My priorities for Stoke-on-Trent South

Business, skills and secure jobs

Education and children's services

Business, skills and secure jobs

Work with our retail businesses and councils to re-energise our high streets learning, for example, from the success of Longton Exchange and Stone town centre.
Attract investment from manufacturing and services businesses to provide secure, well-paid jobs.
Maximise our growing potential as a centre for green, medical and agricultural technology.
Build a strong focus on apprenticeships and developing social contracts with our business sector.

Health and social care

Education and children's services

Business, skills and secure jobs

Tackle the root causes of poverty and ensure there is strong social security support for those in need.
Work with GP surgeries locally to improve access, in Parliament to change the NHS dental contract and improve much-needed dental care.
Improve access to mental health care for our young people and adults so they can stay close to home.
Better facilities for drug and alcohol rehabilitation and people experiencing domestic violence.

Education and children's services

Education and children's services

Education and children's services

Provide safe and well-built schools that deliver a broad and inspiring curriculum fit for all our children.
Ensure teaching remains a valued profession, with better pay and conditions to improve retention.
Rebuild home-link and support services to reduce truancy, under-attainment and the number of children sent into care.
Provide better services, training and support for children with special needs, in schools and the community.

Improving our transport systems

Improving our transport systems

Education and children's services

Campaign for our councils to have the power to run our bus services to suit our local needs and provide better buses.
Rebuild our local rail services, supporting Longton, Blythe Bridge and Stone stations and improve accessibility.
Campaign to speed up the electrification of the Derby to Crewe line.
Address the Tory failure delivering HS2 and fight to ensure our wider connectivity.

Agriculture and environment

Improving our transport systems

Crime and community policing

Work with farmers to manage the impact on climate change
Address the impact of leaving the Single Market on the supply chain and the cost of products such as fertiliser and animal feed.
Work to increase the support provided to farmers by the UK Government and to manage high energy prices.
Support investment and training in use of modern technology to improve productivity and enhance job opportunities in the sector.

Crime and community policing

Improving our transport systems

Crime and community policing

Campaign to re-classify monkey dust as a 'Class A' drug and work with police to combat the supply chain.
Campaign to re-introduce local police stations and community policing, and provide the investment needed.
Campaign to renationalise the probation service and for better access to rehabilitation services
Support the police in improving training to manage domestic violence and rape cases.