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Another busy week ahead - with debates, meetings and events ranging from sheep-worrying to education funding.

Great news for Boundstone and other maintained nurseries today - the Government will extend the supplementary funding paid to local authorities - by a sum of approximately £24 million - to enable them to fully-fund maintained nursery schools for the whole of the 2019/2020 academic year.  The w

The problem of unauthorised traveller encampments has been a nuisance in Adur and Worthing over many years, as it has in many parts of the country.

It was a pleasure to be able to attend a drop-in session in Parliament, where I learnt more about the ‘Fairtrade Foundation’s’ campaign for securing a living income for cocoa farmers.

From a glorious, sun-baked East Worthing, in this weekly look-ahead I discuss Brexit, Westminster debates including the Macpherson Report and funding for our West Sussex schools, local issues such as the Adur tidal walls flood defence scheme and more.

I took part in a fascinating and thought-provoking online Q&A session with The Telegraph yesterday as part of their ‘Duty of Care’ Campaign.

I seem to be spending a lot of time at the Sir Robert Woodard Academy recently but with good reason.

I was greatly encouraged following my meeting with the Home Secretary that there is real awareness and eagerness to act on the long-standing concerns raised by the public around unauthorised encampments. These can cause settled communities significant distress and perpetuate a negative image of the

My weekly look-ahead, where I talk about the Westminster schedule, today’s Labour split, Brexit and local constituency matters.

I am proud to be a sponsor of a bill introduced by my colleague Tom Tugendhat, which aims to bring sentencing powers for cases of child cruelty more in line with serious assaults on adults. Tony’s Law – named after a baby who had suffered life-changing injuries at the hands of his biological parent