{"id":393585,"date":"2019-01-21T07:39:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:39:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/school-bbc-documentary-reveals-impact-of-education-cuts\/"},"modified":"2019-01-21T07:39:00","modified_gmt":"2019-01-21T06:39:00","slug":"school-bbc-documentary-reveals-impact-of-education-cuts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/newswire\/school-bbc-documentary-reveals-impact-of-education-cuts\/","title":{"rendered":"School: BBC documentary reveals impact of education cuts"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"content\">\n<h3 class=\"nomargin\">\u00a0<\/h3>\n<h2><em>School<\/em>: BBC documentary reveals impact of education cuts<\/h2>\n<h5>\n<p>    By<br \/>\n    Tom Pearce and Paul Mitchell<br \/>\n    <br \/>21 January 2019<\/p>\n<\/h5>\n<p>Throughout <em>School<\/em> we hear the refrain \u201cWe have to make our school financially viable.\u201d CEO Will Roberts reveals that CSET has already suffered \u00a31 [US$1.3] million in budget cuts, leaving government funding insufficient to maintain current services. He declares, \u201cWe are at the absolute limit of what we can do with the finance available to us.\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"imageFull\" style=\"width:480px; oveflow:hidden;\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/asset\/0fe0fb0a-a15e-4a68-88eb-f7dcd8a7dd0C\/image.jpg?rendition=image480\" srcset=\"\/asset\/0fe0fb0a-a15e-4a68-88eb-f7dcd8a7dd0C\/image.jpg?rendition=image960 2x\" width=\"480\" style=\"width:480px;\" \/><span>CEO Will Roberts and his three head teachers<\/span><\/div>\n<p>Angie Browne, interim head teacher at Castle school, arrives at a MAT board meeting to be told another \u00a3296,000 of \u201cbudget savings\u201d must be made before the end of the academic year. Redundancies are discussed. You can tell Browne is torn between supporting her staff and having to implement the MAT\u2019s demands. Ultimately it is decided to cut the Teaching and Learning Responsibility payments (TLRs) teachers receive for \u201csignificant\u201d extra work such as behavioural support. Around 40 teachers will suffer a \u00a36,000 pay cut and children will be denied the help they need.<\/p>\n<p>Browne tells her staff about the proposals. There is shock on their faces. A \u201cconsultation period\u201d is proposed\u2014a whitewash, since the decision has already been taken. One teacher says, \u201cTeachers have always worked [above and beyond] without being paid, but there is no motivation now to do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There is clearly a lack of staff. Seventeen teachers having left the school in 2017 heaps pressure on those who remain and results in poor behaviour of pupils. One science teacher says, \u201cSchools are under increasing pressure to turn out the numbers [results] and teachers are putting stress on the pupils.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>With only six staff in the pastoral support team after staff and hours were halved last year,&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsws.org\/en\/articles\/2019\/01\/21\/scho-j21.html\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 School: BBC documentary reveals impact of education cuts By Tom Pearce and Paul Mitchell 21 January 2019 Throughout School we hear the refrain \u201cWe have to make our school financially viable.\u201d CEO Will Roberts reveals that CSET has already suffered \u00a31 [US$1.3] million in budget cuts, leaving government funding insufficient to maintain current services. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2526,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-393585","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393585","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2526"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=393585"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393585\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=393585"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=393585"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=393585"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}