Councillor Ged Cooney has blamed the academies in Tameside for the poor Ofsted result obtained overall for the Borough. He said "We have known for sometime that the borough's academy schools, which the council has no control over, were negatively affecting this score." Going on to claim the result was "disproportionately impacted by Academies"
So much for the tragedy of this story, now for the farce. Cllr Cooney laments "However, we are frustrated that we have no power to work with these schools and we are not clear who is doing this if it is happening at at all."
Haven't you Cllr Cooney? We are clear who is doing this. You are, or were. I refer you to 24Dash com of 29th June 2011:-
Cllr Ged Cooney said: “We already have a track record of working in partnership
with New Charter to raise educational standards and help improve the local
community.
"New Charter already has significant involvement with the school and surrounding community and is well placed to take the school forward to a positive future.”
"New Charter already has significant involvement with the school and surrounding community and is well placed to take the school forward to a positive future.”
Your working in partnership with New Charter does not seem to have worked!
New Charter Academy received a "requires improvement" score, Copley received a "Good" result.
Having all those councillors on the boards of New Charter companies has clearly not paid off. Perhaps this explains the departure of various councillors from these boards. Cllr Cooney is not on the board of New Charter building any more. Neither is Cllr Ricci. While Cllr Kieran Quinn, council leader, resigned on 5th November 2014, last month......
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Local political clear out required ASAP.
I think some men wearing purple suits and pound signs may do it next year. I hope so anyway.
Cllr John Taylor, Deputy Leader of Tameside Council, who spoke at the opening event, added: “Most of my 28 years as a councillor were spent in social services so I am well aware of the problems too many women face.
“I am happy to give the initiative my full backing because we have to get away from the revolving door where people are sent to prison, are released and then immediately reoffend and return to jail. It’s very sobering to think that over the last 20 years the female prison population in England and Wales has doubled.
“This isn’t about money, but if schemes like this are successful and people are kept out of jail, the savings will be immense. I wish it every success.”
John Taylor Tameside MBC.
Lock up every 2nd time offender for any crime from theft upwards, for a MANDATORY minimum of five years. Increasing to eight years for burglary, fifteen for robbery etc.
I GUARANTEE reoffending will plummet.
I can't agree with that anonymous 17:53. We live in a country where calling somebody an insensitive name is an offence, fishing without a permit is an offense, riding in a car without a seatbelt is an offense, while at the same time a man bumming a 16 year old boy, bulldozing forests and stealing the nations wealth is perfectly legal.
We need a overhaul of the statute books and if you ask me, a new legal system.
We should do away with statutes and have a law based on common sense. Deviants and traitors are executed, thieves, murderers and the like are outlawed. Making criminals live in the wilderness would work better than centrally heated cells and food on tap, it would kill most of them and give the rest plenty of time to think, unable to go near civilisation, terrified of noise or light.
Better than some Communist bureaucracy any day.
@17:53 lock everyone up who will pay the cost to keep them in there.?
@Serpent Slayer 23:36
We should do away with statutes and have a law based on common sense. Deviants and traitors are executed, thieves, murderers and the like are outlawed. Making criminals live in the wilderness would work better than centrally heated cells and food on tap, it would kill most of them and give the rest plenty of time to think, unable to go near civilisation, terrified of noise or light.
Absolutely spot on.
@ Anonymous 09:59, Repeatedly putting criminals through the courts is massively more expensive than it would be to imprison them for a long period in basic conditions. Also, whilst locked up the immense social costs and damage that criminals inflict on the law abiding and civilisation itself would not occur.
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