Tag: Stoke
No More False Dawns?
Wat Tyler Tue Jun 17, 2008 at 10:47:33 AM GMT 
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Stoke-on-Trent City Council looks to appoint a high flying team to lead its £2billion push for regeneration.
Hutton's Wake Up- Call to Troubled Stoke.
Wat Tyler Tue Feb 19, 2008 at 04:07:15 PM GMT
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A report written by Will Hutton, Chief Executive of the Work Foundation, has concluded that it could take thirty years to fully regenerate the Potteries.
Stoke schools shock
Mike Ion Thu Dec 13, 2007 at 06:32:55 PM GMT
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The piece below appears in this week's edition of Tribune.
Stoke-on-Trent City Council, which was forced by the government to sub-contract its children's services to the private firm Serco, is looking to close all its secondary schools as part of a £200m reorganisation programme. The plans have been drawn up by Serco and are backed by Mark Meredith, the elected Mayor of the City and a keen supporter of the government’s policies on both Trust schools and academies. Indeed in a recent letter to the city’s school headteachers and chair of Governors Mr Meredith uses Lord Adonis type language when he describes the proposals as an attempt to ‘escape the straightjacket of the traditional comprehensive school and embrace the idea of genuinely independent non-fee paying state schools. It is to break down the barriers to new providers, to schools associating with outside sponsors, to the ability to start and expand schools; and to give parental choice its proper place.’
Stoke-on-Trent City Council, which was forced by the government to sub-contract its children's services to the private firm Serco, is looking to close all its secondary schools as part of a £200m reorganisation programme. The plans have been drawn up by Serco and are backed by Mark Meredith, the elected Mayor of the City and a keen supporter of the government’s policies on both Trust schools and academies. Indeed in a recent letter to the city’s school headteachers and chair of Governors Mr Meredith uses Lord Adonis type language when he describes the proposals as an attempt to ‘escape the straightjacket of the traditional comprehensive school and embrace the idea of genuinely independent non-fee paying state schools. It is to break down the barriers to new providers, to schools associating with outside sponsors, to the ability to start and expand schools; and to give parental choice its proper place.’
