Public meetings and report launches coming up next week:
Tuesday 7 February 2012 2012 skills and employment Economy, Culture and Sport Committee – 10am in Committee Room 5 The Committee will question the following guests about the skills and employment opportunities for Londoners during the Games:
Leading architect Sir Terry Farrell, and Ecologist founder Zac Goldsmith MP, will pick the winners of the Mayor's inaugural Low Carbon Prize. The search is on for the capital's brightest students with innovative ideas to cut carbon emissions. Finalists will have the chance to pitch their ideas in person to the eminent panel with a share of a £20,000 prize and a unique boost to their CV up for grabs.
The Mayor of London Boris Johnson today visited leading arts venue Watermans to officially switch on a new laser sculpture, which has been created as part of a series of wider improvements being made to Brentford town centre and surrounding areas, thanks to his Outer London Fund.
An emergency shelter funded by the Mayor of London, Boris Johnson, has been opened to offer a lifeline to rough sleepers in the capital during the freezing weather forecast for the days ahead.
Vulnerable rough sleepers who are out in sub-zero temperatures will be helped off the streets by trained outreach staff and into the shelter, which is being run by the homeless charity St Mungo’s.
What more can be done to secure brighter futures for more than 10,000 children[1] in care in London?
Next week, the London Assembly Health and Public Services Committee will hold a public hearing to explore the challenges facing children in care and the success of initiatives aimed at improving their prospects.
London has higher than average rates of looked after children, particularly in inner boroughs. Children in care often fare less well than their peers in education and a high proportion have additional educational needs.
Abstract: New figures fail to support Mayor’s claim that cycle safety has improved in the last few years.
Newly published official figures show that whilst cycling in London is safer than it was in 2000, the trend has reversed since around 2007/08. The annual casualty figures where already known, but the Travel in London report has now issued revised figures for the number of cycle journey stages per day, broken down by each year since 2000.
Thousands of schools across the capital will today (Feb 2) be able to find out how many free tickets they are set to receive to this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic Games. In line with the Mayor’s promise one in eight London school children will get a seat at the world's greatest sporting event at no cost to them, their school or the taxpayer.
The Mayor Boris Johnson has announced in final budget papers today, the first ever cut in the City Hall share of the council tax (GLA precept). This follows a three year freeze of the precept.
The Mayor has allocated funds in next year's budget to the issues that matter the most. He has secured an extra £90m from government to ensure that police on London streets can remain high for the foreseeable future, quadrupled the provision of rape crisis centres on the capital and is on course to deliver 50,000 affordable housing by the end of the year.
Assembly Members will tomorrow examine the environmental priorities London's Mayor should tackle next term [1], including how to cut carbon emissions[2] and improve air quality in the capital[3].
The Environment Committee will also look at what London’s Mayor should do in future to protect trees and green spaces[4] and to reduce the risk of flooding in London in the event of heavy rainfall[5] . In addition, members will discuss the potential of the green economy[6] to generate jobs in the capital.
The Mayor still has a considerable distance to go if he is to deliver on his aim to see 100,000 electric vehicles on the streets of London, a new report from the London Assembly says today[1].
Charging Ahead?, by the Assembly’s Environment Committee, says progress has been made since 2009, when the Mayor committed to making London the electric car capital of Europe[2], but he faces a formidable challenge ahead to achieve his targets.
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