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Conservative councillor, Chris Whitehouse claims the '£30m pa for 30 years' Solent Deal is "not new or additional money". If true, the Leader of the council says it would undermine all the promises from the Government.
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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A pattern seems to be emerging whereby Conservative councillors make accusations about the Island Independents (they're the group in charge of the council) which are quickly shown to be inaccurate. Cllr Bacon says it is not possible to work with those who would rather just throw stones.
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The Island Independents say it's become clear that the Conservative councillors have no wish to support Islanders and are only interested in taking power and making cuts.
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The Conservative Government asked Isle of Wight council to appeal school holiday fines case, others remind Conservative councillor and MP.
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It looks like the rumours we published were right. Here's the full list of the now-expanded Executive of the Isle of Wight council, following Conservative Dave Stewart being voted in as Leader this week.
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Only two weeks ago - while in opposition - Cllr Chris Whitehouse called the Supreme Court case against Jon Platt a “vindictive harassment”, labelling it "an arrogance of power". Now he’s Executive member for Children’s Services, OnTheWight asked Cllr Whitehouse if he will withdraw the case.
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When challenged on if he'd drop the Jon Platt school case, Cllr Whitehouse stated a legal agreement had been entered into by Cllr Bacon with the DfE limiting what Cllr Whitehouse can say. This morning Cllr Bacon says, "there is no such ‘legal agreement’," presenting what he claims as evidence.
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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 Council’s Executive will consider a proposal to add “children of staff” to the over-subscription criteria list within admissions arrangements for schools.
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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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The Isle of Wight Conservatives say they are setting up joint approach to keep young talent from leaving the Island after figures show there is a "net outflow of people aged 15 to 29 and a net inflow of people aged 60-69".
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Questions were raised at last week's full council meeting about the educational attainment of home educated children on the Isle of Wight.
