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Tag Archives: Michael Gove
Factsheet and Twitter: Gove’s answer to council housing crisis
Measures to improve the state of social housing and to guarantee tenants a decent place to live have been announced this morning by the government – 15 years after similar proposals were first agreed. Michael Gove, as the Levelling Up … Continue reading
Council looks to second postponement of budget meeting
CROYDON IN CRISIS: Town Hall chiefs still trying to negotiate another multi-million-pound government bail-out, with time running out to issue 136,000 Council Tax notices. By STEVEN DOWNES The council is on the brink of crashing into bankruptcy, unable to set … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Business, Children's Services, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Hamida Ali, Improvement Board, Katherine Kerswell, Richard Ennis, Tony McArdle
Tagged Council Tax, Croydon Council, Department for Levelling Up, Hamida Ali, Improvement Board, Katherine Kerswell, Labour, Michael Gove, Tony McArdle
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Met Police confirm fraud review into £67.5m Fairfield fiasco
KEN LEE reports on the latest twist in the council’s headlong rush towards bankruptcy, and perhaps worse, with the Town Hall’s fate in the hands of Michael Gove The Metropolitan Police have confirmed that they have opened an investigation into … Continue reading
Posted in Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Croydon Council, Improvement Board, Jo Negrini, Katherine Kerswell, Report in the Public Interest, RIPI II: Fairfield Halls, Section 114 notice, Tony McArdle, Tony Newman
Tagged Alison Butler, Brick by Brick, Conservative, Croydon Council, Fairfield Halls, Grant Thornton, Housing Revenue Account, Improvement Board, Jo Negrini, Labour, London Borough of Croydon, Michael Gove, Report in the Public Interest, RIPI, Tony McArdle, Tony Newman, Tory
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Gove won’t ‘level up’ with an extra £1.50 per person per year
With the government’s settlement for local councils announced this week, our columnist ANDREW FISHER takes a look at what Michael Gove and his so-called ‘Levelling Up’ department is really offering “Billions more for councils to build back better” reads the … Continue reading
Posted in Adult Social Care, Andrew Fisher, Callton Young, Children's Services, Council Tax, Croydon Council, Val Shawcross
Tagged Andrew Fisher, Conservative, Council Tax, Council Tax Support, Croydon, Croydon Council, Department for Levelling Up, DLUHC, Housing and Communities, MHCLG, Michael Gove, Tory
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Reshuffle sees Philp shunted sideways to the ‘Ministry of Fun’
Political editor WALTER CRONXITE on the unlucky ‘escape’ in the government reshuffle for Croydon’s only Conservative MP Croydon’s only Tory MP has finally made his escape from the clutches of Priti Patel at the Home Office. There are rumours, unconfirmed, … Continue reading
Posted in Boris Johnson, Chris Philp MP, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Housing, Improvement Board, Surrey
Tagged Chris Philp MP, Croydon, Croydon Council, Croydon South, Culture, DCMS, Department of Digital, Media and Sport, MHCLG, Michael Gove, Ministry of Housing Communities and Local Government, Nadine Dorries, Surrey Heath
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Report warns that Tory-run Surrey council could go bust
All those residents in true blue wards to the south of the borough, who dream of the day when Coulsdon can declare their own little version of UDI and hitch themselves to a neighbouring council, might want to be careful … Continue reading
Posted in Outside Croydon, Surrey
Tagged Chris Grayling, David Hodge, Jeremy Hunt, Joanna Killian, Michael Gove, Philip Hammond, Surrey, Surrey County Council
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How was your child affected by Norbury free school shambles?
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, makes an appeal to hear from parents who considered applying for a place for their son or daughter to attend one of Michael Gove’s promised free schools Inside Croydon wants to hear from you if … Continue reading
Posted in Advance School, Education, Norbury, Schools, Thornton Heath
Tagged Advance Norbury, Conservative, Croydon, Croydon North, Education, Free Schools, Michael Gove, Norbury, Thornton Heath, Tory
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Cynical Croydon charging children £3,500 for remedial lessons
GENE BRODIE, our education correspondent, reports on some disturbing developments at the borough’s state primary schools Croydon Council is charging the parents of some primary school children more than £3,500 per year just so that they can receive their legal right … Continue reading
Our two-year-olds need a childhood, not lessons in Latin
SUSAN OLIVER, pictured left, wants the borough’s teaching professionals to come forward and make their voices heard, perhaps even to challenge the controlling orthodoxies of Michael Gove and Ofsted Children should be taught in schools from the age of two … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Riesco Collection, Schools, Susan Oliver
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Education, England, Michael Gove, nursery schools, Ofsted, schools
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One-fifth of an academy’s pupils “disappear” before GCSEs
An academy run by the Harris Federation in Croydon saw more than one-fifth of its pupils “disappear” before it was time for them to take their GCSEs. According to a report in yesterday’s Guardian newspaper, there was a fall of … Continue reading
MP Reed calls on Gove to turn police station into school
The police station in South Norwood, closed by London Mayor Boris Johnson and put up for sale to be turned into flats, ought to be used to provide a new school for the area. That’s the view of Steve Reed … Continue reading
Harris primary reduces SEN support and adjusts report grades
Parents at what was once the high-attaining Roke Primary have lasted just half a term before losing all patience with the school’s new academy management, and they are now accusing the Harris Federation of trying to force out of the … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Kenley, Roke Primary, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Department for Education, Harris, Harris Academy, Harris Federation, Michael Gove, Roke, Roke Primary
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How you can tell which schools are really making the grade
School pupils – whether attending the borough’s high-profile independents, our state secondaries or the privatised academies – will be receiving their life-shaping GCSE, AS and A level results in the next few weeks. Education correspondent GENE BRODIE provides an insider’s … Continue reading
Posted in Archbishop Lanfranc, Archbishop Tenison's, Coloma, Croydon High, Education, Old Palace, Roke Primary, Schools, Trinity School, Whitgift School
Tagged Croydon, Department for Education, EBacc, English as a second or foreign language, GCSE, General Certificate of Secondary Education, Michael Gove, Riddlesdown Collegiate
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Gove’s Roke “consultation” uses figures that do not add up
One of the basics taught at every primary school is adding up. Trouble with Michael Gove, the education secretary, and the “consultation” he commissioned on the future of Roke Primary School, is that none of it adds up. Roke is … Continue reading
Roke Primary victim of “overzealous” Gove, says Tory MP
Readers of a nervous disposition should look away now. The following article contains flashing lights and some robust English language and may not be suitable for those under the age of about 12. Or Michael Gove. If further proof were … Continue reading
Posted in Croydon South, Education, Kenley, Richard Ottaway MP, Roke Primary
Tagged Croydon, Department for Education, Harris, Harris Federation, Michael Gove, Richard Ottaway, Roke, Tory
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Highly objectionable: Roke parents lodge academy complaints
The sham “consultation” over the future of Roke Primary in Kenley, in which Michael Gove, the education secretary, wants to hand over the public property of a recently built, high-achieving school, to a Conservative party donor, ended on Friday. The Save … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Roke Primary
Tagged Conservative, Department for Education, Harris Federation, Michael Gove, Primary school, Richard Ottaway, Riddlesdown, Roke
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Roke parents in legal challenge against “dictator” Gove
The Save Roke group is to launch a legal challenge to the plans of Michael Gove, the education minister, to hand their primary school over to a private academy. The group announced its plans last night, and is working with … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Roke Primary, Schools
Tagged Conservative, Croydon, Department for Education, Harris Federation, Kenley, London, Michael Gove, Ofsted
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Roke and a tale of “threats, bribes and fake consultations”
George Monbiot, the Guardian journalist who established ArrestBlair.org and apologised to Lord McAlpine, has entered the row over Roke Primary in Kenley being handed over to a carpet salesman by education secretary Michael Gove. In a coruscating piece criticising Gove’s … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Roke Primary, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Department for Education, England, George Monbiot, Harris Federation, Kenley, Michael Gove, Tory
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Angry Roke parents accuse minister of misleading over status
Parents of children at Roke Primary in Kenley have responded angrily to a letter from Department for Education under-secretary Lord Nash – which Inside Croydon published last month – effectively accusing the Tory peer of deliberately misleading over results and … Continue reading
Posted in Education, Roke Primary, Schools
Tagged Croydon, Department for Education, Harris, Harris Federation, Lord Nash, Michael Gove, Ofsted, Roke
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