My priorities include:
- Preventing over development in our communities
- Protecting our environment and tackling the climate emergency
- Promoting public transport and reducing congestion
- Seeking more ways to tackle homelessness and provide support and accommodation for rough sleepers in Leeds
- Continuing to deliver quality social care despite continuing cuts in funding
- Engaging the whole community to make sure all our voices are heard
As a councillor on Dacorum Borough Council I had a track record for getting things done including:
- Initiating and facilitating the creation of DENS, a homelessness charity providing emergency and move on accommodation for single homeless people
- Leading the implementation of projects to tackle long term unemployment including for young people, women returners, and people returning from mental health problems
- Setting up a neighbour mediation service and promoting the development of mediation to prevent youth homelessness as well as a schools mediation to tackle bullying in secondary schools, using young people as trained mediators.
