Comments on: Local Action

By: Firebird

Firebird — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 16:33:14 +0000

We suspect that the EHE team told the committee chairman that they consulted and if challenged will point to the questionnaire they sent out (also linked off that page), because, well what else are they going to do, tell the truth?!

The timing is mainly my fault having been doorstepped last year I complained and was told that they were following the official policy, which nobody had seen. Another member of the local group immediately fired off a FoI request. Nobody was impressed with what we saw so rather than wasting our time with the EHE team again we decided to start the ball rolling with the appropriate council committee. I presented a petition and now here we are with it on the agenda for next month.

The draft policy was written just after the Badman Report was published when no doubt there were high hopes in LA Land that they would be given all sorts of new powers. It remained in draft form awaiting those powers and probably still would be if we hadn’t found out about it.

By: Fiona Nicholson, Education Otherwise

Fiona Nicholson, Education Otherwise — Sun, 21 Mar 2010 07:19:53 +0000

It seems from this link http://www.swsurrey-home-ed.co.uk/scc.php that the council says draft was previously drawn up with home educators but you’re saying nobody saw it? It’s a strange time for them to be reviewing anything in a way, because why would they not just wait to see the outcome of the wash-up and the fate of the Children Schools and Families Bill to see whether they were legally required to plan for changes from April 2011?

By: bubble

bubble — Fri, 19 Mar 2010 18:21:56 +0000

ttp://www.bbc.co.uk/worldservice/news/2009/03/000000_europe_today.shtml

The above link should take people to the right place to hear Graham Badman and others.

hat fool badman is on this link

By: Firebird

Firebird — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 13:31:34 +0000

In general maybe, but I’m not at all sure that they will on this occasion. They’re looking at some serious budget cuts so passing a policy that will cost more than it has to is not something they’ll be keen on. The county desperately needs to spend MORE on social workers before they find themselves splashed on the front page of the tabloids.

They are Tory/Lib Dem so not ideologically tied to Ed Balls AND to put the icing on the cake, Michael Gove is a Surrey MP. I think we have reason to hope that they will be sensible.

If they’re not, and they rubber stamp this abomination we will set about making them very, very sorry.

By: bubble

bubble — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 11:51:22 +0000

s= that on April 14th councillors accept that the draft EHE policy is NOT ‘fit for purpose’ and tell their staff to start again from the beginning and actually CONSULT this time.

they always rubber stamp what ever is put forward to them! most of those councilors will just agree with it!