Liverpool City Council have already decided to cut some school crossing patrols (Lollipop ladies/men) because they are not a statutory service and therefore they do not have a legal obligation to keep our children safe. Although Greenbank Primary’s School crossing patrol was cut, Greenbank School along with more than another 50 schools have stepped in to fund this vital service. As you are all more than aware, a huge redevelopment is taking place on Smithdown Road, many of us have raised concerns about making this road much safer for pedestrians. This is the perfect opportunity to request Liverpool City Council to make this junction between Smithdown Road and Greenbank Road much safer to cross. After several emails to the City Council and local Councillors I recently raised this issue with the school. I was asked to collate the support of lots of parents so I have develop this petition: This is of the upmost importance as the road is very busy with traffic and all of us who travel to and from the primary school, nursery and park need the highest of road safety. The council have worked in partnership with the University of Liverpool to add a crossing for students to access Greenbank Park because the road crossing there is dangerous. Do we not all believe that our children deserve the same level of safety?

Tory MP compares calls for financial transparency for MPs with a "ban on curtains" and George Osborne changes his mind on anti-money laundering checks. This government isn't serious about anything, never mind tackling tax avoidance: "The Chancellor has caved under pressure from influential Tory Charles Walker, who last week refused to reveal his tax returns George Osborne has agreed to make MPs exempt from anti-money laundering checks under pressure from moaning Tory backbenchers. ...Ministers will now move to exclude MPs from the watch lists in the forthcoming Bank of England bill. Mr Osborne caved under pressure from influential Tory backbencher Charles Walker, who has been pressing for the change for some months. Mr Walker, who chairs the 1922 Committee of backbench Tory MPs, last week threatened to table a bill banning curtains if he was forced to publish his tax returns." This is bullying tactics designed to try and cover up, the general public have to detail everything to the government and law or face the consequences. Not a problem if we have nothing to hide. So why should MP's who are paid by the people to do a job for the people be allowed to get away with it......

No child should be starving. When this is happening within the European Union, we should do everything within our power as a nation to intervene and ensure that these babies are fed

I could not quite get my head around why they disappeared in the first place. Then I discovered that they are better than the alternatives now in the classroom. As demonstrated by the more intelligent children of Japan's education system. Simply the chalk is wider than markers or computer text and therefore easier for all to see.

Too many childrens lives and educations are being ruined by the lack of diagnosis or lengthy waiting lists. Causing them anxiety and long term problems as well as a lack of reasonable education. My son displayed all the signs of autism in primary school with constant meltdowns and yet was always excluded this has continued into secondary school. After being rejected three times by CAHMS he finally has an autistic diagnosis (scoring high on the spectrum). This has come in year 9 which has caused him to miss years of education struggling in mainstream schooling and multiple exclusions as well as a conviction for me and a hefty fine (for his poor attendance) after being taken to court by the same council that failed my son for so many years!

This is a rare occasion where the public has enthusiastically showed interest in a national science project. The name, although sniffed at by some, would undoubtedly help to engage a new generation of scientists and the general public in the important research undertaken by the boat. Let's get some fun, as well as democracy, back into science.

This little school serves a very rural Teesdale area. The children mostly come from isolated farms and communities. If the school was to close, as planned, many children would not get to school at all in the winter. The next nearest school is in Weardale. The route to the next dale is often impassable in winter. We mustn't let down these children You never know...one of them might be the one who discovers the cure, or answer to, a life changing disease currently plaguing our society!

Sex education can teach respectful attitudes and values - including consent and communication skills, help pupils be more informed about violence and exploitation and explore sex as a regular fact of life. Significantly in our changing world, sex education can help pupils understand on- and offline safety. From an increasingly young age, children are accessing disturbing and abusive sexual imagery online. However hard parents try to put the right controls in place, they need a helping hand from schools. Numerous polls have found there's overwhelming parental support for compulsory sex education. Sex and relationship education won’t stop abusers preying on children. It won’t stop pre-pubescent boys watching hardcore porn. But it might help children become more ready for the world: by helping them to keep themselves safe online and off-, to be able to put inappropriate material in context, and to have a fair crack at understanding sex and relationships (to the extent that any of us do).

A "secret shopper" is a person used by watchdog groups to measure the staff's agreement with rules as well as the quality of service. My experience of signing-on at my local jobcentre for the last couple of months has been awful. I am often called "lad" despite being older than many of the staff. I was angrily told "I can guess what people like you think" when explaining my difficulties in not finding a new job yet. The staff have shouted, sighed, tutted and shaken their heads at me. I have been wrongly told to come in for an appointment - then been told to come back the next day because I was mis-advised. All without any apology. Most, if not all, major shops employ so-called secret shoppers. For instance, secret shoppers at a restaurant may pretend they are lactose-intolerant, or a clothing store mystery shopper could ask about gift wrapping services. Not all secret shopping reports include a purchase. If you have been to the jobcentre recently you will notice that it now looks and feels more like a drop-in centre. It is full of despairing people, hopeless lives trying to get out from under. The jobcentre is a difficult environment to cope with for the best of us these days but particularly for the vulnerable in society. As a result of the punitive and unreasonable measures by successive governments, most of the vulnerable people in society are unemployed and they are on the verge of becoming homeless and suicidal. We must educate jobcentre staff who bully claimants. The tone is rude, unprofessional and angry. Many of my visits to the jobcentre were counterproductive. At Tesco or Asda if staff were rude to a customer, they would be warned, disciplined or face the sack! We need to teach staff the correct methods to respond to the general public, in a professional manner. This is why we need to hold the jobcentre staff to account.

The bees are dying out, the plants need pollinating, without that we would have no flowers let alone food, from the trees to the shrubs, bees are critical to the environment. Not only would a bee hive in Cherry Tree Woods provide honey, but it would be a great boon to local businesses, putting East Finchley on the map. Where East Finchley leads, others will follow, teaching children about nature and securing our future. Thank you.

It's time to claim back housing from the monied interests of people who have no stake in the UK and return it to homes for people to live in. Housing is a corner stone of a functioning society and in a time where the situation is in a chronic state we need to take drastic action. Politicians for reasons unexplained, champion the purchase of property by foreigners as "investment in the UK" but never explain the supposed benefits of property sitting empty, doing nothing. For sake of argument I am talking about foreign investors who buy UK property and do not live in it. There is simply no benefit to the UK in letting this continue, the house builder makes some money on the build, there is stamp duty in the sale and then what? If a property is sat empty it doesn't contribute any benefit to the UK, there is no-one in it creating any ongoing economic activity. Banning foreign investor ownership may sound drastic, but it's nothing new, Australia, Denmark and Switzerland all place restrictions on foreign ownership for all the same reasons that we've experienced in the UK.[1] Additionally, in the wake of the Panama scandal we see that a lot of people use property as a way of storing dodgy money, be that untaxed or money that has been extracted out of their country illegally or through crime.[2] You may see Chinese owners of UK propery, but did you know that Chinese citizens are only allowed to remove $35K a year out of their country by law?[3] It has been widely thought that London property is a safe haven and major holder of a lot of corrupt money.[4] There has been a big trend for many new build properties in London, and increasingly other big cities, to be advertised and sold to foreign buyers before anyone in the UK gets the chance to purchase them.[5] It's time housing was reclaimed as somewhere for people to live, not somewhere for people to store criminal proceeds, tax evaded earnings or at the very least worse case, an investment that sits empty. If this petition gains enough traction I will formally start a petition through the parliament.uk web site to attempt to secure a debate in parliament. Politicians have had 10-15 years to enact change on the housing crisis but have failed time and time again with ineffective policies. The UK government needs to put people living in the UK ahead of foreign investors - it's time to call for change. [1] http://www.theguardian.com/money/blog/2015/nov/21/foreign-buyers-british-property [2] http://www.private-eye.co.uk/registry [3] https://uk.finance.yahoo.com/news/no-stairs-and-square-rooms-only--the-madness-of-the-foreign-buyers-spending-billions-on-london-homes-165014502.html [4] http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/london-property-boom-built-on-dirty-money-10083527.html [5] http://www.theguardian.com/money/2014/oct/04/-sp-british-homes-marketed-hong-kong-first-time-buyers-galliard

In a recent survey 82% want to die in their own homes but only 18% actually are able to do this. Learn from organisations like Colchester & Tendring "Single Point" a joined up service who made it possible for my Mother to stay at home until she passed away. As I work in this field I knew how the system worked re the Mental Capacity act assessments worked and we were able to avoid a 3rd hospital admission. The out of hours service do not have access to her preferred place of care notes but as she was able to express her wishes despite her dementia my Mother got what she wanted, we saved the taxpayer money and gave her the wish to die at home. It was not an easy choice for us to make but I have no regrets. She died with dignity and respect and she passed peacefully away in her own bed, with family present who were chatting to her despite her being unconscious and holding her hand. Now isn't that all any of us can ask for. The Health and social services system is geared to hospital/nursing/residential homes so under the current system you need to be really clued up to navigate through "the Care Act 2014". Please make it easier for a family/friends/neighbours/carers to assist patients to make an informed choice. Make more information available about the kind of support they could have and training opportunities as needed in how to care for someone at the end of their life, emotionally, physically and spiritually. Please train more community carers in end of life (palliative) care and make emotional support available for all who do this work. Let's get back to community caring rather than just caring being a business.