STRONGER NORTHEAST : STRONGER BRITAIN

RICHARD BROOKS

OVER 20 YEARS ALLEVIATING POVERTY IN THE NORTHEAST

Cllr Richard Brooks co-founded the national mulit-award winning charity TLC which helps to alleviate poverty, isolation and loneliness in Scotland, and in particular the Northeast. He has over 20 years of front-line experience and has been courted for his commentary by STV, BBC and various satelite platforms on food, fuel and child poverty. Having been elected in May 2022, he is now pushing national and local government to take action.

SPEAKING UP FOR THOSE WHO CANNOT SPEAK UP FOR THEMSELVES

#TurningTheVolumeUp

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Turning the Volume up for the Northeast

Richard turning the volume up again on Scotland's Child Poverty

It is totally unacceptable that nearly a quarter of all Scotland's Children live in poverty.

8000 children in Aberdeen live in deprivation and food poverty.

That is 20% of our population. With an SNP-led Scotland having the worst child poverty in Europe for most of the last decade, what is this SNP-led administration going to do? I will not let them get away with doing nothing!

Protection for women and cildren in the same-sex facilities debate

A Notice of Motion was brought by the Conservative Party (M.Kusznir) instructing officers to develop a separate or single-sex space policy for Aberdeen City Council that ensures the protection of single-sex spaces in Council owned buildings.Debates following the proposed Gender Recognition (Scotland) Bill informs our need to act now to ensure single sex spaces are protected for the safety of our women and children. Despite my petitioning, and an hour of debate, the SNP chose to sit on their hands and voted to do absolutely NOTHING for the people of Aberdeen!

"Let's hope that politicians at every level of government listen to Richard Brooks when he says people need a hand up not just a hand out."

Evening Express, 27 June 2017