Karam Bales Profile picture
Counter Disinformation Project, Former NEU and ATL executive, Freelance journalist & researcher @bylinetimes @whowhatwhy, Public speaker, Education-Head of Year

Aug 3, 2021, 9 tweets

Imagine if the UK media spent as much time on pressing for ventilated workplaces as they did foreign holidays...

#r4today

Government scraps £300m initiative on mental health in primary school

Where are all those ppl who said they cared about student mental health a couple of months ago when they were arguing against mitigations in schools?
schoolsweek.co.uk/mental-health-…

As for the Students have lost X days in schools = y loss of lifetime earnings

Availability of opportunity will have a greater impact, here we have options available being removed

Where are those voices now?

And we just had the national disability strategy announced which fails to address the damage the government has done to peoples lives for years now

"Education is a number one priority"

They say as they stealth cut the Pupil Premium for the most disadvantaged by hundreds of millions

And where are all those ppl who claimed they cares about disadvantaged children now?

Whats the gov doing for 4 and 5 year old when they first enter education

Continuing with the roll out of baseline testing for starters, this data point will then be used to measure progress throughout their compulsory education

Charities accuse Government of failing to properly consult as it seeks to rush through children's social care review

Where are the voices?

Incase you are wondering what direction children's social care is heading

Privatisation, and its gaining the interest of the worst kind of investor

But the ppl claiming to care about children aren't going to be drawing attention to this

£20million siphoned out of school budgets and into a MATs central HQ

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