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Post by crabbyoldgit on Jan 30, 2023 20:15:16 GMT
Christ for that they could go to bryanston , blandford and even join the school polo club, maybe with their own horse.
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Post by Greenwood2 on Jan 30, 2023 20:45:29 GMT
I spotted today my local council has a line in the budget £40,000 for maintenance of christmas lights ( Now I guess that includes putting them up and taking them down and storage ) but there are 10-12 strings across the main street and 8 that project from lamp posts on my street, £40,000 a year is ridiculous And this council that was paying, wait for it, £250,000 per pupil per anum to stay at this residential special school. Obviously that wasn't the main purpose of the article - it almost got lost but didn't someone in the council think that might be a bit much? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63792458Isn't your daughter attending an expensive special school? I'm really surprised you are criticising apparently good provision in this area. Maybe these children need really intensive care in a residential, expensive environment.
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Post by michaelc on Jan 30, 2023 21:08:33 GMT
And this council that was paying, wait for it, £250,000 per pupil per anum to stay at this residential special school. Obviously that wasn't the main purpose of the article - it almost got lost but didn't someone in the council think that might be a bit much? www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-63792458Isn't your daughter attending an expensive special school? I'm really surprised you are criticising apparently good provision in this area. Maybe these children need really intensive care in a residential, expensive environment. Good job you don't work in the council I assume?  6 or 7k is what you would expect a council to pay for a normal primary school. £50K will get you an all singing, all dancing school with 121 ratios and all the treatments you can think of. From memory the large public schools such as Eton and Winchester are similar. 250K is ridiculous and should have rang alarm bells.
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Post by travolta on Jan 30, 2023 21:34:21 GMT
A tired highways operative explained to a massed meeting in my village hall that the potholes were not repaired because 89% of the annual budget was earmarked for the Youth and Elderly . Tant pis!
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Post by iRobot on Jan 30, 2023 21:43:44 GMT
Isn't your daughter attending an expensive special school? I'm really surprised you are criticising apparently good provision in this area. Maybe these children need really intensive care in a residential, expensive environment. Good job you don't work in the council I assume? 6 or 7k is what you would expect a council to pay for a normal primary school. £50K will get you an all singing, all dancing school with 121 ratios and all the treatments you can think of. From memory the large public schools such as Eton and Winchester are similar. 250K is ridiculous and should have rang alarm bells. No need to rely on memory; for Eton£15,432 per half-term = £92,592 per academic year plus extras - an EC activity lasting 60mins per week is around £4k per academic year plus registration and acceptance fees plus uniforms plus ... plus ... Cost £50k to keep an average prisoner banged up for a year. (No real reason to mention that other than I thought it an interesting comparison )
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Post by keitha on Jan 30, 2023 21:43:52 GMT
£250,000 per child per year
£5000 a week
and they were paying carers £10 per hour
even at 1 carer per child that's still only £2000 a week.
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Post by agent69 on Jan 31, 2023 9:41:09 GMT
A tired highways operative explained to a massed meeting in my village hall that the potholes were not repaired because 89% of the annual budget was earmarked for the Youth and Elderly . Tant pis! Repairing pot holes is a bit of a fire fighting exercise. In an ideal world they would cut the sides back to solid tarmac and repair them properly. However, it is far quicker and cheaper to just put a bucket of tarmac into the hole and pat it down. End result is that you'll be back in a couple of years to repair it again.
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Post by radar on Jan 31, 2023 10:25:50 GMT
How good it would be if the pot holes were filled in and lasted 2 years, the pot holes round us are (FIXED that is not the right word) about every six months and then only if they are a certain depth
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Post by keitha on Jan 31, 2023 12:13:18 GMT
yes I saw my lot fixing pot holes yesterday chucking tarmac in holes that were 1/2 full of water then driving the lorry over to flatten it
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Post by Deleted on Jan 31, 2023 12:59:05 GMT
A tired highways operative explained to a massed meeting in my village hall that the potholes were not repaired because 89% of the annual budget was earmarked for the Youth and Elderly . Tant pis! most pot holes are not repaired because they are not reported and most councils don't employ people to look for them, repairs are dirt cheap and easy to do, but if people don't tell the council then nothing happens
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Post by michaelc on Jan 31, 2023 14:21:02 GMT
Good job you don't work in the council I assume? 6 or 7k is what you would expect a council to pay for a normal primary school. £50K will get you an all singing, all dancing school with 121 ratios and all the treatments you can think of. From memory the large public schools such as Eton and Winchester are similar. 250K is ridiculous and should have rang alarm bells. No need to rely on memory; for Eton£15,432 per half-term = £92,592 per academic yearplus extras - an EC activity lasting 60mins per week is around £4k per academic year plus registration and acceptance fees plus uniforms plus ... plus ... Cost £50k to keep an average prisoner banged up for a year. (No real reason to mention that other than I thought it an interesting comparison ) Not sure why you would go to the trouble of posting up obviously wrong but checkable information? www.etoncollege.com/admissions/fees/And if you didn't understand "half" in Eton terms is a full term by all means consult numerous other resources. So we're looking at 40 odd grand as I said. Unless you work for the council and believe uniforms cost 200 grand every year....<rolls eyes>
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Post by keitha on Jan 31, 2023 16:36:12 GMT
A friend told me the other day that he daughters school had said shorts under the school uniform skirt were ok, as long as they were the under Armour brand
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Post by benaj on Jan 31, 2023 17:03:51 GMT
Wait, there's no vacancy for Children's service @ Hesxxx Group. They are specialised for children with austism, learning disability and COMPLEX needs.
Learning outcomes
According to Ofsted, annual fees for Ivy Lane (day pupils) is 80k (2021), No stats on number of graduates gained independence, but it has ofsted "good" rating. No idea where Chloe worked. Number of pupils @ Ivy Lane according to Ofsted report: 5, opened and registered in 2021
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Post by iRobot on Jan 31, 2023 17:32:25 GMT
No need to rely on memory; for Eton£15,432 per half-term = £92,592 per academic yearAnd if you didn't understand "half" in Eton terms is a full term by all means consult numerous other resources. I didn't; but now I do after you so graciously pointed it out me. Thank you.
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Post by michaelc on Jan 31, 2023 17:51:06 GMT
And if you didn't understand "half" in Eton terms is a full term by all means consult numerous other resources. I didn't; but now I do after you so graciously pointed it out me. Thank you. I hope you will forgive me for not being so gracious when someone rubbishes what I've said based on entirely false information.
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