Most schools in the Highland region are part of an ASG (number of schools grouped together). The Highland Council are removing the Head Teachers from all these schools and replacing them with one administrative head who will have control of all the schools budgets. This is a form of centralisation which not only removes a schools identity but its ability to function independently and hence do the best for the children attending that school. This will shortly be happening to Tongue and Melvich Primary schools who are part of the Farr ASG which contains 4 primary and Farr High school. Tongue is 13 miles west of Farr High and Melvich is 17 miles east. The new administrator will be based at Farr High school along with the budgets for all the schools and although both Tongue and Melvich Parent Councils have strongly opposed these changes the Highland Council are proceeding anyway. Compromises will inevitably be made by this administrator which will benefit some schools at the detriment to others. This is WRONG WRONG WRONG and should not be happening.

It's important that both parents have regular access to the children so that they are aware that they are loved. Parental Alienation Syndrome can have adverse effects on the child making them have rejection issues. Children want to know why they don't get to spend time with both parents or have to spend more time with one over the other. Fathers, in general, have problems getting the access their children deserve. Mediation and legal fees are also extortionately costing up to thousands. Consider what it must be like not having frequent access to your kids, and what that must be like for them. The laws need to be changed, and costs for sorting out the issues of separation need to be brought back to reality. Mediation meetings can be four times the cost of alternative private counseling, whereby one parent attends, and up to ten times the cost where both parents attend. The process of resolving access issues are costly, laborious. Opening children to months of completely unacceptable hardship and stress. We should bring the laws we have up to the same standards of countries like Norway. Equal parenting is favored, encouraging more active parenting roles and supporting the equal share of parenting contact both parents rightfully deserve. Without this approach, Children can dangerously be in a position where a mother is in complete control of access arrangements, which is rarely the case for fathers. Neither parent should be put in this position unless there are serious grounds for concern with either parent. Norway's laws addressed this matter where parents are automatically given equal rights unless there are significant reasons why this shouldn't be the case. Our laws should support fathers that want to be there for their children rather than support fathers that don't! Family law needs to be modernised. Parents should not be faced by a system that actively encourages them to turn their backs on their children. Instead, we should have one that encourages their equal involvement in their lives. Improvements will not be made until the laws are changed. Please tell your MP to actively support and encourage equal parenting through their work in Parliament.

This is an issue which needs to be addressed in order to help the development of children with disabilities. Having recently visited a store with my 7 year old nephew, who has down syndrome, we were shocked to discover that there was not a single section designated to children whose needs differ from normal children. They require sensory toys, often with lights and sounds to aid their development but all that is available in store is similar toys designed for babies and small children not for older children who despite having a disability still need to work on skills such as counting, just through different means.

l feel that the Tory Government do not place value, nor are showing compassion for the British families. l can tell that they are currently playing immigration politics with the British people precious, life and destiny, which is not acceptable and fair on the British public. One example of such case is Irene Clennell, who was sent back to Singapore despite being married to a Briton for 27 years. The family of this woman removed from the UK after losing her indefinite leave to remain have condemned the home secretary for a lack of compassion, as MPs, campaigners and lawyers warned such cases were becoming common. Irene Clennell, 52, who first arrived in Britain in 1988, was deported on Sunday and landed in Singapore on Monday afternoon local time after more than a month of detention in an immigration removal centre. She had no chance to say goodbye to her British husband of 27 years, their two sons or her two-year-old granddaughter, who all live in north-east England.

The Children's Sleep Charity is contacted by hundreds of families each week, many who are at crisis point due to sleep deprivation. We are unable to meet demand due to lack of funding. Sleep deprivation is costly to society and impacts negatively on the mental, emotional and physical wellbeing of the whole family. Currently sleep support is unregulated which means that anybody can set up a business and offer a family information. Inappropriately trained practitioners can provide mis-information to vulnerable families. Sleep support needs regulation in order to protect families. The importance of sleep must be addressed urgently. Evidence shows that providing a behavioural approach to sleep is effective and also hugely cost saving to the NHS.

sherdley park is part of our heritage,we all went there when younger and we continue to take our kids there

New babies and mother's are leaving hospital too early. This is affected the babies ability to learn to feed. This is potentially lethal and inhibits a new mothers confidence to continue to breast feed. Such babies miss out on the gifts that breast feeding provides such as increased immunity and decreased sensitivity to food allergens aswell as the emotional bond and comfort breast feeding provides.

This charity is well respected and loved by the people of Stockport for its' invaluable help in raising funds for local charity. 'Formal objection' from TV giant Sky seeks to switch off major Stockport charity event The company does not want Roughleys Bike Show taking place outside its contact centre Mega-rich TV giant Sky will try and prevent one of Stockport ’s major charity events going ahead, protesting that it will affect the employee smoking area – on a bank holiday. Roughleys Bike Show has taken place in the town centre since 2000, annually attracting thousands of visitors and raising up to £10,000 for worthy causes.

This petition is to stop the closure of Dr Ghaharians surgery by the NHS

In my wife's case: My wife’s elderly retired parents have been refused entry to the United Kingdom for a family holiday. My wife, is from the Philippines she has a British Passport and has been resident in the UK for a period approaching 10 years, we have been married for the same period. We have paid the application process fees to the Home Office fees amounting to hundreds of pounds, this fee is non-returnable. We have more than sufficient funds in the bank, we are financing the return airfare together with all other expenses, the Home Office have my bank statements, my bank account has never been over-drawn in the past 50 years. I am a retired licensed debt counsellor and finance broker; my credit rating is irrefutably shown as being at the highest possible level. Amongst other shameful, fatuous and humiliating reasons for entry refusal is: 1. They are not satisfied with my wife’s immigration status although she has a British Passport! 2. They are not satisfied that we will not resort to the use of public funds. 3. My wife’s father is unemployed, yes of course he is, he’s retired. 4. Quote from the refusal: I am not satisfied you have shown that your ties to Philippines (or elsewhere) are sufficient incentive to leave the UK at the end of your proposed visit. On balance of probabilities, I am therefore not satisfied that you are genuinely seeking entry as a visitor or will to leave the UK after a limited period. Your application for a visit visa is refused under paragraph V4.2. Why would they want to live here, the Home Office acknowledge they live in a mortgage free house in the Philippines which we purchased for them to live in. 5. Mine and my wife’s bank balance fluctuates, why would they not? We run a business, of course it fluctuates, but it's always thousands of pounds in credit, they know that, because they have originals of bank statements and savings accounts. Isn’t about time the Home Office stopped issuing blanket holiday visa refusals in respect of British citizens married to wives with British passports without good reason and then compounding the humiliation by expecting us to pay more fees to appeal their absurdly unsound and injudicious decisions.

It's difficult to plan finances around payments that move around the calendar each month. Direct Debits in particular don't cope well this this. The system is out of touch with modern family finances and needs to be changed.

There is an estimated 90,000 unaccompanied children and teenagers across Europe Help Refugees, one of the British charities working in France, had already launched legal action against the government's handling of Dubs. Its judicial review, which will be heard on Friday, argues that ministers failed to consult local authorities properly about how many unaccompanied children could be housed.