I was very interested to receive today a letter from my daughter’s head teacher about the Pupil Premium – the Liberal Democrat initiative to target specific extra money at schools according to the number of pupils they have from less well off families. This has already resulted in an extra £800,000 for St Albans schools [...]
Entries Tagged as 'pupil premium'
Encouraging those entitled to free school meals to register so as to maximise their school’s pupil premium
December 14th, 2011 · 1 Comment · Sandy's blog
1,600 local residents stop being liable to income tax – 63,000 to pay less
April 1st, 2011 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
Today is the start of the new tax year when tax codes change. The top priority of the Liberal Democrat manifesto of 2010 was to reduce the burden of tax on those on low incomes. We regarded it as absurd that even the minimum wage was subject to tax under Labour policies, and we argued [...]
What hope if you can’t even write your name?
January 29th, 2010 · No Comments · Sandy's blog
I was profoundly depressed to see that the Government’s own figures show that almost a third of boys from disadvantaged backgrounds cannot write their own name after a year at primary school. The increasing lack of social mobility in the UK is very concerning. These figures show that the gap between poorer children and the [...]