
Julia Armstrong
Local Democracy Reporter at The Star (Sheffield)
Local democracy reporter covering Sheffield City Council, news partners using my work include Sheffield Star, Yorkshire Post, Yorkshire Live. NUJ member
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msn.com | Julia Armstrong
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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thestar.co.uk | Julia Armstrong
A Sheffield MP has called in the House of Commons for her government to immediately impose sanctions on the “genocidal regime” of Israel. Sheffield Heeley MP Louise Haigh told the Commons today (June 4): “It is impossible to conclude that what is happening in Gaza is anything short of genocide.
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thestar.co.uk | Julia Armstrong
Sheffield anti-austerity campaigners are joining a national protest in London this Saturday (June 7) to call for government spending on “welfare, not warfare”. The demonstration has been organised by campaign The People’s Assembly and will march to Whitehall for a rally. It has been called in response to what it describes as “a groundswell of anger” at government spending cuts that target the poorest and most vulnerable.
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thestar.co.uk | Julia Armstrong
School exclusion rates have “risen sharply” in Sheffield in recent years, with 190 pupils removed in this academic year alone. Sheffield City Council is addressing the lack of both a city-wide strategy to prevent and respond to exclusions and insufficient alternative provision for excluded children at a meeting of the education, children and families policy committee next Tuesday (June 10).
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aol.com | Julia Armstrong
Children are facing "unacceptably long" waits for neurodiversity services after the number of referrals increased threefold in five years in Sheffield, according to a new report. Meredith Dixon-Teasdale, Sheffield City Council's strategic director of children's services, said an overhaul of the existing system was needed to enable services to cope with the rising demand.
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