Get Involved with Fife Council budget For the first time in the history of local government in Fife, the new Administration has published a draft budget setting out what it proposes to cut to balance the books as well as out lining the areas where it intends to invest. You can take part […]
Scottish Youth Parliament members take their campaign for a Fair Wage to Fife Council Fife Labour has proposed in its draft budget to introduce the ‘Living Wage’ for all Council employees. This will result in 2,000 workers receiving an increase in their wage bringing them up to £7.50 an hour. We do so because […]
In May this year Fife Labour set out a key pledge to support and help create more apprenticeship and training places for Fife’s young people. Now some seven months on since taking control of the Fife Council administration at that election, Fife Labour has brought forward and agreed through Fife Council a £5m […]
A review of the literature by Ruth Calman The start of the school year is a busy time for Ontario principals, as they work with their teams to implement their school improvement plans. An effective school is most certainly the aim of these plans. But what does effectiveness really look like? And how […]
Call for action on fence. Alex Rowley highlights the problem of the motorway fence in Kelty. Lochs councillor Alex Rowley is stepping up his campaign to get a motorway fence which he says is ‘dangerous’ and ‘an accident waiting to happen’ repaired. Mr Rowley told the Times that he has been making representations over many […]
Massive profits but not for communities! As the numbers of land based wind turbine applications continues to grow across Fife, Fife Council has now put in place a review of the current guidelines and landscape capacity assessment for land based turbines that will see a far reaching consultation take place across Fife and […]
“Welfare reform should not be about an attack on the old and disabled” Alex Rowley Fifers could lose up to £40 million following the UK Government’s welfare reforms, according to a report prepared for the council’s Executive Committee. With around 40,000 people receiving welfare benefits in Fife, individuals, families, communities and the […]
Craige Paterson, Lesley Hay, Michelle Sutter, Paddy Feenie Fifes new provost Jim Leishman and Fife Council leader Alex Rowley met up with charity shop workers Craig Paterson, Lesley Hay, Michelle Sutter and Paddy Feenie of DEBRA in Dunfermline to promote the national campaign to generate charity […]
Fife Council leader Alex Rowley met with NHS Fife bosses on Friday and set out his concerns around the new hospital in Kirkcaldy. The Labour leader also confirmed to NHS Chairman Professor James McGoldrick and Chief Executive John Wilson that the new administration in Fife Council will put health and social care at […]
It was a great honour for me to be re-elected for the Lochs ward to serve on Fife Council. The ward starts from the west in Kingseat and takes in the villages of Kelty, Ballingry, Lochore, Crosshill and Glencraig as well as a large rural area around Loch Fitty, Loch Glow, Gask and […]