I thought the coalition was meant to be saving money?

kabayiri

drc wrote: »

It's like the saying "give a man a fish and you will feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish and you will feed him for a lifetime".

Or....
"Build a man a fire and you keep him warm for the evening. Set a man on fire and you keep him warm for the rest of his life".

Which is sort of how I see government spending really. Perhaps they had good intention when they first set out to spend our children's inheritances (as Theo would put it), but somehow they manage to scr*w it up in a myriad of ways.

robin_banks

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

vivatifosi

Maybe that is why you have no social skills now

FYI My kids are grown up now but if they were young now I would not send them to school full stop. They are bloody awful places, full of bullies and the teachers are useless that's why so many kids are on the scrap heap today

I've told you a million times, do not exaggerate.

Sir_Humphrey

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

I would have thought that the money for this will simply be taken from another part of the education budget.

Spin spin spin...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11615216

I told you so.

Generali

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11615216

I told you so.

I'd be more worried by these 2 items in the BBC's top 10 at present:

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-wiltshire-11595485

An agency nurse working for the NHS was filmed switching off her patient's life support machine by mistake.
Tetraplegic Jamie Merrett, 37, had a bedside camera set up at his home in Wiltshire, after becoming concerned about the care he was receiving.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/england/manchester/8630592.stm

A patient lost a testicle during an operation because the surgeon cut it off by mistake, a General Medical Council (GMC) hearing has been told.
Dr Sulieman Al Hourani was only supposed to cut out a cyst, but removed the whole right testicle instead.
Dr Al Hourani was a locum surgeon at Fairfield General Hospital in Bury, Greater Manchester, at the time of the surgery in September 2007.
He is accused of misconduct and also of stealing medication.

Sir_Humphrey

The nurse was empoyed and vetted by a private sector bursing agency. I am not clear what point you are trying to make here.

If you are trying to knock the NHS, I will fill up the thread with private sector horror stories involving cosmetic surgery.

Wheezy_2

Sir_Humphrey wrote: »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-11615216

I told you so.

Ouch.

http://www.libdemvoice.org/teather-pupil-premium-is-a-real-liberal-democrat-achievement-20486.html

wrote:

I never dared imagine a time when I would be unveiling it as Government policy and then actually implementing it. But this week, the Coalition Government announced that a Pupil Premium, funded from outside the schools budget, will be introduced next September.

This is a real Liberal Democrat achievement. It was the centrepiece of our education policy during the election campaign, and it is now being implemented in Government. While the Conservatives had a similar policy, it was the Liberal Democrats who pushed for it to be funded from outside the schools budget, and for it to feature specifically in the coalition agreement.