I’ve been trying to find time to write this blog for the last week or so. But I’ve been busy – helping out at school serving breakfast before sports day, counting the money and doing the end of year accounts for the PTA, and fitting in my full time job aswell. Not only am I [...]
Archive for July, 2010
Big Society
Posted in Politics, The Coalition on July 23, 2010 | 3 Comments »
The NHS: This is The End
Posted in Health, Politics, The Coalition, Welfare on July 19, 2010 | 12 Comments »
It is two months since the General Election and already the past feels like another country. Two parties who didn’t seem to agree on anything are now in government together – and between them they have somehow agreed that the National Health Service should be consigned to the dustbin of history. I don’t recall either [...]
A smaller degree
Posted in Children, tagged higher education; coalition; university; on July 16, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Vince Cable has the solution to the crisis about to unfold in higher education. Two year degrees! Those lazy inefficient boffins can teach 40 weeks of the year, and produce more graduates, with less resource. Some courses, he claims, have a meagre 8 hours of teaching time per week! Of course students can work harder [...]
Do you organise your emails?
Posted in Budget, feminism, Health, tagged DH waste email on July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Because the Department of Health thinks you should! Here is a photo of a poster from an unnamed source at the Department of Health. I don’t know where to start with what is wrong with this. Patronising, sexist, a waste of money. Searching and tagging is better than folders anyway. And what category are the [...]
Those Bloody (DLA) Forms
Posted in Budget, Disability, Politics, The Coalition, Welfare on July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
I n a previous life, I worked as a welfare rights adviser and eventually managed free legal advice services for carers and disabled people living in one of the poorest London boroughs. Much, much of our work involved resolving problems with claims for Disability Living Allowance (DLA). In my time I have been to tribunals [...]
We’re back!
Posted in Children on July 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
We can’t keep quiet any more! We’ve had a break in posting over the last few months, but its time to shake off the cobwebs and open the windows. Coalition government is upon us, and the pace of announcements coming out of Whitehall is astounding. Watch out for our reactions and thoughts over the next [...]
