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Sheila Oxtoby

Sheila Oxtoby

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EDUCATION

Tapping into the talent on our doorstep

By Sheila Oxtoby | 05 June 2023

Great Yarmouth BC's work on supported internships dovetails with its determination to have an inc...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Partnership delivers forward thinking regeneration

By Sheila Oxtoby | 25 April 2023

A new £21.4m campus - a partnership project between Great Yarmouth BC, Norfolk CC and the New A...

INFRASTRUCTURE

A safe end to a week-long drama in Great Yarmouth

By Sheila Oxtoby | 14 March 2023

The operation in Great Yarmouth to make a bomb safe was, to put it mildly, complex, says Sheila O...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

Potential investment from a Norfolk deal would be a huge boost

By Sheila Oxtoby | 23 January 2023

Sheila Oxtoby says the county deal for Norfolk might not be the one everyone would have liked or ...

LEGAL

We had little option but to take legal action around housing asylum seekers

By Sheila Oxtoby | 16 November 2022

Great Yarmouth is among a number of councils in the midst of legal proceedings around the accommo...

PLANNING

Protecting the welfare of asylum seekers in Great Yarmouth

By Sheila Oxtoby | 27 September 2022

The Home Office, with no advance notice and no funding, has left local authorities and health ser...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

What will the two leadership candidates mean for councils?

By Sheila Oxtoby | 08 August 2022

It is clear there are some major differences in the two Conservative leadership candidates' likel...

HEALTH

The right conversations are more powerful than structures

By Sheila Oxtoby | 21 June 2022

Tackling issues such as delayed hospital discharges is not about structures and powers, although ...

ECONOMIC GROWTH

We need more joined-up working between local and central Government

By Sheila Oxtoby | 04 May 2022

'Nutrient neutrality' regulations are well-meaning but the need to reduce our impact on the envir...

DEVOLUTION

Helping the mayoral medicine go down

By Sheila Oxtoby | 15 March 2022

There is a willingness to enter into negotiations on a county deal in good faith, but there seems...

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