Brighton council cuts will force extra work onto school staff (From The Argus)
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Brighton council cuts will force extra work onto school staff
3:40pm Sunday 8th August 2010 in News By Tim Ridgway
Schools will be expected to take on the work of dozens of youth service staff to be axed as part of council cuts.
As David Cameron visited Hove on Thursday, 19 staff from youth advice service Connexions were handed redundancy notices by Brighton and Hove City Council.
Union representatives have now claimed a further 20 jobs will go if the council ends its contract with Prospects, a private company which provides youth services for the local authority.
Instead schools will be expected to step in to provide advice to teenagers on issues such as sexual health, careers, housing and healthy living when the services end in the autumn.
Unions said they will challenge the decision to scrap the posts on legal grounds, such as the Human Rights Act.
Comments(16)
pperrin
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4:56pm Sun 8 Aug 10
These things are the responsiblity of the parents.
Our money has been wasted for years, paying people to undermine parents.
Don't move the waste - just cut it.
PeteBrighton
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5:17pm Sun 8 Aug 10
Ringmer Rich
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5:54pm Sun 8 Aug 10
acoustic
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6:03pm Sun 8 Aug 10
Surely not!
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6:11pm Sun 8 Aug 10
Living in the real world
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6:46pm Sun 8 Aug 10
If children learnt that there are consequences to their actions or lack of learing at school we would soon see a marked improvement.
Surely not!
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7:05pm Sun 8 Aug 10
TheInsider
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7:11pm Sun 8 Aug 10
All of us still work and paying tax will be paying for another load of people's benefits which (if they have rent/motrgages/famil
ies) will cost you and I, a lot more per annum than if we paid a few extra quid in our council tax to keep these people employed.
These cuts are about pushing money about into different budgets. The council saves money and can shout about how they have kept council tax down, but central Govt will pay out for benefits and the burden for paying for all these benefits will be passed to those of us in work.
Just wait for the next budget when the taxes are increased to cover these job cuts.
stan bailey
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7:31pm Sun 8 Aug 10
pperrin wrote:Unfortunately the parents are often the problem. I am convinced some women just have kids because they don't want to go out to work
Schools don't need to take on this work, schools are for academic education.
These things are the responsiblity of the parents.
Our money has been wasted for years, paying people to undermine parents.
Don't move the waste - just cut it.
mtmoocher
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8:44am Mon 9 Aug 10
Living in the real world wrote:The lack of leering at school may be down to the blitz on short skirts as reported in the recent Argus non-story!
Typical of the union to claim under the HRA how about the rights of the Taxpayer not to fund these people who insist on treating young adults with kid gloves. If a person needs help with a career choice I can think of much better people to go to other than someone who is more interested in being "PC" than dare I say Living in the real world...... If children learnt that there are consequences to their actions or lack of learing at school we would soon see a marked improvement.
clearbluesky
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10:26am Mon 9 Aug 10
Andy R
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11:09am Mon 9 Aug 10
So by this logic a person who has "resigned themselves" to maintaining good personal health has no business being a doctor and giving out medical advice.
mtmoocher
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12:56pm Mon 9 Aug 10
clearbluesky wrote:Another attack on services for those that are marginalised. Connexions may not be the best but what is to replace it & at what cost? I attended a local school of about 1800 pupils. We had a dedicated careers master who ha close links with local companies. When some of his successes prospered, they remembered his help & the cycle continued. He did this job part-time with a modicum of secretarial support. The links he had forged with local companies remained in place after his retirement but large, unwieldy organisations such as Connexions do not retain this personal connection. It needs adjusting & tapering but not abolishing.
A person who resides them self to an unambitious career as a 'careers adviser' is the last person who should be giving out jobs advice to young people. Connexions was a joke when I was at school. Speaking to my young nephews its still a joke now and not relevant to the overwhelming majority of a hard working and ambitious young people. I did some temporary work in a regional office of Connexions a few years back and was astounded by how much money was being frittered away. It was an endless cycle of the service spending money to try and justify its existence so it could continue to spend to continue to justify itself. I'm sure there will be people who can cite a few cases where the service has delivered, but these will be the exception to the rule and not good value for money for the taxpayer.
Baldseagull
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1:27pm Mon 9 Aug 10
TheInsider wrote:You only get benefits when you have burnt up all of your savings.
Those of you looking at whether the service is good or bad have missed the point of the story.
All of us still work and paying tax will be paying for another load of people's benefits which (if they have rent/motrgages/famil
ies) will cost you and I, a lot more per annum than if we paid a few extra quid in our council tax to keep these people employed.
These cuts are about pushing money about into different budgets. The council saves money and can shout about how they have kept council tax down, but central Govt will pay out for benefits and the burden for paying for all these benefits will be passed to those of us in work.
Just wait for the next budget when the taxes are increased to cover these job cuts.
If these people are expert at getting others into real jobs for the first time they should be able to find something for themselves.
TheInsider
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1:47pm Mon 9 Aug 10
If you are in a job, you better start making savings to pay the extra tax to cover all the benefits which will be paid out in the coming year.
MarcoPolo says...
4:29pm Sun 8 Aug 10