This week the Labour Party said it would make abolishing private schools one of its policies for the next general election. They also continued their attacks on grammar schools and called for the abolition of academies. The policy decision to remove the charitable status of private schools and redistribute their assets…
Read MoreDartford MP Gareth Johnson has called on a bus company providing Dartford schoolchildren with buses to and from their schools to provide additional services following complaints by parents that the service is overcrowded, unsafe and in many cases too full to even stop and pick their children up. Students from…
Read MoreThis week the Government announced that a further 14 crimes are to be added to the Unduly Lenient Sentencing (ULS) scheme. The ULS scheme allows anyone, including the victim of a crime or a member of the public, to appeal to the Attorney General for a sentence to be reviewed and possibly…
Read MoreDartford MP Gareth Johnson has welcomed the news that Delay Repay 15 has now started on Southeastern trains. The improved compensation scheme means that passengers who are faced with a delay of 15 minutes or more can claim a refund for part of their ticket instead of after a 30-minute…
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