Derby News reported a few days ago about how Boots were back-pedalling in the Derby Telegraph article on the issue of lost “prescriptions/tokens” from its Chaddesden store. Why is Boots, with the […]
On 23rd October, Derby News published Boots conceal from customers, breach of confidentiality ; 47 lost ‘prescriptions’ from its Chaddesden store which exposed the fact that Boots had chosen not to communicate […]
[The original version of this article referred to 400 prescriptions being lost ; this was the information from my source in Boots. Boots threatened legal action unless I reduced it to 47; […]
Since May 2018, there have been a number of reports presented to the Cabinet about gaps in the Council budget: 2018 / 19 – £21m gap ( £12m caused by the overspend […]
At the Executive Scrutiny Board last night ( 9th October), one of the many subjects on the agenda was “Improving Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND) Provision in Derby”. A comprehensive document which […]
The Council’s cross-party Executive Scrutiny Board robustly challenged the Council Cabinet’s position on the termination of the Sinfin Incincerator ( to be formally presented on the 10th October) “To defer any decision […]
In November 2017 the Council issued a consultation document on the strategy for Special Education Needs (SEN) children. Whilst the plan maintained annual funding, which is substantial at £55m pa, there were […]
PRESS RELEASE A Derby woman is putting on her glad rags and heading to London for a glitzy awards ceremony, after being shortlisted for a national special educational needs award. Karen Brownhill, […]
The Council’s Libraries Strategy has run aground! Despite overly positive rhetoric from Council Officers about how well the Libraries project is doing, the evidence does not bear this out at all. At […]
