New Changes

So it happened. The threat of Tory budget drove, eventually, the Libdems into our arms to embrace sense. However like all agreements it was a difficult courtship and will not necessarily be a happy relationship. However it is a necessary one to ensure some stability for Southampton. By your god, the authority and the city need some stability.

I have become the cabinet member for Children’s Services and how the conservatives did not pay close attention to education is frightening. There is no deal with the new academies on how the new schools should be administrated and Adonis’s mistaken agenda for variety in education had been adopted.

I am scared for the provision of fair and consistent education in this city. If you compare it to an artic ice flow that due to the global warming effects of mistaken policy, is breaking up. Academies, trusts and schools interested in six forms are floating off to create multi tiered education provision that will neither be equal or effective.

If we want to raise standards you need a school community that is co-operative, supportive, has clear structure and equal access for all.