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Cambridgeshire Lib Dems have today announced ambitious plans to improve education, create jobs and fund more policing for the people of Wisbech.
They have outlined their ideas for the Fenland town in their alternative budget for Cambridgeshire County Council.
“The people of Wisbech have been ignored for too long by the Tories running the county council,” said Lib Dem Leader, Kilian Bourke.
“Transport links to the town are poor, people are struggling to find work and bored teenagers are causing trouble. It is time more action was taken to solve these problems and our alternative budget aims to do just that.”
“We would open the Wisbech line, ensure that the town had the fastest broadband outside Cambridge, and invest in extra teachers in classrooms and PCSO’s on the streets, to improve education and community safety. These targeted extra investments, taken together, would make a real difference.”
Lib Dems propose to improve education in the town by:
Attracting and keeping more good young teachers by bringing back an hourly train service to Cambridge and connections to Peterborough and London by reopening the railway line for passengers and freight.
Giving an extra £250 per year for every pupil who receives free school meals in two of the Wisbech area’s poorest primary schools allowing these schools to employ more teachers, cut class sizes and buy more books.
Investing in the youth service to reduce the number of bored teenagers resorting to anti-social behaviour or crime and being a bad influence on their classmates in and out of school.
And they have plans to create jobs by:
Making sure that Wisbech benefits from early improvement to the county’s broadband network finishing up with the fastest connection in the county outside the Cambridge area.
Providing young people out of school with the means to get to job interviews and a new job when they get one. This would break the cycle where young people are repeatedly excluded from getting work by the cost and difficulty of getting to interviews or a new job.
The Lib Dems’ alternative budget also includes funding for two extra Police Community Support Officers to tackle burglary and repeat offending and increases funding for public transport.
“There is much that can be done to improve the life of people living in Wisbech, but for too long they have been treated as the poor relations to others elsewhere in Cambridgeshire,” said Cllr Kevin Wilkins, Shadow Cabinet Member for Planning, Enterprise and Environment.
“The Lib Dems would both deal with the problems faced by Wisbech and make sure residents and employers are better able to create jobs and get jobs than they can now.”
“And Wisbech’s schools would get more money from the Lib Dems and would find it easier to keep good teachers.”
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