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• The damage done to children goes beyond Ofsted’s effect on schools | Letters

  18-12-2023 19:01
  Alasdair Macdonald on education policies that Labour could introduce at virtually no cost, and Alison Walton and Nick Frost on the Ofsted regime’s harmful impact on children’s social servicesPolly Toynbee rightly highlights not only the impact of Ofsted’s “reign of fear” but also the many other negative legacies of Michael Gove and Nick Gibb (The Ruth Perry tragedy must mark the end of Ofsted’s reign of fear, 12 December). Teacher recruitment and retention hav
  
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• ‘If we fail, the NHS will fail’: Tories’ drive to cut migration leaves social care on a cliff-edge

  18-12-2023 09:00
  At one care home in Scarborough workers cried when they heard the new visa rules. The sector relies on overseas staff but many now say they plan to leave for the US or CanadaIt’s just after 7am on a drizzly, dark December morning and staff at Saint Cecilia’s nursing home in Scarborough are handing over from the night to the day shift. Some residents have been “a bit wandersome” in the night and had to be cajoled back to bed. One has been “quite vocal”, while a
  
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• Ministers hope £64bn package will stave off more local council bankruptcies

  18-12-2023 00:50
  Michael Gove to announce extra support for social care and housing as one in five English councils foresees going bustMinisters will announce a 6.5% increase in the funding for local councils in England in a desperate attempt to stop them going bankrupt.Michael Gove, the communities secretary, will announce the £64bn support package on Monday, less than a fortnight after he was warned that an unprecedented number of councils are likely to declare themselves bankrupt. Continue reading...
  
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