Messages – 3rd January

Key Messages and News	Media Coverage
Cost of asylum seeking children revealed Surrey County Council is not receiving enough funding to cope with the number unaccompanied asylum seeking children entering the county	Daily Mail, BBC Surrey
Surrey’s Chief Fire Officer recognised in New Year Honours. Chief Fire Officer Russell Pearson awarded the Queen’s Fire Service Medal in the New Years Honours	Guardian, Get Surrey

	Views	Retweets, likes etc
Chief Fire Officer @SurreyFRS recognised in New Year Honours	4461	116
Councils in #Surrey successful in bid to government for business rate retention pilot…	3760	82
Minister @nickhurdUK: “Over his ten-year tenure as Chief Fire Officer @SurreyFRS, Russell Pearson has shown outstanding leadership and dedication to the Fire Service … I thank him for his professionalism and service”	3515	34
With some wintry conditions and cold temperatures forecast, our gritters will be hitting Surrey’s streets at 2pm today	3076	19
Surrey County Council leader David Hodge wants the laws requiring councils to #advertise notices modernised & is writing to the #government expressing concern about “the significant financial costs” of publishing them in print	2575	16