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Questions of how much time some councillors spend on the Isle of Wight have been rumbling for months. They've all now been surveyed. Find out how your representative responded.
Chris Whitehouse
Chris Whitehouse was elected as Isle of Wight councillor for Newport West in May 2013.
Chris Whitehouse has previously been the Deputy Leader of South Bucks District Council.
He’s Managing Director of The Whitehouse Consultancy Ltd, which he founded in 1998.
He became Executive member for Children’s Services in January 2017, under the leadership of Conservative, Dave Stewart.
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Spearheaded by Katharine Spencer-Brown, the IW branch of Red Box Project has been a huge success on the Island, ensuring that young girls don't need to miss school anymore due to period poverty.
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More 16 and 17 year olds have been supported by being offered a suitable training or education place on the Isle of Wight than others in the South East region.
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The Isle of Wight Conservatives' spokesman on education says only five of the nine Isle of Wight secondary school premises are needed and calls for "radical surgery" and a need to "consolidate our high schools".
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UKIP say that the falsified-nomination accusations only came to light once they said no to Conservative requests to withdraw their candidate from Newport West.
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News of the council leader's new role on a national stage was announced at last night's full council meeting.
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Conservative Press Release claims, "Cllr Ian Stephens, announced that 'half of' the pledges in the Independents’ election manifesto, 'Framework For Change' would be abandoned over the next few months". The Indies say the points in the Framework weren't 'pledges', pointing to its Executive Summary which stated, "It is aspirational and to suggest otherwise is to build castles of sand."
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Leader of the Isle of Wight council, Dave Stewart, has pledged that all Island schools will be rated good or outstanding by Ofsted if the Conservatives are allowed to continue after May’s elections.
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During Wednesday's full council meeting, several councillors upped and left before the end of the meeting, missing an important vote on how the council handles applications for fracking on the Isle of Wight. One reader was disgusted enough at their actions that she's shared the letter she sent them the next day.
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Find out what your councillor has to say about the issues being debated at the November Isle of Wight full council meeting.
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The Island’s MP, Andrew Turner and leading Island Councillors are supporting a national campaign to redistribute funding from urban to rural areas.
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Changes to school league tables and examination re-sit arrangements have been welcomed by elected representatives on the Island.
