By allowing the supermarkets to package our goods in plastics they are personally contributing to the ever growing environmental issues plastics pose on nature. With material technologies advancing we are now able to find alternatives to using plastic. The supermarkets have to realise that we are not happy filling landfills full of chirp packets, bottles and bags. Please sign this petition to make them change the way we package our food

The right to be heard- to be represented in court - to gain justice - has become the privilege of the wealthy. Many people on low incomes have been unable to solve Civil Law cases due to legal aid being withdrawn by the government. It has made a mockery of the legal system- it must be re-instated

Taylor Unit was opened in 1994, for the people of wigan Bolton salford and leigh. It is a dedicated neurological rehabilitation unit, offering exceptional care.

Canal and River Trust's 'calamitous' decision to remove the Planet Lightship from Liverpool and tow it to Gloucester has placed at risk a key piece of Britain's maritime heritage. Despite it being in good condition, C&RT are selling the ship on 16th December, potentially for scrap. http://www.merseysidecivicsociety.org/media/78748/savetheplanet.jpg?width=499&height=383 Please sign and share to urge C&RT Chairman Allan Leighton and Louise Ellman MP to stop the sale, and return 'Planet' to its Liverpool home. http://www.edwalkermarine.com/images/cart-images/planet-lightship.jpg The beautiful 'Planet' was Britain's last manned lightship and was world famous among mariners for marking the entrance to the Port of Liverpool channels at the 'Mersey Bar' sandbanks, 12 miles out to sea in Liverpool Bay. https://www.liverpoolconfidential.co.uk/news-and-comment/bar-lightship-the-lonely-planet-sails-away During the final years of the great Trans-Atlantic liners, sea captains used to race from New York's similar 'Ambrose' Lightship to Liverpool's 'Planet', to see if they could set new times. Glimpsing the Planet Lightship meant seafarers were safely home after long voyages. http://2irfbl23rse12dglqd39cw6v.wpengine.netdna-cdn.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/seaport-museum4-copy.jpg QE2 Captain Robin Woodall, of Hoylake, memorably described 'Planet' as the "Lantern on Liverpool's front door" for millions of sailors and passengers. After many years happy retirement on public display at Canning Dock in Liverpool's UNESCO World Heritage Site, Planet was suddenly seized in September 2016 and towed over 200 miles round Wales to Gloucester by the Canal and River Trust (C&RT), in a dispute over mooring fees, involving a sum reported to be £10k. http://media.gettyimages.com/photos/mann-island-apartments-with-liver-building-and-lightship-and-viewed-picture-id629600573?k=6&m=629600573&s=594x594&w=0&h=8inqKW59HjnfvOxXiGUCSJlS9NAP-PFmpGpVXs6oev0= The C&RT accept these fees have now been paid, but say they must recover the (much greater) costs of towing the ship and storing it in Gloucester by putting the ship on sale for a guide price of £100k. The deadline for bids is December 16th. http://www.boatsandoutboards.co.uk/Work-Boat-for-sale/unknown-light-ship/156305 The ship is likely to be sold to the highest bidder - who could include scrap merchants - and there is no stipulation the ship must be returned to its home port of Liverpool. The C&RT, formerly public body British Waterways, with assets of over £700m, and income last year of £190m, including £50m direct from government, say they are unable to take it on themselves, or place any condition on its destination. https://canalrivertrust.org.uk/refresh/media/original/29271.jpg Liverpool's former Chief River Pilot Captain Stuart Wood called the loss of Planet 'a total and absolute disaster, with several capital Ds'. http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/loss-mersey-bar-lightship-planet-11925466 Peter Elson, maritime historian and author says the "calamitous" situation threatens "the most important Liverpool ship afloat." http://www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpool-news/liverpool-mersey-bar-lightship-advertised-12275717 C&RT is a new organisation, set up with public money and former public property assets, which has been entrusted with the honour and responsibility of ownership of water-spaces within Liverpool's historic dock system. It would suffer real reputational damage on Merseyside and beyond if its first major decision results in Liverpool losing its much-loved lightship. http://c8.alamy.com/comp/EF12JJ/the-planet-mersey-bar-lightship-liverpool-docks-merseyside-england-EF12JJ.jpg Please sign to urge Riverside MP Louise Ellman, and national Canal and River Trust Chair Allan Leighton, to step in to bring the Planet back to its Liverpool home!

Since this Government was first elected in 2010 they have had an ideological agenda to attack the most vulnerable in society, The cuts to social care being one of them. Norfolk county council are proposing to make cuts to the sheltered housing warden service to balance their books in the coming year. The people who use this service are some of the most vulnerable in the county, It is absolutely vital in keeping these extremely vulnerable people in a safe environment and helping them lead more fuller, happier lives. The county council believe this will save money but it will not. In fact - A warden can keep 60 residents in a safe environment for 12 months for the same cost of keeping 1 resident in a larger home and still isolated. A warden costs around £450 a week servicing up to 60 residents. The cost of just one person going into a care home is around £600 per week. We urge the County Council to take in to account the social and economic benefits that this service provides and reconsider these proposed cuts.

This is important as there are no venues available at reasonable cost to encourage the continuance of an alternative social life within the town centre other than that provided by drinking and gambling establishments or mass market coffee houses. Without there being a reason to frequent the Town centre it will soon be no more. The building is in itself a rather splendid example of a public assembly building of the early twentieth century and would be missed from the streetscape

This is really important to stand up and get our voice heard. Our council is spending hard earned taxes on irrelevant needs such as refurbishments that do not benefit the community. Derby has not got enough support for the likes of education, health care, leisure, support for the homeless, the younger generation, the elderly, the people who work for the council and the community that lives here. This is to stand up and make it known we want this money to be spent on the larger priorities. People have lost their jobs due to cuts yet it is perfectly acceptable to spend £2.5 million on a refurbishment? There are much larger issues that need to be addressed. We would like the Council to hear our voices and reconsider how they spend the money.

The 2 Lollipop Ladies at Heacham Infant and Junior Schools are vital to our children's safety. The 2 roads they patrol are both busy roads, especially at school run times, and one of them is a main thoroughfare in and out of the village.The county council have proposed removing both patrols IN ORDER TO SAVE MONEY. Since when did money become more important than children's safety? The consultation period ends on 8th January 2017 which, with the busyness of Christmas upon us, makes our immediate action even more vital. Please sign this petition and help preserve our children's safety as well as keep the human element in a world that seems intent on de-humanisation. Thank you.

999 Demand is rising fast. In 2005 Ambulance Services received around 5 million calls. In 2015 they received over 9 million. Health and Social Care Information Centre (HSCIC) statistics show that the number of Qualified Ambulance Staff on the frontline only increased by 283 over the same period. It is recorded that there were 17417 Qualified Ambulance Staff in 2005 and 17700 in 2015 over a period where demand increased by over 4 million calls per year. The government correctly states that there are over 2000 more Paramedics in the NHS now than in 2010 but many of these staff were already counted in the Qualified Ambulance Staff bracket, having previously been Emergency Medical Technicians. Also, many newly qualified Paramedics simply fill vacant positions created by Paramedics who are leaving the service at a rate of around 1000 per year. Paramedics who are leaving the service often cite the stress and pressure associated with the high demand as a contributory factor to their decision to leave. Staff often work long shifts (10 or 12 hours) without rest breaks or with only a short rest break taken after hours of back to back jobs. On most shifts there are already calls waiting when ambulance crews become available again after an emergency call. They often work longer than their contracted hours due to calls that take them over their finishing time. A growing number of people are calling 999 with conditions which could be more appropriately managed in the Primary Care setting, such as their GP Surgery. Patients are reporting difficulties with arranging routine appointments because of the pressure on other areas of the NHS. Historically, these patients have been transported to A+E like any other 999 case even though they do not necessarily have an acute medical problem which requires emergency treatment. Now the focus is on taking healthcare to the patient in order to reduce unnecessary A+E attendances. Over the last decade, ambulance staff have taken on extra skills, responsibilities and autonomy in order to assist them with recognising, treating and referring these patients to the most appropriate alternative care pathways rather than using A+E by default. Entrance into the profession is now via higher education, with student Paramedics attaining degree level qualifications. Some Paramedics have also undertaken further education and training in order to work in more advanced roles, such as Critical Care or Urgent Care Practitioners. This might mean they are able to provide more advanced care in an emergency, prescribe antibiotics for minor ailments or suture minor injuries without the patient needing to attend A+E. All but one of our Ambulance Services have reportedly failed to hit government imposed response time targets recently. Because of the high demand, the government are changing response time targets so that Ambulance Services now have longer to assess calls which are not deemed immediately life threatening and longer to respond to them. Conditions such as Chest Pain and Difficulty in Breathing, which used to have an 8 minute response time, may now have a 19 minute response time in order for the Ambulance Services to identify and allocate the most appropriate resources rather than focussing solely on the response time. A number of media outlets have also reported that ambulances are often unable to respond to emergencies due to the length of time they are queuing to handover patients at A+E departments. Hospital handover and ambulance turnaround times are strictly monitored and partnership systems have been implemented to try and speed up the process. Despite these changes and initiatives, statistics show that our Ambulance Services are still struggling to keep up with demand and staff are feeling the pressure. Are our Ambulance Services in a position to take up the strain of other areas of the NHS without further investment? Ambulance Services are doing their best to innovate and make the best use of the resources at their disposal. More funding would allow Ambulance Services to increase the number of staff and resources, try new initiatives in order to meet the high demand, reduce the burden on already over crowded A+E departments, relieve the pressure on ambulance staff who are trying to keep up with demand, improve patient satisfaction and could ultimately save lives. If you agree that the government should provide more funding for our Ambulance Services, please sign the petition.

Plans have been drawn up in secret for yet another top-down re-organisation of our NHS. Called Sustainability and Transformation Plans (STPs), their main aim is to reduce NHS spending by around £22 billion by 2020-21 across England. In the Hampshire and Isle of Wight area alone (HIOW), which includes Southampton, £1 billion of savings, must be made over the next 5 years. These plans represent the second radical, top-down reorganisation of our NHS in 4 years. Local planners have been forbidden to conduct consultations on the whole plan for the area. So there will only be piecemeal consultations where particular problems arise. Although the plans contain some good ideas for integrating health and social care, the financial reductions required will limit how these can be achieved. Earlier drafts of the STP, and published discussions amongst NHS Managers, show that the STP is based on some really worrying assumptions: e.g. that 3 out of the 6 acute hospitals in HIOW will be unsustainable in the next 5 years, or that 30% of GP practices will be unsustainable by 2020/21. Local people are entitled to know how these judgements were made, and to have their say on the plans. This petition is organised by: Southampton Keep Our NHS Public. (SKONP).

The regional Sustainability and Transformation Plan (STP) is a largely hidden, high-level plan to hurriedly bring about the integration of health and social care, with a central role given to private providers. It is motivated more by hope than any real understanding of need and with no consultation with professionals and the public. - From the extreme level of “savings” outlined in both the STP and the part of the plan focused on mid-Sussex & East Surrey it is clear that the key objective is to reduce costs regardless of consequence. - In illustration of this, the amount our region (STP footprint 33) is being asked to save by 2020/21 is a staggering £653 million. - “Savings” already specified in the STP report include £112m on social care - £47.4m to be saved by encouraging GPs not to refer people to hospital - These plans nationally will put the final nail in the coffin of a comprehensive NHS and locally will have an irrevocably damaging impact on the health of city residents. - Local authorities round England are now protesting about STP and refusing to sign up. One local authority has initiated legal action. As citizens of Brighton & Hove we ask that the HOSC, with its role of overseeing and scrutinising our local health services, act urgently. We urge you as our elected representatives to: - Pass a motion of opposition to STP - Set up a review panel to call witnesses to account for all aspects of the STP and the Place-based Delivery Plan so an informed decision can be made by the whole council. - Initiate a full public consultation on the final detailed plan before any decisions are made to ratify it 1. https://www.coastalwestsussexccg.nhs.uk/building-first-class-health-and-care-system-for-sussex-and-east-surrey 2. Google 'Central Sussex and East Surrey Place-based Delivery Plan' for the PDF figures, page 16 3. For more general information and a detailed STP flyer- http://defendthenhssussex.weebly.com/

Heads in maintained Schools in Devon are already struggling to balance their books and retain staff. This will be a cut too far and have a massive impact on School staffing, teacher morale and, ultimately, our children's education and futures.