According to A Different Bias, “The primary role of government is to present legislation to parliament in order to deliver on their manifesto promises.
“But the Education Secretary told MPs last week that an important bill was being pulled because the government didn’t have the time to manage the economy along with its other duties in government.
“It’s not like other governments, or even previous UK governments, have ever done this under the same circumstances, so is this just our government admitting that they don’t know what they’re doing?”
It’s a good question. Watch the clip and see what you think:
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Vulnerable child: the Tory Schools Bill is likely to harm youngsters who have special educational needs or who are bullied at school.
Are you a parent? If so, how do you feel about the fact that the Tory government is stealing your rights out from under your nose?
It will be nearly impossible to get those rights back if you lose them.
So, for example:
The government plans to change the law to require councils to use their powers to promote regular attendance and reduce absences. Schools will also be required to publish attendance policies and implement efforts to promote regular attendance.
The education secretary will be allowed to decide what will warrant an absence fine, which is currently set at council level. Current laws on granting absence will be extended to academies. The government wants these changes to come into effect in September 2023.
Also:
The government will legislate to create a duty on councils to keep a register of children not in school. There will also be a duty on parents to provide information to councils for the register.
Out-of-school education providers will be required to provide information to LAs on request. Councils will also have to provide support to registered home-educating families where it’s required.
And:
The government will also legislate to speed up the issuing of school attendance orders, which are issued by councils on behalf of heads to parents or carers of absent pupils. School attendance orders are a precursor to absence fines.
It is not currently against the law for parents who have been issued with an order to withdraw their child from school. This will become a crime under the proposed legislation.
The maximum penalty for breaching an attendance order will increase to a £2,500 fine or up to 3 months’ imprisonment.
You may think those measures seem reasonable. But that would be to ignore the reasons why children avoid school and parents switch to home learning.
This excerpt from a Facebook post may put the situation in its proper context:
Currently in the UK our rights include the right to make sure that our children are recieving a full time education that suits their aptitude, abilities and needs.
One of your legal rights as parents in the UK, is that if your child has SEND or bullying issues at school, you can make the choice to withdraw them to home educate them, send them to another school if you prefer, and you have other routes and choices you can go down. You can visit schools and speak to SEND specialists, all before making your choices. This is just one tiny example.
Under the new bill, if you decide to home educate, you will need to obtain consent from the school your child is registered at. You may then get local authority staff who are not trained in education or SEND, assessing your child’s learning, well-being and development. The local authority will have the power to decide, at a moment’s notice, that your child must return to school, and they may send them to an inadequate school of their choosing, where your child’s needs may not be met, and from which they will not be allowed to be withdrawn by you.
Your rights, as parents, will be removed from you and given to the government. You will no longer have any control over your child’s education.
The Schools Bill is being advertised as a bill only targeting those ‘missing education’. However, if you read the actual document, you may well feel outraged! You do need to read it thoroughly though. To not read it, would mean to blindly accept that the government knows what is best for your child and you do not.
The advice is to read the Schools Bill – you can find it here – then write to your local MP and any local members of the House of Lords, whose job is to hold the government to account, and ask them to oppose the Bill’s ckauses that strip parents of their rights and hand those powers to Tory ministers.
The Facebook post continues:
Do you have a child who is sick or poorly a lot? This bill will affect you.
Do you have a child who has mental health issues and is too anxious or depressed to attend school at times? This bill will affect you.
Have you had a bereavement in the family, and your child wants to attend the funeral or needs some time off to grieve and process things? This bill will affect you.
Do you have a child with undiagnosed or unmet special or additional educational needs? This bill will affect you.
Is your child being severely and persistently bullied or socially ostracized at school, to the extent that it’s affecting their physical health, mental health and well-being? This bill will affect you.
To put it bluntly, if you have a child, this bill will affect you.
Do you want the well-being of your child to be handed to faceless council functionaries performing tick-box exercises for Tory ministers like Education Secretary Nadhim Zahawi?
That is what the Tory government is planning – unless you help stop it.
Tories do listen to public opinion. They fear unpopularity – and will act to curb legislation that may lead them to lose their Parliamentary seats; seats which are already in jeopardy because of the loss of Boris Johnson’s credibility.
So, if you’re a parent, it’s up to you. Will you let Nadhim Zahawi walk all over you – and trample any vulnerable child into the asphalt of the playground?
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Wearing the dunce’s cap yet again: but should Gavin Williamson get all the blame for wanting to inflict Latin on our unsuspecting sprogs? I suspect this is another daft demand from Boris Johnson and Williamson, being a dimwitted yes-man, is just pushing it through.
It is as though Gavin Williamson actually sat in the Department for Education, thinking: “I can’t screw up exams this year; how else can I bugger up state school kids?”
Here’s what he came up with:
Latin lessons are to be offered to thousands of state school pupils in England as part of an effort by the Department for Education to make the language less “elitist”.
Education Secretary Gavin Williamson said a new programme would ensure the subject was not “for the privileged few”.
A £4 million Latin Excellence Programme will see the ancient language offered to 40 state schools in England as part of a four-year pilot, according to The Daily Telegraph.
It makes a perverse kind of sense: having killed the economy with Brexit and enormous numbers of the population with Covid-19, the Tories now want us all to learn a dead language.
It’s not as if there aren’t plenty of other things to which Williamson could be devoting his time – as the Twitter community was quick to point out:
Employers “There are not enough young people with strong Computer Science degrees, especially cyber security”
I read that Gavin Williamson wants to introduce Latin, when I'd have thought that teaching pupils about equality, fairness and budgeting would be a better use of teachers time.
— 🔶Jonathan Banks🔶 💙Parliamentary spokes RNP (@Jonathan_MBanks) July 31, 2021
If my kids want to learn latin, I'll give them an Asterix book. It is a dead language Gavin Williamson, you stupid boy, the only reason it's elitist is because the elite can afford to waste time learning it. Deal with the Covid crisis in schools, now is the perfect time to do so. pic.twitter.com/jyg5zSOCuQ
So Gavin Williamson wants Latin to be taught in state schools. Improving mental health services for young people would be a better option but I don’t think he’s considered that.
Congratulations to Gavin Williamson for the foresight of seeing that German, French, Spanish et al will become redundant now we're out of the EU and planning for our closer ties with Latinarnia 👏👏👏
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“Perfectly safe”: this photo was taken on a school staircase after Boris Johnson ruled that it was “perfectly safe” for children to go back there in September – no social distancing, no PPE… not safe at all.
Is everybody happy to be back in lockdown – or at least, in more serious Covid-19 related restrictions – thanks to Tory incompetence, yet again?
And are you all happy that the new restrictions announced by Boris Johnson and his government won’t make a scrap of difference because he refuses, point-blank, to stop the most common cause of Covid-19 infections?
What I mean is when the latest restrictions are relaxed, we’ll all be as vulnerable to Covid infection as before, because Johnson won’t close the schools.
Schools account for almost 40% of all new infections.
That's some ridiculous propaganda you're spreading there.
It is obvious – and has been since long before Johnson announced that schools would be reopened for the autumn term in September – that schools should stay closed for the duration. And we all know that Johnson triggered the huge autumn rise in infections because of this simple omission from his plans.
Not opening schools until full testing was available was one.
We’ve been living with a false economy for this entire thing with both parties chasing front pages rather than long term success.
Aaron Bastani’s comment that both main political parties must take responsibility, because they both chased headlines and tried to court public approval rather than doing the right thing, is correct:
Rebecca Long-Bailey should hold a press conference in which she says "I told you so" to Keir Starmer, after he ignored her warnings about re-opening schools before it was safe to do so. Then sacked her. https://t.co/xu4mYlIf4M
— Frank Owen's Legendary Paintbrush (@WarmongerHodges) December 20, 2020
But ultimate responsibility lies with the government of the day:
Boris Johnson should resign, absolute waste of space. Please can we stop electing entitled, silver spoon posh boys who think they can fuck everything up and get away with it?
Trouble is, Johnson’s resignation won’t change anything because his Tory government will go on – and will continue risking the lives of thousands of people – with their dishonest policies.
All I wish for Christmas is that Boris Johnson's government would stop being incompetent and corrupt – and lying to me – for a just a few days pic.twitter.com/w1qlCEc0ga
After more than a year of Covid-19 lies, the Tories can’t go back to the facts because then they would have to provide recompense for all the suffering and death that they deliberately caused.
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Rampant: the Covid-19 virus is once again on the loose across the UK because the Tories haven’t just lost control; they’ve deliberately thrown it away.
It’s safe to say that Boris Johnson’s anti-Covid strategy has collapsed.
If we see any reports of success in reversing the rise of the disease, it will be despite his government’s restrictions, not because of them.
Here’s The Independent:
There were 3,330 confirmed new cases of coronavirus, according to government data published on Sunday, compared with 3,497 a day earlier.
The overall tally has now risen to 368,504 infections.
A further five new deaths were also reported, bringing the national total to 41,628 – the highest in Europe.
Separate figures published by the UK’s statistics agencies show there have been 57,400 deaths registered in the country where Covid-19 was mentioned on the death certificate.
For the situation in schools, let’s go to the Tory Fibs Twitter account. At 10.51am on Sunday, it stated:
706 UK Schools now with Coronavirus infections among the school population
• 111 Scotland • 68 Northern Ireland • 39 Wales • 488 England
Source: Compilation of local newspaper reports, NHS reports, and school websites.
Outbreaks in schools mean pupils have to go home, meaning parents cannot go to work but have to stay back to look after them.
The fact that the situation may change at any minute means that, in ending the full lockdown, Johnson has created more uncertainty in both the economy and education than before, and has increased the risk of infection all round.
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A face mask: your youngsters will probably look better in theirs than this image – kids can be very creative – so why not let them stay safe by letting them wear their masks all the time they’re at school?
Is everybody totally confused now, about Covid-19 rules when the schools open again in September?
I am.
Apparently Boris Johnson has u-turned on a previous decision and decided that, in England,
staff and pupils in secondary schools in local lockdown areas like Manchester and Birmingham will be required to wear face coverings when moving around the building and in communal areas where social distancing is difficult to maintain. Masks will not be mandated in the classroom.
Elsewhere,
masks will not be obligatory but school leaders will have the discretion to require face coverings in communal areas if they believe that is “right in their particular circumstances”.
So he’ll be able to blame head teachers if outbreaks occur.
There is only one sane choice for head teachers who are given it: Masks everywhere.
I wrote back in March, “Children are brilliant at spreading disease. I remember a trip to Lyme Regis, back when I was at junior school; one girl on the coach had chicken pox and was found to have it very soon – but by the end of the week we all had it and one of the teachers spent the following term extremely ill with it.”
If that happens with Covid-19, it could be fatal.
I am supported in my believe by this:
Happy UK has dropped advice *against* face masks in schools. But face facts: schools are the recipe for aerosol transmission: crowded, indoor spaces with lots of talking for hours. Masking is essential. @Dr2NisreenAlwan@melindacmills@CMO_Englandhttps://t.co/XJ8ceNNJFP
That’s an Oxford professor, expert in infections, by the way.
Finally, there’s the fact that adults are far more likely to suffer the worst effects of Covid-19 than children – and for single parents that could be disastrous:
Children going back to school is terrifying to people like Jennifer & her son, not just of catching the virus, but coping as a result as well. Government should support, not punish parents.
The plan at the moment is to punish parents who believe the best protection for their children is to keep them away from school.
It doesn’t matter whether Johnson is deliberately trying to cause trouble to them or simply doesn’t have the intelligence to realise that people will be hurt because he hasn’t provided for them.
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Still apt: Keir Starmer reckons he was named after original Labour leader Hardie – but can anyone doubt that his illustrious forerunner might have said these words, if confronted with evidence of Starmer’s abysmal performance? [I’m astonished to discover, after using the image on another article, that I need to clarify that he didn’t.]
Don’t get me wrong; it’s great that Labour Party members are challenging Keir Starmer over something.
And his failure to voice a coherent party policy on the people coming across the channel in dinghies – because they aren’t legally allowed to demand asylum in the UK without physically being here – is indeed shameful.
It seems the sticking-point for party members is that Starmer has criticised the government for incompetence in failing to carry out its own policy to deflect refugees away from the UK, because it is not Labour’s job to support the Tories in their cruelties.
And the protesters are right to point out that international law is clear: the migrants’ right to come to the UK for asylum is protected.
But there are so many other issues on which Starmer has disgraced himself – and brought Labour into disrepute.
Where is the party’s condemnation of Israeli’s bombing attack on Gaza, that has been ongoing for, I believe, 11 days by now?
Related to that, where is his apology to all the party members Labour has been persecuting with false allegations of anti-Semitism? This is linked to the party’s attitude to Israel because Labour under Starmer seems to think that opposition to that nation’s policies is the same as hatred of Jews – a clear fallacy.
Still on an ethnic theme, isn’t the Labour leader due a kicking over his frankly racist attitude to the Black Lives Matter campaign?
Or, going back to support for the Tories, why is he getting a free pass over his demand that schools must open again in September – in line with Boris Johnson’s own comments – when it is still not clear whether this is putting our children, and ourselves, in danger?
In fact it seems all-too-easy to challenge Keir Starmer over failings in his leadership.
Has he done anything that party members can wholeheartedly support?
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Apparently chief medical officer Chris Whitty is saying, at the same time, that children returning to school will increase the likelihood of people catching Covid-19… and that it won’t.
It depends which news source you use and whether you think the UK’s chief medical officer is likely to contradict himself in such a way.
What do you believe?
And, if you’re a parent…
What do you do?
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Closed: the indecent haste with which Boris Johnson has been rushing England out of lockdown has already created Covid-19 infection spikes in several cities, and in schools across that country.
The UK faces a second wave of Covid-19 in as little as a few weeks, according to a professor of global public health.
Devi Sridhar, who acts as the public health adviser for Scotland’s first minister Nicola Sturgeon, warned of “constant outbreaks” as lockdown restrictions ease across the country.
She tweeted: “I know that everyone wants the economy to go full steam ahead in the UK. But I fear we will be in another lockdown within months, if not weeks…
“Eliminate the virus over the summer then open up safely. Otherwise enter winter and flu season in a dangerous halfway house.”
Here’s the proof of her words:
“Three new coronavirus hotspots named in list of top 10 worst-hit areas” trumpeted the Mirror on July 9:
The information from Public Health England shows that the number of infections is on the rise in Blackburn, Bedford and Peterborough.
Leicester continues to have the highest number of Covid-19 infections in the UK, and Health Secretary Matt Hancock was forced to admit that this has been largely fuelled by outbreaks in schools.
So it should come as no surprise to learn that Covid-19 in schools is at its highest level in six weeks – since they were reopened at the beginning of June:
The graph, by the way, shows the number of schools affected. The number of infections is likely to be significantly higher.
So there it is.
Perhaps you don’t think there’s any reason to worry. After all, both the Tory government and the Labour opposition are keen to tell you that it’s all under control and there is no cause for worry.
As the Covid-19 unnecessary death toll in the UK inches closer to 70,000, just have a think about whether you believe that before you head off to the pub.
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Oliver Dowden: do you believe this face when it tells you it’s safe to go back in a swimming pool with loads of other people who’ve never had a Covid-19 test in their life?
Imagine a plane crash killed 157 people. It would be top of the day’s news. A terrorist incident killing 126 would also be the top headline.
Yes
Imagine 157 deaths in a plane crash yesterday 126 deaths in a terrorist attack today
The media would notice
This country is in a terrible mess; the uselessness of the mainstream media is a significant reason why https://t.co/XJC24yYys3
— Stefan Simanowitz (@StefSimanowitz) July 8, 2020
And now, to top it all off, culture secretary Oliver Dowden has announced the latest plan to increase the death toll: reopening gyms and swimming pools!
It seems they want us all to die.
Dowden said outdoor theatres could reopen immediately, along with recreational sports. Indoor pools, gyms and sports facilities will follow.
Here are the details:
Outdoor pools will be able to re-open on 11 July
Indoor gyms, swimming pools and sports facilities will then be able to re-open from 25 July
Grassroots sport will be able to return from this coming weekend, beginning with cricket (other sports will follow)
Outdoor theatres will be able to start up from Saturday
Small pilots of indoor performances with socially distanced audiences will also take place to help work out the best way to get them up and running
From Monday 13 July, beauticians, tattooists, spas, tanning salons and other close contact services can reopen “subject to some restrictions on particularly high-risk services”
Okay, so how will we be able to avoid catching Covid from other users of these sporting facilities? Dowden said there will be “enhanced cleaning” at gyms and pools.
How the hell is that going to work?
In a place like a swimming pool, where people immerse their entire bodies – including the faces that we’ve all been told not to touch since March – what are they going to do?
And nobody will be asked to wear a face mask in a gym.
So that’s fine. If anybody asymptomatic takes Covid-19 into a gym or pool with them, everybody there is certain to catch it.
Dowden held a press conference, touching on other matters. For example:
He said he was “absolutely confident” Boris Johnson and Gavin Williamson would not have ordered parents to send children back to school unless it was safe to do so. Oh, really?
England suffered a wave of school closures after Johnson and Williamson ordered them to open too soon and outbreaks of Covid happened.
If Dowden was “absolutely confident” Johnson and Williamson’s plan was safe, this does not bode well for his reliability on gyms and swimming pools.
And in response to a question on sanctions for people who flout the rules, he said he was “tremendously heartened” by the “good British common sense” the British public had displayed.
Does he mean the common sense displayed by the public in Soho when the pubs opened on Saturday? Let’s look at a picture of them all keeping two metres away from each other:
Or we could consider what happened at Bournemouth when the sun came out?
Well.
Apparently the police have the power to disperse crowds. Clearly they didn’t exercise it on Saturday.
Perhaps they were too busy stopping and searching 12.5 per cent of London’s black population for no good reason instead…
Dowden also – implausibly – claimed that the government continues to be “informed by science” on the pace at which it is reopening the economy – but we can see that this isn’t true.
Asked about the data the government has seen since pubs and hairdressers re-opened last weekend, he said it was “all continuing to move in the right direction”.
But we won’t know whether those reopenings have led to an increase in Covid infections for another week and a half.
It all adds up to nothing less than sheer foolhardiness from a government that knows it is the people who will suffer for Tory mistakes.
You’d think Boris Johnson would have got the message after a hospital in his own constituency had to close its Accident & Emergency unit, with no fewer than 70 people going into self-isolation.
But no.
He wouldn’t get the message if it was written in fiery letters across the sky and followed him wherever he went.
He’d probably just try to convince us that God was wrong for arguing with him – and then deny it when religious leaders got angry.
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