Posts Tagged ‘children’
Friday, April 13th, 2018
CRT is currently attempting to re-brand itself as an organisation promoting well-being. The purpose of the re-branding is to raise funds from local authorities and the NHS for the promotion of health and well-being of the general population. However CRT appears to have no intention of safeguarding the well-being of boat dwellers, even vulnerable ones.
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Tags: Boater eviction, children, continuous cruising, CRT rebranding, enforcement, eviction, Health, liveaboards, NHS, school, wellbeing
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Friday, September 8th, 2017
On 14th February 2017 the Waterways Ombudsman stated in a case report (Case no 933) that CRT intended in the coming weeks to publish “illustrative cruising patterns” for liveaboard boaters with school age children. In the Navigation Advisory Group meeting of 13th February 2017, former Head of Boating Mike Grimes stated: “We’re looking at putting together and publish soon some example compliant movement patterns that boaters with children could look at to help inform their movement patterns”.
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Tags: Bathampton School, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, CRT Navigation Advisory Group, enforcement, families, Fitzmaurice School, FOI requests, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Mike Grimes, Richard Parry, school, Waterways Ombudsman
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Sunday, April 23rd, 2017
A group of fourteen boaters from the K&A joined the national Boats Are Homes march on Saturday 8th April 2017. The demonstration was organised in protest against CRT’s unlawful enforcement policy against boaters without home moorings. Boat dwellers from all over the waterways took part. The march was organised by the National Bargee Travellers Association.
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Tags: children, continuous cruising, DEFRA, demonstration, education, enforcement, families, liveaboards, NBTA, petition
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Saturday, September 3rd, 2016
On Thursday 15th September at 5pm, CRT Chief Richard Parry will launch a CRT publicity boat at Devizes Wharf SN10 1EB as part of the K&A Waterways Partnership AGM.
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Tags: boating community, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, demonstration, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, Local Waterway Partnership, Protest, Richard Parry, school
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Thursday, August 11th, 2016
Around 30 boat dwellers without home moorings and supporters from the local community took part in a protest opposite Canal & River Trust’s (CRT) office in Devizes on 6th August 2016.
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Tags: boating community, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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Wednesday, August 10th, 2016
We are now able to publish the minutes of the meeting between liveaboard boaters, Michelle Donelan MP and CRT Chief Executive Richard Parry. The meeting was minuted by Wiltshire Council’s Peter Dunford, Community Engagement Manager for Bradford on Avon. Also included is a record of the discussions. You can download them here:
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Tags: Bathampton School, Bradford-on-Avon, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, enforcement, families, Fitzmaurice School, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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Friday, August 5th, 2016
BBC Radio Wiltshire Breakfast Show will feature tomorrow’s protest against CRT’s punitive and unlawful enforcement policy towards boaters without home moorings. Listen out for the live interview at 7.25am.
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Tags: BBC, BBC Radio Wiltshire, boating community, boating in the media, children, community, CRT continuous cruising policy, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, school
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Tuesday, July 19th, 2016
Liveaboard boaters and their supporters are invited to join a protest at Caen Hill, opposite CRT’s office in Devizes at 2.00pm on Saturday 6th August 2016 to express our opposition to CRT’s punitive and unlawful enforcement policy against boaters without home moorings. This policy has seen so many liveaboard boaters on the K&A having their licences restricted to 6 months, threatened with losing their homes, being pressured to give up their homes, and boat children’s education and welfare suffering due to the long distances they are being forced to travel to school.
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Tags: boating community, children, community, continuous cruising, CRT continuous cruising policy, Devizes, enforcement, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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Monday, July 4th, 2016
A primary school head condemned CRT’s enforcement policy against boats without home moorings as “inhumane” because of its detrimental effect on boat children, in a meeting between CRT chief Richard Parry and local MP Michelle Donelan.
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Tags: Bathampton School, Bradford-on-Avon, children, community, enforcement, families, Fitzmaurice School, liveaboards, Michelle Donelan MP, Richard Parry, school
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