All too often we hear stories about failing care systems. A lot of the time the workers have been blamed for inadequate care.... What you don't hear of, is how little support these workers have. Also, just how little investment goes into training! if any at all. These workers endure incredibly unsociable working hours. Providing high quality care is not easy under this pressure. Higher pay would enable these workers to "share the load". Having teams able to work more manageable hours and still be able to afford to live. Local authorities and care agencies MUST be made accountable for ensuring ALL staff are properly trained regularly. They make massive profits and don't seem to invest in the workforce. This will have a knock on effect to the quality of care people receive. Overworked staff cannot provide the best quality care. I myself am a working private personal assistant. 12 years experience. NVQ 3 qualified. I work within a team which is crumbling because people cannot cope with the unsociable hours or cannot get enough hours to make a decent amount of money. All the while this is going on, the care or a vulnerable, elderly and frail lady has to be maintained. Meaning I work throughout the day until 11pm and start again at 8am. Not easy 7 days a week and juggling a family too! There is a clear link between low pay of care workers and poor quality care. The simple answer to raise standards of care from my experience is to increase workers pay. It is a demanding job role and it should be recognised as such.

so we can save our planet and we wont run out of oxygen , we can plant these trees at Lewes Road and at The Level

These protests are causing huge distress and upset to the women accessing vital health care. They should be free to do this without fear or harassment. These protests are also disruptive and intimidating to staff and local residents. Police have told clinics that their hands are tied (The Home Office has written to me to say that police have the powers to remove but they don't so exclusion zones are the only answer).

This will save money as they don’t need to be cut and will provide more habitat for bees and other pollinating insects

All animals and wildlife need to be cherished & protected.

The state of these roads costs the drivers a fortune in car repair and is a danger to the public and vehicles.

After watching the awards ceremony last night, it struck me that it was not as reflective of our society as it could be, and conveyed a potentially misleading message to young women growing up in today's society. With the pinnacle award of the night being the best Actor and the best female Actor always playing second fiddle - it really compounds the message that women are second rate in the acting stakes.

For many years there has been a legitimate but virtually uncontrolled trade in tickets for entertainment and sporting events. Event tickets are purchased at face value by individuals and companies with no desire to attend. They are then sold on at hugely inflated prices, often many hundreds of pounds above the face value, without the original purchaser adding any value what so ever. Or they sell the ticket as part of a package, perhaps including travel and accommodation, at a ridiculously inflated price, because it includes event tickets. This practice is immoral, these people/companies contribute nothing but take as much as they can possibly get and, in so doing, deny ordinary fans the joy of attending a live event.

Education is arguably as important a social good as policing. Those responsible for ensuing that public money is effectively spent on improving educational outcomes should be answerable to the electorate.

As your first act as Mayor please cancel the folly and wasted expense of a Garden Bridge that no-one wants apart from Joanna Lumley and her chums. It is a vanity project that will do nothing for ordinary Londoners and is just a waste of money.

It proves to young people that democratic systems work

To Create and maintain a SAFER, CLEANER environment for ALL Residents of Archers Park. Please sign this petition in order to show that you agree.