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Issue 409 June 2019 Now reaching 3500 people every month Dedication WARD ROUNDS P4 OUR COUNTY COUNCILLOR’S REPORT P9 LAUNCHING OUR 2020 CALENDAR COMPETITION P29 SUPPORT STILTON GOLFER’S MARATHON CHARITY EVENT FOR MACMILLAN P15 Stilton resident Mrs Shirley has been honoured by Stilton School for her 25 years of dedicated service as a well-loved Teaching Assistant. Read the Head Teacher’s tribute to her on page 15. INCORPORATING FOLKLORE, FOR READERS IN FOLKSWORTH AND THE SURROUNDING VILLAGES SCAN 409 June 2019 SCAN is published by The Stilton Community Association. All articles, original artwork and the SCAN name and logo are copyright. All trade marks recognised. Views of contributors are not necessarily endorsed by The Stilton Community Association. Reprints available from the Editor on request. Editor: Advertising: Production: Distribution: Olive Main 241206 Christine Kime 243336 Kelvin Davis 244140 Hazel James, Pat Anslow Advertising Rates: Monthly Annual (From 1st January 2019) Full page: £45 £495 19 x 12.7 cm Half page: £30 £330 9 x 12.7 cm landscape - 19 x 6 cm portrait 1/3 page: £20 £220 6 x 12.7 cm landscape - 12.5 x 6 cm portrait 1/6 page: £10 £110 6 x 6 cm All advertising copy or instructions to the Advertising Manager by 10th of month prior to publication. Payment in advance to Stilton Community Association - NO PAY, NO DISPLAY! Advertisement orders MUST be accompanied by the advertiser’s name, address and telephone number. We recommend you use the order form on www.stilton.org/village-life/scan/advertising-in-scan/ All other copy to the Editor, 8 Caldecote Road, Stilton by 14th of month prior to publication. Digital material in a neutral PC format please. email: [email protected] Printed by clanpress www.clanpress.co.uk Index to Advertisers Grey Bin Days: Mon 3rd, 17th June; Category Service Page 1st July Retail Food & Drink 6, 7, 8 Furnishings 41 Pharmacy 33 Health & Exercise 44 Garden Bin Days: Fitness Foot care 46, 47 Fri 14th, 28th June; 12th July Financial Accountancy / Payroll 39, 47 Animals Vet, pet care 40 Personal Hair & Beauty 41, 47 Recycling Bins: Counselling 42 Trades Building services 45, 46, 47 Mon 10th, 24th June; Conservatories 44 8th July Heating / Plumbing 39, 46 Electrical / TV 37 Computer services 32 Please put your bins out Garden services 40, 45 after 6pm on the Recycling 40 day before collection Removals 42 Print services 14 Vehicle services 47, 48 www.huntingdonshire.gov.uk/bins Travel Community bus 43 Professional Architect / Civils 43 Funeral services 45 For children Pre-school 40, 43 2 Be sure to tell our advertisers you found them in SCAN! SCAN 409 June 2019 The Parish Pump Local News Parish Council Details MAKE A NOTE As we reported last month, there have been The role of Finance Officer is currently some personnel changes at Stilton Parish vacant - see the advert in this issue. Council. So here is the current list of Councillors: Simon Steward is holding the fort as Parish Clerk until Mary Croll’s successor can be Mark Angus (Chairman) appointed. You can contact him by email Olive Leonard to: [email protected], Tel: John Leonard 07484 746894 or by snailmail to: The Parish Philip Shailer Meeting Room, Church Street, Stilton. Keith Bull Dee Darnell The PC maintains up to date information Sue Ayres about its members, meetings etc on its Barry Gilden website: www.stiltonparishcouncil.org Vicky Dorling Simon Steward (Interim Parish Clerk) Calling All Seniors Upcoming Events Looking for a friendly and welcoming social If you have a one-off event fixed in the next circle? Why not join the Friday Social few months please contact the Editor - Group? It meets in Stilton Church Meeting 241206 or [email protected] Room from 2 - 4pm every week. JUNE Enjoy good company with a game of Whist 1st & 2nd Tour of Cambs Bike Race or Dominoes and maybe a prize at Bingo. 16th & 30th Easy Sunday Concerts 22nd Folksworth Book Fayre For more details please contact Dianne Glen JULY (07400 693351) 7th Folksworth Village Fete It costs just £1 per session to meet expenses. SEPTEMBER 20-22nd Twinning Trip to Ghent (FULL!) Be sure to tell our advertisers you found them in SCAN! 3 SCAN 409 June 2019 Ward Rounds - 2 REPORT TO PARISH COUNCILS FROM COUNTY COUNCILLOR SIMON BYWATER As another financial year comes to an end, My District Councillor colleagues, Cllr Tim I thought it timely to give you a brief Alban, Cllr Marge Beuttell and Cllr Dick overview of what has been, for me, a very Tuplin have supported me with many issues busy year. Most of you will have seen me this year and continue to work for their around the ward tackling local issues that communities, for which I am very grateful. affect residents, such as pot holes, dangerous trees, road signs, fly tipping, liaising with At Cambridgeshire County Council, as an Highways officers and assisting in the Local elected member I hold additional roles and Highway initiatives. responsibilities: I have spent many hours with residents and Chairman of the Children and Young community groups helping to address Peoples Committee (CYP). This is by far concerns and anxieties over large-scale my biggest commitment at the County planning applications in Sawtry, Stilton, Council, for which I was selected by Full Holme and the two crematoria in Kings Council. It is a role I am very passionate Ripton. I have attended many HDC District about and take extremely seriously. It is a Planning committee meetings raising statutory and county-wide responsibility for concerns over the impacts on our Children's Social Services and Local communities and in particular infrastructure Authority Education services. This involves pressures. I will continue to support Parish meeting a wide variety of partners and Councils and communities during this stakeholders to ensure the CC are doing their complex and very often frustrating process. very best for all young people in Cambridgeshire. You can see the work we I have worked tirelessly to help many local have been doing in the committee here: residents with a variety of issues that are https://cambridgeshire.cmis.uk.com/ccc_liv important to them, which includes health e/Committees/tabid/62/ctl/ViewCMIS_Co and social care issues, housing worries, mmitteeDetail s/mid/381/id/4/Default.aspx school places, school transport, special During the past 12 months the CYP education needs, care plan support and some committee has looked at and made a huge very complex disputes involving a wide number of decisions relating to policy and variety of agencies from Police, strategy. One such complex item was the Environment Agency, Fire Service Planning way CCC delivers Children's Social Care, and the Health and Safety Executive. One known as the Change for Children such issue has taken me to the highest level Programme, developed to address some of Government and was duly supported by longstanding challenges in delivering our MP Shailesh Vara for which I and the children's social care services in residents are very grateful. Cambridgeshire. Children's Social care is very expensive but also vital to those children requiring help. The change to a 4 Be sure to tell our advertisers you found them in SCAN! SCAN 409 June 2019 district-based model was implemented in for delivering a fire & rescue service to the December 2018. A recent Ofsted report of 805,000 people of Cambridgeshire and children's Social Care found Peterborough. Cambridgeshire to have ‘good leadership’ www.cambsfire.gov.uk/about-us.aspx but agreed that we required improvement in other areas which we had previously In Feb 2019 Cambridgeshire full council set identified as part of the change programme. its budget. Members heard that despite Following this report, and due to some great investing in a range of innovative, work by our officers, the Department for ambitious, transformation and efficiency Education has awarded Trailblazer status to plans, the situation could have been much Cambridgeshire County Council. This will worse. The County Council was still allow us to implement the Family projecting a budget gap for 2018/19 of Safeguarding model, which will allow us to £4.3m even after including a proposed 2% share in a significant amount of additional Adult Social Care Precept. Debate had seen funding to help us to implement the unity from all parties about the increase in approach. This is fantastic news for the council tax, but divided opinions on how Council, our staff and, most importantly, for the money raised should be spent. The Adult our most vulnerable children and young Social Care Precept increase of 2% and the people. See more details on this website: Council Tax increase of 2.99% will add www.fenews.co.uk/press-releases/28085- £23.76 annually (46p weekly) and £35.64 new-84-million-project-to-strengthen- annually (68p weekly) respectively to a familiesand-safely-reduce-the-number-of- Band D property, before other precepting children-entering-care authorities such as city and district councils, fire and police add their amounts. Board member on Shared Services Education Board. This board looks at how At the meeting the Council's bid to achieve we can work more effectively and a fairer funding deal from government was collaboratively in education with further discussed as, despite being the fastest Peterborough City Council and thus growing county in the UK, Cambridgeshire recommend improvements and savings is the third-lowest funded. Members heard where appropriate. that if the County Council was funded at the same rate as an average London Borough Lead member on The Cambridgeshire it would receive £75m a year more in and Peterborough Safeguarding Children Revenue Support Grant from central Board (CPSCB) This is the key statutory government, and if it was funded at the same body overseeing arrangements for rate as an average UK County Council it safeguarding children and young people would be £13.7m a year better funded.