Water
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Dear Jessica Lee,
I am very concerned that the cuts that are being implemented are
leading to the weak ones and the vulnerable becoming just more
disadvantaged.
For example my wife works in a Derbyshire Primary School. Something
like 90% of their school budget is the wage bill for Teachers, support
staff and teaching Assistants (TAs). The Teaching assistants are
deployed to support the least able. So the school budget is being cut
by 40K. The Head has no option but to cut the wage bill and that has
resulted in a reduction in TA hours. In my wife's class that means her
least able children get less support. These are the children who over
their life time are going to become service users of many public
services at great expense over their lifetime. The chances of this
outcome have just become more certain due to the short sited nature of
the cuts being meted out by this Government.
Personally I approve of the concept of early interventions - having
TA's is a form of early intervention. Accessing appropriate specialist
support like ed psyche's and the like can change the life outcomes for
vulnerable children. However funding needs to be increased in early
intervention to break the negative life cycle that some children would
otherwise face. What is you position on early intervention programmes
promoted by Graham Allen MP and Ian Duncan Smith MP? What are you doing
to make sure that investment is being made in this area of public
service?
Can you tell me what the budget is for our action against Gaddafi's
Libyan regime. I read that on the first day of action we used 22
Tomahawk Cruise Missiles - each one costs £300,000 - so day one cost
£7million plus in missiles alone. That £7 mill could have been put to
better use in funding education in the UK. The only saving grace is
that at least the UN have sanctioned this action unlike Blair's war
crimes against Iraq. Time he was put away - he apologised too late and
too little. There was no game plan beyond toppling Saddam Hussain. The
day before's Blair proposed war in Iraq I wrote to my then MP Liz
Blackman asking her to vote against a war - however my actions changed
nothing. LB voted in favour of war.
Could you please advise me whether the Government you are part of has a
clear understanding of the outcome that you are trying to achieve in
Libya. We should not make the same mistake that was made in Iraq? Do we
have an exit strategy? Will our action enable the people to have a
democratically elected Government?
That's enough for now. I would appreciate hearing your answers.
Yours sincerely,
Paul B
Voter Long Eaton
01e4e79c4066a3670659/5b441032d4b7fb88c121
(Signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3)
of the Electronic Communications Act 2000.)
Water
Tuesday 22 March 2011
Dear Jessica Lee,
I am very concerned that the cuts that are being implemented are
leading to the weak ones and the vulnerable becoming just more
disadvantaged.
For example my wife works in a Derbyshire Primary School. Something
like 90% of their school budget is the wage bill for Teachers, support
staff and teaching Assistants (TAs). The Teaching assistants are
deployed to support the least able. So the school budget is being cut
by 40K. The Head has no option but to cut the wage bill and that has
resulted in a reduction in TA hours. In my wife's class that means her
least able children get less support. These are the children who over
their life time are going to become service users of many public
services at great expense over their lifetime. The chances of this
outcome have just become more certain due to the short sited nature of
the cuts being meted out by this Government.
Personally I approve of the concept of early interventions - having
TA's is a form of early intervention. Accessing appropriate specialist
support like ed psyche's and the like can change the life outcomes for
vulnerable children. However funding needs to be increased in early
intervention to break the negative life cycle that some children would
otherwise face. What is you position on early intervention programmes
promoted by Graham Allen MP and Ian Duncan Smith MP? What are you doing
to make sure that investment is being made in this area of public
service?
Can you tell me what the budget is for our action against Gaddafi's
Libyan regime. I read that on the first day of action we used 22
Tomahawk Cruise Missiles - each one costs £300,000 - so day one cost
£7million plus in missiles alone. That £7 mill could have been put to
better use in funding education in the UK. The only saving grace is
that at least the UN have sanctioned this action unlike Blair's war
crimes against Iraq. Time he was put away - he apologised too late and
too little. There was no game plan beyond toppling Saddam Hussain. The
day before's Blair proposed war in Iraq I wrote to my then MP Liz
Blackman asking her to vote against a war - however my actions changed
nothing. LB voted in favour of war.
Could you please advise me whether the Government you are part of has a
clear understanding of the outcome that you are trying to achieve in
Libya. We should not make the same mistake that was made in Iraq? Do we
have an exit strategy? Will our action enable the people to have a
democratically elected Government?
That's enough for now. I would appreciate hearing your answers.
Yours sincerely,
Paul B
Voter Long Eaton
01e4e79c4066a3670659/5b441032d4b7fb88c121
(Signed with an electronic signature in accordance with subsection 7(3)
of the Electronic Communications Act 2000.)