Reading the article, the funding will revert to central Government in 2028. Unfortunately, the SEN debate has become poisoned by those who assert a lot of the referrals are unnecessary and parents ar… (View Post)

Apologies if this was mentioned yesterday but a story with implications for local council elections perhaps: https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cjd95572xpeo (View Post)

As to Wes Streeting's survival, it will be interesting to see how Redbridge votes in the Council elections in May. There is a group known as the Ilford Independents who won a by election last ye… (View Post)

This time a decade ago, David Cameron was Prime Minister - since then we've had May, Johnson, Truss, Sunak and now Starmer. That's a decent turnover. As I recall, they all got huge choruses… (View Post)

There's debt and there's the deficit. The former informs the latter inasmuch as the interest paid on the debt takes a chunk out of what we have to spend on other things each year. We are bo… (View Post)