Well - that's a turn-up for the books.
Our new education secretary is going to tackle the causes of absenteeism - well whoopy-doo! These causes relate to families who are disadvantaged, whose own education might have been lacking, who are on low incomes, whose lives might be chaotic, families where there is domestic abuse and unemployment etc. etc.
Tackling these problems had already been started via the Sure Start scheme and through LA family centres. Guess what? - this government abandoned the Sure Start scheme and underfunded LAs to the point where family centres and youth services have had to close. And now we are reaping the harvest of these appallingly short-sighted decisions.
I hope he has got his magic wand polished up, because he is about to find out that any useful preventative schemes work slowly and need to build up in order to have any impact.
No doubt he will be wanting quick results to wave in front of the electorate. I strongly suspect that the stick will come into use any minute now. This crazy government really believes that fines for the parents of non-attenders achieves the desired result - no, it just makes the poor even poorer, and resentful of authority.
How did we finish up with this bunch in charge?
They cut the sibling support group here as soon as these gits got in power. 10 years of no sibling/young carer support. They are evilTo think that London, or anywhere else for that matter, does not belong to any one demographic
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Another week, another Tory MP sex scandal!
Nicola Sturgeon’s husband Peter Murrell re-arrested over SNP finances.
