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Sat 14 Apr 2012, 7:26 pm | ab origineMember
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| http://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/exclusive-cleggs-drive-to-recruit-65000-state-nannies-7645973.html - Quote :
- An army of 65,000 nursery workers is to be recruited under radical government plans to prepare children as young as two for success at school.
Nick Clegg is to take charge of family policy, ordering a massive expansion in nursery places, vowing to tackle the "crippling" cost of childcare and overhauling parental leave. In a deeply personal interview with The Independent on Sunday, the father of three revealed he hoped his legacy from his time in government would be removing the barriers to social mobility, which mean bright children from poorer backgrounds are overtaken by youngsters from more affluent families by the age of six.
"Every parent wants their child to do better than they did, and every parent wants their child to fulfil their potential," he said. State intervention to teach children as young as two will form the centrepiece of his "obsession" which will see childcare made the coalition's highest priority social policy. Next month he will make a major announcement on his "passion" for shared parental leave and for extending the rights of flexible working.
And he pledged to take on those with the "sepia-tinted 1950s" opinion that mothers should not work, after attacks on his City lawyer wife Miriam, claiming her critics are as "weird" as homophobes. With less than three weeks until the local elections, Mr Clegg seeks to move the political agenda on from post-Budget rows, while striking a more independent tone.
But Professor Colin Rallings and Professor Michael Thrasher, in an analysis for the Political Studies Association, warn that the Liberal Democrats face another difficult set of elections on 3 May. "They could easily find themselves another 200 seats or so down and with fewer than 3,000 councillors across the country for the first time since 1986," they said. "That would represent a further blow to a party whose whole electoral strategy has been based on building up from the grass roots."
Mr Clegg admits the elections will be "tough", but thinks the Lib Dems are entering a "new phase". He refuses to give in to Lib Dems, claiming he should "poke David Cameron in the eye", admits the Government is "in a rut" after successive Budget announcements backfired, and suggests people are "starting to listen" to his message for the first time after two years of "hatred and bile".
Striking a radical new tone, he reveals he hopes his political legacy will be for children from poor backgrounds to achieve more in life, including aspiring to university. "It's the big purpose of why we are in politics in the first place," he said.
Early intervention in the lives of children is "one of the most radical things we are doing and don't shout about enough", he said.
From next year, 260,000 children from the poorest 40 per cent of families in England will receive 15 hours of free childcare during term time, in a move costing £650m. While a cross-party consensus has emerged on the issue, in Westminster at least, the policy risks reopening the debate about state involvement in raising children.
Earlier this year, a Daycare Trust survey revealed more than half of councils do not believe they will be able to meet the Government's target of providing the places for two-year-olds by 2014. Instead, Mr Clegg will pledge to recruit an extra 65,000 nursery workers from September 2013, based on the Government's current assumption of one member of staff per four children. A source said: "In Birmingham alone, it will mean 8,000 additional childcare places, creating 2,000 new jobs."
It is hoped the major expansion in the childcare workforce will also help to ease the pressure on middle-income parents. Childcare costs for under-twos is up 6 per cent year on year, with the cost of 25 hours a week totalling £5,103 on average.
Mr Clegg adds: "If you are a bright but poor kid, despite all the good intentions of the last decade or so, you are still more likely to be taken over in the classroom by a less bright but more affluent child by the age of six or seven.
"What do you do to make children school ready? So even before they hang up their coats they are ready to learn; they are ready to mix with other children; they are enthusiastic, able to be disciplined in class. That's a really big undertaking."
He claims Labour "never dared" to be so bold in tackling social mobility. However, the Rallings and Thrasher analysis, due to be published this week, suggests that Labour could be on course to make big gains in the local elections. The Tories could lose 100 seats in England's metropolitan boroughs.
This really pisses me off. "Social Mobility" MY ARSE. |
| | | | Sat 14 Apr 2012, 7:33 pm | ab origineMember
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- after attacks on his City lawyer wife Miriam, claiming her critics are as "weird" as homophobes
Cleggy, you tricksy little bitch. |
| | | | Sat 14 Apr 2012, 7:35 pm | peabrainJunior Member
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| So 65,000 psychopaths are getting new jobs. |
| | | | Sat 14 Apr 2012, 7:37 pm | peabrainJunior Member
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| - ab origine wrote:
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- after attacks on his City lawyer wife Miriam, claiming her critics are as "weird" as homophobes
Cleggy, you tricksy little bitch. Oh he's a bumper that one, spineless and shameless. |
| | | | Sat 14 Apr 2012, 7:55 pm | peabrainJunior Member
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| | | | Sat 14 Apr 2012, 7:58 pm | ab origineMember
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| | | | Sat 14 Apr 2012, 8:04 pm | ab origineMember
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| I apologise for my outbursts this morning. I'm feeling extremely volatile for some reason. I shall retire to by boudoir in contemplation. Night all. |
| | | | Sun 15 Apr 2012, 5:29 am | pskettiSenior Member
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| - ab origine wrote:
- I apologise for my outbursts this morning. I'm feeling extremely volatile for some reason.
I like it when you're fiesty ... don't apologise for that, you've no need to |
| | | | Wed 18 Apr 2012, 12:33 am | XylariaNewbie
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| The blair government brought this in as the sure start program. Because I lived in the right[?] postcode when my kids were little and i was looking for something that might give better job prospects i ended up vice chair on their parent policy committe.
We would turn up for meetings and get told what what they would be doing, no dicussion required, we were only needed to make it look like they were consulting not dicating. The manager of workers eductional society barely survived because she pointed out the training courses sure start were setting up to train women to do a minium wage dead end jobs [classroom assistants and nursery nurses], so they minuplated her funding until she had to close all her courses that had cheche place. WES had got women into running their own buisnesses and going uni before this. but she had stood up and made too many valid objections, used the phrase "social engineering" , so surestart nearly closed the society even though it had ran in the city for nearly a 100 years. I repeatedly asked to see the central policy document, request refused with a whole host of excuses such as "it is too difficult read" "it is not really writen for service users" . I wasnt too worried about been patronised at this point as I found they had a policy of so many staff per head "service users" to maintain " the monitoring of child protection." A rather not bright nursery nurse told me the main part of her job was to report child protection issues of users to sure start managers, and that she had to do it every day. Needless to say I felt very spied on. They would wangle their way into parent and toddler groups, take over and then close them or turn them into spying programs. They drained resouces from things like speech therpy. If you stood up to the wrong member of staff you risked getting the SS round.
So the project contunes under the new government, same shit differant face. The sure start policy was horrific, but it served the agenda for removing children from their parents in one way of another or another nicely.
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| | | | Wed 18 Apr 2012, 12:41 am | SmokedJunior Member
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| Xylaria,
Interesting post thanks for sharing an inside perspective. |
| | | | Wed 18 Apr 2012, 1:27 am | pskettiSenior Member
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| I've heard people with younger children complaining about these very things. It's terrible the way our duties as parents are slowly being eroded away. It's all very sad and I'm glad I don't have children who are little anymore. I despair for those who do though |
| | | | Wed 18 Apr 2012, 5:11 am | ab origineMember
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| - Smoked wrote:
- Xylaria,
Interesting post thanks for sharing an inside perspective. +1 |
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