About Me
I’m a councillor and cabinet member on Canterbury City Council. I'm also an experienced local Labour campaigner who has been leading campaigns across East Kent for 15 years: from fighting to keep our hospitals safe, to saving our local children's centres. Although I now live in Whitstable, I've lived in both Canterbury and by the seaside here over the last twenty years.
As well as being a councillor, I'm a teacher (I run writing workshops in schools across Kent) and a part-time graduate student at the University of Kent. I'm also a mum to three young children, including one child with complex special needs (SEND). Fighting for better outcomes for children and families with SEND is something that is something both personal and political for me: an underfunded system for diagnoses and support, is failing people right across the UK, but particularly in Kent.
My Priorities
Although Kent has been hard hit by Conservative chaos over the past 13 years, these are the areas where I focus most of my campaigning
Tackling the Cost of Living
From the cost of childcare, to the cost of food and rent. I will prioritise action that puts people first.
Retaining Local NHS Services and Improving Outcomes
We need to ensure the recommendations of the Kirkup Report are followed.
Cleaning Up Our Seas & Protecting Green Spaces
I will work relentlessly to expand our parks, protect our Sites of Special Scientific Interest
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