After months of hard work and painstaking research, Bedford based community group, Recovery Code X, is pleased to announce the launch of a new mental health initiative aimed at raising awareness of Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder across the county and providing self-help guidance to sufferers, their friends, family and partners.
Finance Ministers, International Finance Institutions and the financial sector met at COP26 today to get global finance flowing for climate action.
Ahead of the Comprehensive Spending Review, Bedford Liberal Democrats have written to the Chancellor, calling on the Government to deliver on their promise to support councils in their response to coronavirus to prevent massive increases in Council Tax and cuts to services.
The latest weekly Coronavirus snapshot for Bedford Borough has been published.
During Bike to School Week and ahead of next week's Climate Change Committee, Liberal Democrat Councillor Jake Sampson welcomed the success of the Green Travel Plan by the council's Sustainable Transport Team and said that "It's brilliant to see the Sustainable Transport Team being so active in getting schools to take responsibility for getting their students to school in an environmentally friendly way. I'm glad to see that the team has recognised the environmental damage which is being caused by idling cars. We have had an issue at a school in Newham Ward, where residents living nearby have complained about the noise and air pollution caused by parents waiting outside the school to pick up their children. Idling cars are a danger to children's health as they add toxic fumes into the air we breathe."
Commenting on the Government cut to Universal Credit, Liberal Democrat Councillor Dean Crofts said "The decision to rip support from millions of families across the country shows how completely out of touch the Prime Minister really is. He claims that he wants people to live by their own efforts rather than welfare. So either he doesn't know that almost half of those receiving Universal Credit are already in work or he doesn't care."
