GILL Boston is a qualified nurse and social worker and works at the University of Salford where she lectures in Health and Social Care.
Gill teaches and researches issues affecting the lives of older people and people with learning disabilities. She is also a voluntary board member of CLS/Belong Limited, a charitable organisation that provides a range of services for older people in the Macclesfield area and across East Cheshire
A councillor for Macclesfield South since 2006 Gill has worked tirelessly for people living in the ward on a wide range of issues using her considerable knowledge in areas such as social care, health needs and housing policy.
Since her election Gill has successfully campaigned against the closure of Day and Respite Services considering them an essential lifeline for those with the difficult task of caring for elderly relatives with senile dementia. Committed to improving the amount and quality of these services she says “Providing decent care for our elderly citizens is not only the mark of a civilised society it is an investment for the future as given the current demographic trends any one of us might require that support at some time in our lives”
Gill has worked with Cheshire Peaks and Plains to ensure the improvement works carried out in properties on the Moss Estate are done sensitively and to a consistently high standard. She has also campaigned for affordable housing with priority given to local people, to enable families to stay near each other when the children leave home.
