Memorandum from Mike Cawson
1. When will SCE Secondary Schools receive
the (on average) £98,000 extra per school given to each English
Secondary School, by Gordon Brown, in April? It is now half-way
through May and we have still not received this funding. As a
consequence, we are one English teacher and one MFL teacher underfunded
for this September.
2. It is also important that SCE Secondary
Schools receive the further considerable extra funding Gordon
Brown has earmarked for schools in financial years 2007-08 and
2008-09. Without this extra money we cannot effectively deliver
the new 14-19 initiatives emanating from the DfES.
3. The November 2002 OfSTED Report on St
John's School commented on the poor state of the children's toilets
at the School. Why has no funding for this important work been
found? It is well over three years since HQ SCE were made aware
of this problem. It is our understanding that the current government
has pledged to improve the state of school toilets.
4. Why are Service children, whose parents
pay the same taxes as the military personnel who are educated
in mainland Britain, being so disadvantaged? We have received
little of the extra-funding made available to secondary schools
over the last five years in the UK. We are being told by HQ SCE
that we have to wait for this extra funding. We are already five
years behind curve? Why is Parliament allowing this state of affairs
to continue? Why does Parliament not allow SCE schools to receive
Gordon Brown's funding directly as happens in England? It's not
good enough to say that we might receive some extra funding in
a year of two's time, we desperately need this funding now to
implement the DfES Personalising Learning Agenda and their 14-19
Implementation Plan. We trust you will give this your urgent attention
and rectify this underfunding predicament by September 2006.
22 May 2006
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