• Reforms restore fairness, ensuring low- and middle-income households are no longer subsidising the most expensive homes
• Contents insurance should fall to £25 a year for millions of households in council tax Bands A and B
• New measures to boost resilience, including Flood Performance Certificates and stronger “Build Back Better” support
Read MoreSarah Champion, Member of Parliament for Rotherham, will urge the Government to rethink its approach to recycling charges in order to protect jobs in Rotherham.
Sarah will lead a Parliamentary debate on the impact of Packaging Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) on UK packaging manufacturers on Wednesday, 1st July. EPR is a fee charged to packaging manufacturers to hold them accountable for costs of managing packaging waste throughout its lifecycle.
Record number of children in England now have access to mental health support teams – with almost 80% of secondary schools covered
New Mental Health Support Team in training at South Yorkshire NHS Integrated Care Board
Labour on track to deliver support in every school and college by the end of 2029
Rotherham’s Pride in Place project has taken a significant step forward with the appointment of a Chair to lead the Pride in Place Board, which will determine how funding will be spent. The new Chair has been announced by Sarah Champion MP as Eleanor Lockley, from Rotherham East Ward.
Eleanor is a long-standing Rotherham resident, an academic and a governor of a Rotherham school and will lead the Board to deliver on the scheme’s ambitious objectives.
Sarah Champion MP is one of 12 co-sponsors of the Hunting Act 2004 (Amendment) Bill, which has been presented to Parliament. Fox hunting has continued despite the 2004 Hunting Act under the guise of “trail hunting” - a smokescreen used to hunt foxes with hounds.
Read MoreThe MP for Rotherham who backed a campaign for a new law to equalise hate crime laws for LGBT+ and disabled people has expressed her delight that the change she campaigned on for a decade has now been passed by MPs and will become law.
She also welcomed the Government’s move to introduce a new crime of hate motivated by misogyny for the first time.
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