I have lived in the village of Peppard since 1975 but have roots in Sonning Common and surrounding villages that go back even further. Both my children attended the local state schools and King James’s (now Henley) College. My entire professional life has been in various roles in secondary and higher education. I served a term as governor at Chiltern Edge School and have been a parish councillor for the last 3 years. I also work hard as a volunteer for Oxfam. I am a passionate campaigner for the NHS and Education. I care deeply about the conservation of the Oxfordshire countryside and wildlife and I am a member of the Campaign for the Preservation of Rural England (CPRE) and the Woodlands Trust.

Why these Elections are important• The Tories are running the country down and SHRINKING THE STATE • Our NHS is broken and Social Care is in crisis• Falling home ownership and growing homelessness• Fewer opportunities for children • Declining living standards• Life expectancy projections are falling• Big business interests are blighting our villages and countryside• Local democracy is being eroded.

The Tory government is on a mission to dismantle local government and privatise the public sector. After 6 years of failed austerity, Councillors in wealthy Oxfordshire are struggling to maintain what remains of our local services.

VOTE for VERONICA TREACHER on THURSDAY 4 MAY

Oxfordshire County Council Election

VERONICA TREACHERSonning Common Division(Binfield Heath, Bix and Assendon, Eye & Dunsden, Harpsden, Highmoor, Rotherfield Greys, Rotherfield Peppard, Shiplake, Sonning Common)

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HEALTH AND SOCIAL CAREYears of NHS funding cuts and asset-stripping, massive top-down re-organisations, unprecedented cuts in Social Care budgets, and staff recruitment crises all mean vulnerable people going without adequate care and hospitals unable to discharge patients.Labour Councillors will make a difference:• Fight to restore adequate funding from national government• Take Care Work back in-house with complementary training and professional development programmes and fair pay.• Take steps to take back failed private care homes with poor employment practices.• Refuse to rubber stamp the Oxfordshire Transformation Plan (OTP).• Campaign for the Reinstatement of the Secretary of State’s duty to provide a publicly funded NHS free at the point of use, removed by the 2012 Health and Social Care Act.

EDUCATIONThe Government is imposing £3bn. real terms funding cuts on schools by freezing per-pupil funding while inflation and pension and N.I. contributions increase. All schools are affected. Average budget cuts will be 9.5% in primary and 8.7% in secondary schools. These cuts lead to bigger classes, cuts in curriculum offer, fewer teachers at a time of increasing pupil numbers. Many of our small rural schools may become unviable.Labour Councillors will• Support schools and campaign for fair funding.• Oppose the introduction of grammar schools• Work to try to maintain adequate funding for Children’s Centres and investment in children’s services, including Children and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) whose funding has been relentlessly slashed.• Aim to restore local libraries’& museums’ opening times and trained staff.

HOUSING AND PLANNINGThe Oxford Local Economic Partnership (OxLEP) growth plan forecasts 85,000 jobs by 2031, needing 100,000 houses. Local plans and housing allocations have incorporated the ”aggressive” OxLEP figures but they are unsustainable in social and environmental terms. Growth on this scale would sacrifice ‘protected’ northern Green Belt and AONB and would be universally unpopular. Planners are under pressure to allow development that threatens to blight our villages and countryside.A Labour-led Council will• Initiate a programme of building permanently affordable rented or shared ownership, housing on land owned by the County. It would be available to key workers – nurses, school and social care staff and would be managed alongside the County’s own housing stock.• Recognise the Tory government’s total failure to address the housing supply crisis and continues to exacerbate the situation with Right–to-Buy and Help-to-Buy policies that shovel money into the pockets of the development sector.• Constrain profit-greedy developers who take advantage of Neighbourhood Development Plans that are too easily subverted by speculators. Instead of ‘putting power firmly back in the hands of the people’, as was claimed, the planning process is more centralised and local democracy fails.

If elected, I will campaign with Sonning Common to preserve the integrity of their NDP and prevent further encroachment on SON 6. I will also work with Eye and Dunsden to reject the proposal by Gladman Development Company to build 245 units of urban sprawl on precious Green Belt between South Oxfordshire and Reading.

PRIORITIES FOR SONNING COMMON DIVISION In addition to dealing with a plague of potholes:

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VOTE for VERONICA TREACHER on THURSDAY 4 MAYPromoted by David Winchester on behalf of Veronica Treacher at 1 Kennylands Road, Sonning Common, Reading, RG4 9JR.Printed by Pixel Beach Ltd. 2 Highdown Hill Road Emmer Green Reading RG4 8QP.

“Only a Labour - led council will restore our local services. For a healthy, civilized society, let’s put the ‘public’ back into public services”

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