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Seb Schmoller
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Here to learn & share. Wrote/ran TUC courses for union representatives. Ran Sheffield College's educational IT. Led ALT. Did techish consultancy. Still deeply involved in FE governance. Nearing the end of a maths degree. Politics, FE, outdoors, Sheffield.
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It's worth noting that Eric Pickles had prior form as Conservative Leader of Bradford City Council, before he became an MP and subsequently a government minister. See: citizen-network.org/library/the-...

“£5.8 million was cut from the budget, chiefly in Education. Up went council rents, the first of two such increases within 6 months. Up went charges for leisure centres, theatre hire, car parks, school meals, home helps, meals on wheels, elderly luncheon clubs and cemeteries. Staff cuts were announced amongst repairs and maintenance workers, caretakers, teachers, creche and nursery workers, social workers and council officers. Job vacancies would remain unfilled and budgets slashed in most departments. The council's Old Peoples Homes would be sold off and Benefit Advice Centres closed. For the largely poor inhabitants of the inner city it was a terrifying package and it was only the start.”
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Pickles was an immensely destructive minister. Shut RDA & GO network hampering regional development and resilience, slashed local government funding, damaged the relationship between ministers & civil servants by publicly briefing against the latter, abolished regional housing targets.

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Seb Schmoller
@sebschmoller.bsky.social
Here to learn & share. Wrote/ran TUC courses for union representatives. Ran Sheffield College's educational IT. Led ALT. Did techish consultancy. Still deeply involved in FE governance. Nearing the end of a maths degree. Politics, FE, outdoors, Sheffield.
533 followers825 following333 posts
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