legal capacity. When this was reported the buses started shutting their doors or driving past children when they were full, leaving the children stranded and unsafe. The imposed solution by Longdendale High School and Transport for Greater Manchester that these children should use public transport is unacceptable. The roads and traffic volumes are unsafe, there is no appropriate safe guarding and the buses do not run at convenient times. Many of the children, some age eleven and just starting high school, simply do not possess the skills or confidence to negotiate busy main roads, public transport and issues with other bus travellers effectively or safely. The imposed solution was taken without any consultation with parents, despite multiple complaints to the school and Transport for Greater Manchester. It does not take into account the safeguarding of our children, and is failing to provide an effective community service as is a contractual obligation.

Sefton Council are planning on closing Farnborough Road children’s centre along with others in the area. The children's centres will be merged into a smaller number of family centres, but this will mean huge cuts to the services children’s centres provide. It is so important to families with young children to have somewhere local to go to. For the parents and children to make friends and have someone to speak to if they need to. The local children's centre provides amazing classes for learning and experiences for babies to pre school children. They are easily accessible and should be kept that way.

The library is an important part of the community providing a gathering place for people of all ages. Providing activities for children of all ages and space for other groups. Removal of the library will also make it difficult for many people to gain access to books in the community of Desborough. It is also a vital access point to the council for many people with restricted mobility due to the help desk

Doxford's Pallion or West Gatehouse The building we are hoping to save was the original main entrance to Doxford's Shipyard and Engine Works and is located on the former western boundary of the Pallion Shipyard. William Doxford, a timber merchant, started the shipbuilding firm in 1840 at Cox Green, moving to Pallion Shipyard in 1857. Soon after this date, marine engineering evolved as a new discipline in response to the transition from sail to steam and the associated move from timber to iron hulls. Doxford's was one of the first companies to respond to the new demand and developed an engine works in the West Yard in 1869. Doxford's Gate was later built as the main entrance to the works; this part of the site being occupied by the company for 119 years, throughout its most prosperous period. Between 1905-1907, Doxford's had the highest production of any shipyard in the world. The Gate was constructed at around this time, probably c.1903, during a phase of pre-war expansion. The Gate is regarded to be of considerable heritage significance, in terms of its communal, historic and aesthetic value. The Gate is one of the few surviving physical reminders of the 'story' of the Doxford company and reflects the wider history of shipbuilding across the region. The Gate would have been the first building visitors would see when entering the engine works - when built the most advanced and prestigious building of Doxford's yard. As such, it was the main 'public face' and image of the company. However, it also served an important practical function, housing the time clock where workers would clock in and out each day and included the Commercial Office (within the North Pavilion) where new clients and contacts were met and entertained. We believe the building should be saved by way of careful demolition and reconstruction somewhere near Keel Square in the developing cultural and heritage quarter of the city. It would make an ideal Shipbuilding Heritage Centre to inform future generations, and preserve the memory, about the long and proud shipbuilding history of Sunderland.

There are currently 7 primary schools Under the NYCC care in danger of closing. We have already lost 3. In an ideal world Ings would remain open, and the heart of the community however as this now seems futile I feel that there needs to be a full investigation into why we have got into this situation, and how we are going to prevent it happening again. I would also like it to be investigated why we are closing these schools yet allowing private developers to put in planning for two new schools in the area- both of which will be owned by an academy or free school, meaning they will no longer be under any of NYCC remit- a massive safeguarding issue