The residents of Camborne are already struggling to do shopping as Camborne is becoming a ghost town elderly and disabled people are having to travel to Penzance and Truro to do there shopping or losing out unless they have a computer let's keep our shops 

Because it would reduce the carbon emissions we produce which contribute to global warming and would reduce the UK's dependency on energy imports from other countries. 

Tony Gurney felt motivated  to create this petition after hearing the tragic news about young Aalim Makail falling from the 15th floor of his family’s home in Plaistow.  (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c4n1gn0qgdmo).  This is something that no family should have to experience and realistically some simple easy changes might make a big difference. Words do not describe the devastation Aalim’s family must be feeling adequately, or any other family in that situation.  One of the reasons that Tony was inspired to create this petition is because he helped a little girl who fell 60 feet from a window in 2016. She survived because of Tony’s  NHS training as an ODP, coupled the with optional First Aid Training provided by the NHS, and the support of the London Ambulance Service, London Air Ambulance and the NHS hospital they were taken to.  Previous Governments have done nothing to ensure tragic accidents like this never happen again. Tony still suffers from trauma symptoms to this day. He has wanted to try and take action to address this serious health and safety issue but did not feel able to due to his own trauma and anger. Hearing about Aalim’s tragic death made him determined to try and address this issue. Tony asked his RSO for help in addressing this issue. Tony reports that he was yelled at, and told it was ‘none of his business’. Tony’s GP referred him to the Mental Health Team for a PTSD assessment, which unfortunately wasn’t undertaken at the time. It has taken Tony approximately 7 years to get help and he felt abandoned and alone. He does not want this to happen to anyone else in the future. Tony’s  GP and Local Council have no obligation in law to communicate with each other.  “I’m told by my GP that Council’s just throw their letters in the bin and ignore them anyway, hence paragraph 6. I’ve asked for help repeatedly and have been told the guidelines are more important than me and our safety. The stress of the situation is also making my Crohn’s, Fibromyalgia and ADHD worse.” Tony has finally started the PTSD Therapy, and he is hoping that by starting this petition it might help other people who have been through this experience in their healing, including himself, and to make sure adequate support is in place for the future. We also hope for all children to be protected and to ensure no family ever goes through what these families have in the future. (Please note, we hope the consequence of paragraph 6 would be that it helps anyone with medical housing issues) There is also another cost in children falling from windows in such tragic circumstances, and that is the cost to the staff of Emergency Services and NHS. They have to deal with something that is totally avoidable, and extremely traumatic. According to Rigas, “emergencies involving children are often considered to have a greater psychological impact on healthcare workers” and “The prevalence of PTSD in healthcare workers in critical departments reaches 30%, much higher than the general population (3.5%)”. He goes on to state that “According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), over 80% of staff are emotionally and physically exhausted, while 45% of nurses reported not receiving enough emotional support”. (“Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder Symptoms among Paediatric Healthcare Workers” by Rigas, Jan 2024  https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10801477/ ). Current Law states that window restrictors are ‘recommended’ rather than compulsory. According to Pyramid Solutions, “There are no laws in the United Kingdom that require window restrictors to be installed in buildings. However, the UK government recommends that window restrictors be installed in buildings with children under the age of five, as well as buildings with vulnerable adults, to prevent accidents and injuries from falls.” (Pyramid Solutions June 2024 https://pyramidsolution.co.uk/blog/window-restrictors/ )  Stopping a child falling from their home should not be an optional extra. It should be a legal requirement.  The fact nothing has been done to change this situation is a sign of institutional negligence. Local councils and central government could have done something to change this time and time again, but they have failed. Sir Kier Starmer has said he wants to reinstate faith in politics and move to a model of preventative medicine and this could help him achieve these aims. Further, in light of Renoy Ellis’ fall in Kennington, and, because of Emma Ramsay’s fall in Ibiza (even though she is an adult) and the incident at the Tate Modern in 2019, we ask for a review of Balcony Safety Law and hope that this conversation can be happen at an international level.  I hope that you will sign this petition in order to make sure we do everything that we can to avoid these tragedies from ever happening again and to help anyone affected by them with their healing. You might help change a lot of people’s lives and save their sanity as well as their children. Thank you  Tony Gurney aka Groover The Barbarian (With thanks to Jackie Frances for her help with wording the petition)

The safety of our community, particularly our children and elderly residents, is at risk. The constant vibration from heavy traffic is damaging our homes and causing distress. By uniting as a community, we can create a stronger voice and increase our chances of achieving the necessary changes to make our roads safe for everyone.

Unfortunately, some children and grandchildren will use the parent/grandparent as a guarantor and in some instances inflict financial abuse on the guarantor by defaulting on mortgage payments resulting with the parent paying the mortgage and receiving legal letters as my father received from the age of 75 (between 2010 and 2021) which I believe caused his Alzeimers. If things stay the same then financial abuse of a parent, and a refusal to adhere to safeguarding by banks and building societies will continue, seriously affecting the mental health of elderly parents who are robbed of their peaceful retirement by their children and grandchildren. The importance of immediate action is required so that elderly vulnerable adults can be protected by new legislation which would also stop banks and building societies from putting elderly parents in excess debt, causing extremely poor mental health, taking its toll, resulting in an early death for the elderly victim.

Taxation benefits the country as a whole, and we all contribute. It sends a poor message when the rich and powerful are given exemptions that are not available to us all. These exemptions are given to people who need them the least.

With Society becoming more busy with both parents working along with a cost of living crisis leaving parents time and cash poor more children are impacted when starting school. Headlines focus on children starting school in nappies which shames parents and creates a culture for bullying and discrimination in schools. The reasons for the rise in children starting school in nappies is more than lazy parenting. There have been cuts to early years funding. A charity Kindred done a poll and found “More than one in five (22%) of parents had received no visits from a health visitor before their child started school and the majority (63%) had two visits or fewer.” Parents are getting their resources online from companies that are profiting from parents hence the readiness myth (i.e. that a child is not ready to potty train so you should keep them in nappies for longer). Also the nappies are designed to absorb which encourages little leaks instead of the child learning body signals to empty fully into the potty compared to nappies from previous years. Due to advanced medicine many more children are surviving today that would not have 20 years ago. The WHO organisation report that since year 2000 child deaths have reduced by half. This statistic may mean that more illnesses and disabilities such as diabetes, autism (New NHS data shows that there is a 47% increase of children waiting on an autism diagnoses) and other bowel and bladder problems become more prevalent. Charities show that bowel and bladder problems among children is common. A charity Eric say that 1 in 12 children live with a bowel or bladder problem. Bowel and Bladder UK report Bladder and bowel problems in childhood affect up to 28% of all children at any time.  Despite the increase of illnesses and disabilities there has also been an increase in NHS services due to the National Care Act 2022 meaning that the NHS is now about financial stability. More training and resources is needed among professionals from medical staff to school staff and social workers. Despite NICE guidelines many places lack community based services for children with bladder and bowel problems (Paediatric Continence Service Commissioning Guide 2014). Each Clinical Commissioning group (CCG) needs to be held responsible and accountable. We have a mental health crisis with over 400,000 children waiting on a mental health assessment that is over 39% increase in two years (RCPCH President Dr Camilla Kingdon). Children need responsive, sensitive care from the adults around them and shaming families for children starting school in nappies is not supportive, sensitive or caring. Many children have poor diets which has an impact on bladder and bowel due to an increase of children living in poverty. The Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) said “100,000 more children were pulled into relative poverty (after housing costs)” when compared with a year ago (30% of all UK children). Families deserve more.

I speak as a tenant of Westminster City Council - to which my landlord had hired a notoriously reckless and dangerous electrical company {{OAKRAY LIMITED}} as their contractor (6 years ago, approx). And there is *no doubt* that the landlord was *fully aware* of how *bad* this company actually are, due to their widely known reputation and very low customer ratings. But yet, despite this, they still hired them. And it is clear that they hired them for just the *ONE* reason only - that they were the {{{CHEAPEST}}} option available - because they have {{{NOTHING ELSE}}} going for them. All they ever do is cause {{{DAMAGE}}} with every job they do around the area, and then a more reputable company has to come out and *fix* their damage and blundering everywhere they have been.  By now It has gone way beyond a joke, but yet the council *still insists* on *keeping* them and are also *defending* them regardless of *anything* they do wrong. And they *refuse* to see *reason* - hence Oakray still continues to run amok. However, more {{{SHOCKINGLY}}} they (WCC) have this policy (which I have witnessed within a written document) that they do not investigate on their own *criminal activity*!!! And even the police cannot investigate them either. Plus most lawyer's firms don't want to know (it's an insane situation).  This awful/rotten business with Westminster's involvement with *Oakray* first began when the Government made a decision to implement electrical safety checks to Council tenants to which landlords had to comply (by law). But obviously the Council did not want the *expense*, which had resulted in their hiring this wretched company *Oakray*, due to their *cheapness*. Following this, the *worst* thing happened - they came to my flat (back in 2018) for the purpose of doing a *safety* check, but all they did was just rip out the Earth-connection from my circuit-board and run - which was the most *dangerous/lethal* thing to do within an AC electrical supply. This resulted in a *reverse-polarity* (otherwise known as a hot-neutral-reverse) of my electricity supply, in which everything was running haywire and my boiler was also shorted out - which left me without heating (in the freezing cold of winter). And I am battling a chronic illness/disablement. And so this was a nightmare. They came to do a *safety* check and turned my flat into a {{{DEATHTRAP}}} (it was perfectly safe before they entered). And the landlord had left me in this *dangerous* situation for {{{FIVE MONTHS}}} before fixing this damage. And I only survived this danger through *LUCK* alone - not any help/assistance from *them*!!! In this case what was done to me was *criminal*, on the part of all concerned.  I did in-fact submit a formal complaint at that time (well within their time limitation) but it was *evaded* and swept under the rug. And I was not given any *redress* nor *justice* for all the *misery* I was put through, plus I could quite easily have lost *my life*. But much later when I tried to push forward with my complaint, they used the *excuse* that it was outside of their deadline - even despite the *gravity* of this case. However, if this experience, alone, wasn't horrid and unpalatable enough, the problems I am having with Oakray have not gone away, and still continue to this day - eg, for all these years down the line, since then, they have been going into the electrical intake cupboard on the ground floor of my communal block and had ripped out my TV ariel connection, on *numerous* occasions - with the last incident being less than a fortnight ago. But yet WCC don'tgive a damn. The situation is that whilst they have reckless *Oakray* out there doing jobs and causing so much damage, *no-one* will be safe - because they are a dangerous liability and a major accident waiting to happen.     

The natural world and the impact to the environment and beauty of the Slough canal will be affected along with plants flowers and all species of animals who live here. We are trying to save a beautiful area from destruction. The canal was built over 142 years ago and we must preserve this heritage for the future.

This means that each partner can have their own version of the petition to grow their mailing list with, or we can share a version with everyone's opt-in on it. 

This would ensure that members of the public are aware of what is actually happening in their area. It would confirm if treatment plants are over or near capacity. This would ensure that when new building works are being proposed members of the public and local government have all the information needed to make an informed decision. It would also show the government where new builds could be safely built, without harm to the people and the environment. At the moment there is only population capacity treatment data available through the Environment Agency. This only includes population, we need to know how many businesses are also on each sewage treatment plant. Lastly, we need to know how the treatment plant is performing, when was maintenance last performed and what are its issues. 

Over 75's are an important part of our communities and contribute so much with their experience and knowledge which they share with others. An increasing amount are struggling with household bills and cuts to services which they rely on. A free TV licence would at least mean one less bill to worry about and give them comfort and company when they are alone.