http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/newsarchive.php Recent News Stories from Hounslow Liberal Democrats en-GB Hounslow Liberal Democrats http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/ Prater Raines Ltd http://www.praterraines.co.uk/ (c) 2010 Hounslow Liberal Democrats 2010-02-09T12:37+00:00 United Kingdom http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/news/000367/lib_dems_attack_extreme_cuts_proposed_by_tories_to_keep_council_tax_increases_at_0.html Lib Dem Group Leader Cllr Dakers this evening attacked a range of cuts proposed by the Tories ahead of the March 2010 budget. He said that whilst the Lib Dems were committed to keeping Council tax low there was a need for common sense to be applied and that removing school uniform grants for the borough's poorest children and subsidies to community organisations using facilities in schools was a step too far. 2009-11-24T00:00+00:00 http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/news/000329/lib_dems_condemn_conservative_call_for_profit_driven_school_management.html The Leaders of the Local Government Association Labour and Liberal Democrat Groups today strongly criticised the call by the LGA Chairman Sir Simon Milton for private sector companies to run schools at a profit, as reported in today's Times. 2008-06-27T00:00+01:00 http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/news/000228/new_tory_council_leaves_eden_school_homeless.html Hounslow's new Tory-Community Group administration has left The Eden School, an independent Seventh Day Adventist school of sixty children, without a home after they were evicted from Hounslow Council-owned St George's Community Hall in Brentford on Monday 20th October. Since yesterday (Monday 6th November) the school have been taking classes at the Treaty Centre Library. Cllr Andrew Dakers, Leader of Hounslow Liberal Democrats, has accused the new administration of precipitating the action in a cowardly way without putting in place any contingency plan. 2006-11-07T00:00+00:00 http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/news/000200/lib_dems_launch_online_petition_against_homophobic_bullying.html The Liberal Democrats have launched an online petition as part of their campaign to tackle homophobic bullying in schools. Commenting, Andrew Dakers, Liberal Democrat group leader on Hounslow Council, said: "We have launched a petition calling for all schools in Hounslow Borough to develop measures to tackle homophobic bullying. Taunts and name calling should be challenged immediately so that it's clear such behaviour won't be tolerated. 2006-06-02T00:00+01:00 http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/news/000131/invest_in_early_years_education__dakers__khalsa.html Children in Hounslow will gain from Liberal Democrat plans to invest £1.5 billion in early years education, their Parliamentary Candidates Andrew Dakers (Brentford & Isleworth) and Satnam Kaur Khalsa (Feltham & Heston) say. 2005-04-28T20:38+01:00 http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/news/000123/letter_jamies_dinners.html As many commentators have noted, the government's decisions on school dinners in the past few weeks seem rather too much like bandwagon politics. After a complete absence of any action in the previous eight years it is a sad indictment of Labour's effectiveness in government that it takes the intervention of a celebrity chef to spark some action. Was it that hard to figure out? 2005-04-03T00:00+01:00 http://www.hounslowlibdems.org.uk/news/000047/hounslow_pupil_overcrowding_doubled_since_1997__dakers__khalsa.html Andrew Dakers, Prospective MP for Brentford & Isleworth, and Satnam Kaur Khalsa, Prospective MP for Feltham & Heston, today revealed that the number of pupils in Hounslow's secondary schools being taught in classes of 31 or more has rocketed by 98% since Labour came to power. This is way above the average outer London increase of 46%. In addition, the number of pupils in classes of 26 or more has gone up by 25% in outer London. 2005-02-28T00:50+00:00