tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post495259825007456664..comments2024-03-29T11:40:14.992+00:00Comments on WEMBLEY MATTERS: Fightback against the Education & Adoption Bill - House of Commons Meeting on MondayUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-37951380441187017762015-06-20T18:38:04.462+01:002015-06-20T18:38:04.462+01:00On the matter of provision for children with speci...On the matter of provision for children with special educational needs, I believe it relevant that Skill (National Bureau for people in post-16 education) closed in April 2011 when the Tory-Lib Dem coalition was less than a year old and was allegedly intent on getting disabled people away from a prospectus of lifelong 'benefits dependency'.<br /><br />Skill's special Youth website has/had <a href="http://www.skill.org.uk/youth/index.aspx" rel="nofollow">an interactive map</a>. The text for the 'Hello start here' button revealed that its purpose was to "help you choose your options and choices in education, training and work and is for 11-25 year olds"<br /><br />Other buttons on that map include[d] 'My support', 'Access To Fun' and 'Getting about'. Not much point in those of course, since Blair <br />• halved the length of jobcentre-funded training periods in year 2000 so as to double the throughput from the dole queue, and<br />• made an investment banker [David Freud] his 'welfare reform guru' as prelude to Freud joining the Tory front bench as life peer and Welfare Reform Minister<br />was there?Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2129943063330427887.post-14989465966664347672015-06-20T13:26:01.535+01:002015-06-20T13:26:01.535+01:00The only reference here to 'adoption' is i...The only reference here to 'adoption' is in the name of the Bill. Yet ex-Education Secretary Michael Gove was adopted by a wealthy family at a few months old when his poorer parents could not cope.<br /><br />This matter no doubt influenced Gove's life-view, while Green Party member and ex-Social Worker and ex-lone parent Jean Robertson-Molloy is one of the founder members of Movement for and Adoption Apology, which has Green Party backing.Kilburn Unemployed Workers Grouphttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17281633520479831796noreply@blogger.com