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Originally Posted by g jones
I appreciate that John.
There's clearly two sides to this argument. A local small advocate, the district council offers accountability that would be at risk with a larger authority.
The counter view, my view is that already happens with county providing 72% of the services. Strategic clout offers more benefits than the the comfort of a district council. Then there's duplication of well paid staff and division of responsibility between upper and lower local government.
I appreciate that Guinness has made some articulate points and that's the way it should be if we are to make Hyndburn a better place. Progressive debate.
What I'd want to say in response to the list is its about the big issues. 12 months ago I was told by LCC CEO that the pupil premium in Hyndburn was lower than it should be. That HBC had personal data that could identify 00's of pupils entitled to free school meals triggering a pupil premium to that school. I got HBC with the leaders help to write twice to every family that looked like they may be entitled. I had no interest in broadcasting this effort until the papers wanted to print a story that Hyndburn schools this year were to receive huge increases in funding via the pupil premium. That's what I mean about commitment, about important issues, about having an MP who is continually striving for this area.
This like quite a few issues is under most people's radar but we've made a different to tight school budgets.
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I'm always up for a reasoned debate..
Are you saying that the list of Hyndburn electorate concerns that I mentioned are small issues?
Regarding the pupil premium which appears to be a new name for free school dinners, well done you, but not really your job to sort this out is it? At least not according to item 14 on the FAQ below.
http://media.education.gov.uk/assets...ium%20faqs.pdf
Is it really the role of the LCC CEO to tell the MP, who then tells the BC, who then write to parents, not once but twice before funding is released to schools? Because I can’t find that anywhere in the FAQ
Unless I'm reading it wrong the following document tasks the schools to do this job not MP's or CEO's
http://media.education.gov.uk/assets...%20and%20a.pdf
Have any heads rolled (pun intended) for this oversight?
On a pedantic side note why contact people twice? Isn't that a waste of hard pressed council resources?