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.
Cllr Brading says he's grateful to Katharine Spencer-Brown for starting the Red Box Project on the Isle of Wight and adds that the Isle of Wight council is pleased to work with her.
Proof that ending period poverty can help improve attendance at school has been realised at a school in Portsmouth where it has increased by almost a third since the Red Box Project was introduced.
The cabinet member for education and children's services said “I do not like it when councillors try to make political gains out of our children. The debate went off on a tangent, and it went on for far too long."
The Red Box Project have shared their disappointment that 21 Isle of Wight councillors chose not to support Cllr Lilley's motion without it removing the name of the project. Here's their response.
Cabinet member captured browsing the Web for trousers during a discussion about sensitive and controversial plans for the Isle of Wight Fire Service. Cllr Ward appears dismissive.
As well as a Cabinet reshuffle, the Annual Meeting of the Isle of Wight council saw re-election of Chairman and Vice-Chairman as well as Chairs of the various committees.
Following last night's big old clear out at the Isle of Wight Conservative Association, here's what David Pugh's got to say from the top seat. OnTheWight also asks Chris Whitehouse a series of questions to see if he'll back up his talk with actions, re: exiting the Conservative fray?
Isle of Wight council cabinet members have agreed a proposed strategy for investing £100,000,000 in property. Any decisions to purchase property will be delegated to a group of three.
The newly-elected Conservative Isle of Wight MP, Bob Seely, took a delegation of councillors and officers to meet the Department for Education today to put forward their case on behalf of the Sandown community.
The council say their plan will aim to ensure all schools on the Isle of Wight will be rated by Ofsted as 'Good' and least a quarter of them 'Outstanding' in the next four years.
The treatment of staff and pupils at Sandown Bay Academy by its sponsor, Academies Enterprise Trust, was described as appalling, atrocious and disappointing by councillors. They voted to have AET removed from all Island schools.