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EDSK
@EDSKthinktank
Teachers are to receive a 3.1% pay rise following their “vital contribution” during the coronavirus outbreak.

However the funding for the pay rise is expected to have to come from within schools’ existing budgets.

(via
@wstewarttes
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RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.
Bet School Business Leaders are loving this one...

EDSK
@EDSKthinktank
Teachers are to receive a 3.1% pay rise following their “vital contribution” during the coronavirus outbreak.
However the funding for the pay rise is expected to have to come from within schools’ existing budgets.
(via
@wstewarttes
)

Depending on the school, staff budgets are around 80% if total costs...

Committee members said they could not definitively conclude whether the Kremlin had or had not successfully interfered in the Brexit vote because no effort had been made to find out.

“Even if the conclusion of any such assessment were that there was minimal interference, this would nonetheless represent a helpful reassurance to the public that the UK’s democratic processes had remained relatively safe,” the report added.

At the press conference Stewart Hosie says Russia did try to influence the Brexit referendum. He says it is impossible to tell how influential it was. But he says what was really striking was the government’s refusal to even consider what impact this might have had. He says the government “actively avoided” trying to address this issue.

 Russian influence in the UK is the new normal. Successive
Governments have welcomed the oligarchs and their money with open
arms, providing them with a means of recycling illicit finance through
the London ‘laundromat’, and connections at the highest levels with
access to UK companies and political figures.
 This has led to a growth industry of ‘enablers’ including lawyers,
accountants, and estate agents who are – wittingly or unwittingly – de
facto agents of the Russian state.
 It clearly demonstrates the inherent tension between the Government’s
prosperity agenda and the need to protect national security. While we
cannot now shut the stable door, greater powers and transparency are
needed urgently.
 UK is clearly a target for Russian disinformation. While the mechanics
of our paper-based voting system are largely sound, we cannot be
complacent about a hostile state taking deliberate action with the aim of
influencing our democratic processes.
 Yet the defence of those democratic processes has appeared
something of a ‘hot potato’, with no one organisation considering itself
to be in the lead, or apparently willing to conduct an assessment of
such interference. This must change.
 Social media companies must take action and remove covert hostile
state material: Government must ‘name and shame’ those who fail to
act.
 We need other countries to step up with the UK and attach a cost to
Putin’s actions. Salisbury must not be allowed to become the high water
mark in international unity over the Russia threat.
 A number of issues addressed

This prompted an angry response from parents and the Campaign For Real Education, which said that education staff who had been refusing to return to the classroom with the backing of militant unions 'didn't deserve a pay rise'.

The think-tank's chairman, Chris McGovern, told MailOnline: 'It's a bit like the Saxons paying Danegald to the Vikings. It's trying to win favour with the profession and the unions, who have behaved appallingly by effectively keeping schools closed.'

Meanwhile, some parents took to Twitter to brand the pay rise 'ridiculous' when unions had been 'blocking attempts to reopen classrooms'.

frog222 wrote:

RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.
Bet School Business Leaders are loving this one...

EDSK
@EDSKthinktank
Teachers are to receive a 3.1% pay rise following their “vital contribution” during the coronavirus outbreak.
However the funding for the pay rise is expected to have to come from within schools’ existing budgets.
(via
@wstewarttes
)

Depending on the school, staff budgets are around 80% if total costs...

I don't know how the bbc news, and even FFS the Guardian liveblog are reporting as 'rises' £'s which are coming out of existing budgets.

Delyn MP Rob Roberts is facing allegations of inappropriate behaviour towards two junior members of parliamentary staff.

Messages seen by BBC Wales show the MP inviting a 21-year-old female intern to "fool around" with him.

He has also admitted asking out another House of Commons employee, which led them to move position.

Mr Roberts said he recognised the request to the staff member "was inappropriate".

But he did not provide a comment about the messages sent to the female intern, when asked for a response.

"I gave MI5 direct correspondence between Russian embassy officials and senior Brexit campaigners, but nothing happened. There was huge interest from US agencies about what Russian officials were doing in the referendum, but UK agencies didn’t want to know."

jonathan harvey @WinterFell1701 Jul 21, 2020
Replying to @MarkUrban01
Surely, if MI5, MI6 etc got a directive to investigate from the government then things would have been different?
Mark Urban @MarkUrban01
That’s relevant to MI6 and GCHQ but even then isn’t the complete answer. Also, as members of the ISC have pointed out, MI5 is able to self task, could have moved this up the agenda

Stephen Bush
@stephenkb
The endgame of Shaun Bailey's campaign for the mayoralty will surely be running against cycle schemes backed and indeed probably driven through by central government.
4:29 PM · Jul 21, 2020·Twitter Web App

A decade after the BBC moved thousands of jobs north to Salford amid accusations that it was too London-centric, the broadcaster has been told by the government its programmes are now pandering to the “metropolitan elite” of Manchester.

In a sign of changing attitudes towards England’s second city that may please and dismay Mancunians in equal measure, the culture minister, John Whittingdale, has warned the BBC against making shows that appeal to the city’s cultural elite.

RogerOThornhill wrote: Campaign For Real Education

frog222 wrote:

RogerOThornhill wrote:Morning all.
Bet School Business Leaders are loving this one...

EDSK
@EDSKthinktank
Teachers are to receive a 3.1% pay rise following their “vital contribution” during the coronavirus outbreak.
However the funding for the pay rise is expected to have to come from within schools’ existing budgets.
(via
@wstewarttes
)

Depending on the school, staff budgets are around 80% if total costs...

I don't know how the bbc news, and even FFS the Guardian liveblog are reporting as 'rises' £'s which are coming out of existing budgets.