[Malcolm Armsteen]

Yep. Free schools are of much greater interest to them. If they're worried that the local school might not appreciate the unique genius of their kids.

Hence their enthusiasm for the thick-as-shit goblin Gove, apart from the fact that he was a journalist, so omerta and all that. Free schools offered them private education paid for by somebody else. Cheers!

[Tubby Isaacs]

Children with special needs in England will keep current support, minister says
Georgia Gould reassures parents that no child will be asked to leave school or have levels of assistance removed

This is either a very rash promise or a commitment to quite a lot of extra spending, given all the barriers put up by the current system. But whatever, it's never going to satisfy the demands made of it.

I wish Georgia Gould and Bridget Philiphson well with this. Another shit sandwich left by the Tories so they could sit back and watch Labour get torn to shreds by the left. "The real issue is a wealth tax and dividends paid by water companies", they said, for the hundredth week running.

[Malcolm Armsteen]

This where we need the input of Fozzy, previously. of this parish.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I miss Fozzy.

Here's what's happening.


https://schoolsweek.co.uk/government-to ... -deficits/

Government to write off 90% of councils’ SEND deficits

Local authorities will get a grant to cover all but 10% of historic deficits accrued by the end of 2025-26

They must have been working on this for a while, because £5bn is a not inconsiderable amount of money to find. No wonder the Government were pissed off with the focus on Starmer's position. This is a bit more than announcing breakfast clubs for the 97th time, or reheated Milibandism, or whatever those clever "wonk" media types call it. Also an extra £440m for the poorest areas. (Final formula due this week).

The Tory media used to be lukewarm towards Cameron a lot of the time, but when he said "Green crap" or whatever, they'd at least rouse their readers a bit with how the government was "starting to sound a bit Conservative at long last". Perhaps the liberal media might take a leaf out of that book but probably won't.

[kreuzberger]

The media - a list of the culpable is available - are going absolutely rogue; a toxic brew of anyone-but-Labour and clicks-before-country which is actually being able to drive so much speculative hysteria that the bond markets are getting jittery.

Gilts traders are taking notice of Chris Combover. What a time to be alive.

[Tubby Isaacs]

The Guardian have not reported the £5bn for special needs anywhere. Not even on the Education stories. There's just something on Georgia Gould saying that children who have provision won't lose it, about 5th on the list. Top story is some publicity seekers talking about how Economics in 2008 was just teaching "rigid equations". Which will be news to a few people who were teaching Economics in 2008, one imagines.

They have though got the word on the street in Makerfield, with the title "Starmer doesn't do anything but make U turns". Where might they have got that impression from?

[Andy McDandy]

Local authorities will get a grant to cover all but 10% of historic deficits accrued by the end of 2025-26

They must have been working on this for a while, because £5bn is a not inconsiderable amount of money to find. No wonder the Government were pissed off with the focus on Starmer's position. This is a bit more than announcing breakfast clubs for the 97th time, or reheated Milibandism, or whatever those clever "wonk" media types call it. Also an extra £440m for the poorest areas. (Final formula due this week).

The Tory media used to be lukewarm towards Cameron a lot of the time, but when he said "Green crap" or whatever, they'd at least rouse their readers a bit with how the government was "starting to sound a bit Conservative at long last". Perhaps the liberal media might take a leaf out of that book but probably won't.
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It's such a fine line between "Levelling up our overlooked towns and regions" and "Splashing cash on Benefits Street slums".

[Tubby Isaacs]

Splashing cash on kids "who are just badly behaved", no less.

FWIW I've written to the Education Correspondent. I was pretty kind. I think I've seen loads of stories about parents fearful of losing special needs education. So even if they were just going to report Georgia Gould's comments (that nobody should lose it), that ought to be an important story in itself, no? Instead it's in 5th place in Education, below a teachers' strike in San Francisco.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Well, I got an a very nice and quick reply. They did report it, at the bottom of another story about Reform putting up the council tax in Worcestershire. So that was something, and there was a lot happening yesterday. Fair point, I suppose, but I think my point holds.

[The Weeping Angel]

Even the BBC have covered it.