Sarah Champion MP responds to ban on sex offenders changing their name, after years of campaigning
On Tuesday 25th February, the Government will announce new measures to limit sex offenders from changing their names, acting on Sarah Champion’s long-term campaign to close the legal loophole.
The new reforms mean that Registered Sex Offenders (RSOs) who pose a risk of using a new identity to offend, are to be banned from changing their names, unless explicitly approved by the police monitoring them.
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Sarah Champion MP backs Government plans to support and strengthen steelmaking in Rotherham
Government plans to fortify UK steelmaking were welcomed by Rotherham MP Sarah Champion as a crucial step to protect the proud industrial heritage in Rotherham and grow the economy.
The Plan for Steel – launched by Business Secretary Jonathan Reynolds earlier this month – will look at the long-term issues facing the industry like high electricity costs, unfair trading practices, and scrap metal recycling to protect jobs and living standards in the UK’s industrial heartlands.
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Coleridge Primary School to be one of the first to receive landmark free breakfast clubs
Families and children in Rotherham will soon benefit from free, daily breakfast clubs as the Labour government confirms the first 750 schools to offer the scheme, including Coleridge Primary School, putting up to £450 a year back in local parents’ pockets.
· Labour is rolling out free breakfast clubs to save working families up to £450 and set children up to start the day ready to learn
· First 750 schools to offer clubs from April, delivering on government’s Plan for Change
· 67,000 pupils in England’s most disadvantaged communities to benefit in first phase
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Sarah Champion MP welcomes almost 20K extra urgent dental appointments for South Yorkshire
The Labour Government has announced that hundreds of thousands of people, including in Rotherham, will soon be able to access urgent and emergency dental care as the NHS rolls out 700,000 extra urgent appointments, delivering on Labour’s manifesto commitment.
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Sarah Champion MP sends cross-party letter to the Prime Minister, calling for child abuse to be treated as a national priority.
Sarah Champion, MP for Rotherham, has been campaigning on child protection for over a decade. Today she sent a cross-party letter to the Prime Minister, signed by 25 MPs and Peers, calling on the UK Government to treat endemic child abuse as a national priority. Signatories include Ruth Cadbury MP, Robbie Moore MP, Monica Harding MP and others.
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Sarah Champion celebrates Labour Government’s funding boost for public health services in Rotherham
Sarah Champion has welcomed an increase in funding for public health services in Rotherham, the total amounting to an impressive £19,420,372 for the year 2025-26. This is part of the biggest real-terms increase, which amounts to £200 million nationally, after nearly a decade of reduced spending under the Conservatives.
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