Dear Brian
Many thanks for your email, it is exceedingly useful.
The replies I had received had basically said that at the moment there was
no policy change, until we hear otherwise from the government, which is why
I had not sent the replies out on GEM.
Many thanks
Claire
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Subject: Re: Government policy on young people
Claire
I didn't notice any open replies to this, but I have just got hold of a
Department for Education circular which has recently been made public and
thought it would be worth sharing. Its in the form of a letter from Michael
Gove replying to a letter he had from Ed Balls about the governments
education priorities and is dated 7 June this year. The text is detailed to
say the least, mostly about the Dedicated Schools Grant. Michael Gave says
that the Department for Education will 'make a contribution of £670m to the
£6.2 billion savings announced by the Chancellor and Chief Secretary on
24th May as a first step in tackling the unprecedented deficit we face'.
There is an annex attached which contains a breakdown of £359 million
savings.
There is nothing about the specific policies you mention, but the annex
contains some evidence of priorities for children and young people as they
might affect museums and their partners. These include scaling back the
support for delivery of diplomas (savings £13.2m), stopping funding the
development of the Diploma and related qualifications (savings £9m),
reducing the TDA's non-Initial Teacher Training budgets ie marketing and
communications (savings £30m), abolition of BECTA (savings £10m),
reductions in 14-19 and youth taskforce communications budgets (savings
£4m), ending Entry to Learning pilots (savings £4m), 14-19 efficiencies
and 'stopping lower priority projects' (savings £4.1m), not proceeding with
Rose curriculum review and scaling back initiatives on PSHE, Citizenship and
RE (savings £7m), cancelling last round of grants to Youth Sector
Development Fund (savings (8m), not proceeding with new cadre of High
Performing Specialist Schools (savings £7m) and there are various other
smaller savings from non-frontline funds and projects. There will also be
£25m capital savings from Extended Schools and 8m from Specialist Schools.
In time policies will be brought in to cover those reduced or withdrawn,
though the only think that seems certain is that the government have
committed to develop apprenticeships rather than diplomas and that the
agenda is money-saving rather than about education strategy. There is bound
to be even more food for thought for us, particularly on local government,
in the budget statement this afternoon.
Regards
Brian Holmshaw
Education Consultant
Sheffield
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