Comments on: Fair funding for Haringey Schools http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/11/fair-funding-for-haringey-schools-debate.htm Liberal Democrat MP for Hornsey and Wood Green Sat, 20 Mar 2010 17:32:31 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: Fiona Campbell http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/11/fair-funding-for-haringey-schools-debate.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2437 Fiona Campbell Thu, 05 Nov 2009 14:03:06 +0000 http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/?p=5347#comment-2437 This funding gap is totally immoral. It has a huge impact on schools in Haringey and is just not good enough. Don't tell me that the government couldn't find the money - it is a drop in the ocean for them in the grand scheme of things. Please keep pushing them, Lynne, as it really matters. Haringey is a borough on the frontline of the gap between rich and poor, and even a rich school would struggle to cope with a £1183 deficit per child. Not only is it not fair, it is downright dangerous for the government to ignore Greater London boroughs such as Haringey. We are not far off a situation like Paris, where the suburbs are so underprivileged that they erupt into violence and people are afraid to go there. Is that what we want for British Society? No. So sort it out. PS I wrote to Ed Balls about this and got a letter basically fobbing me off. This funding gap is totally immoral. It has a huge impact on schools in Haringey and is just not good enough. Don't tell me that the government couldn't find the money - it is a drop in the ocean for them in the grand scheme of things. Please keep pushing them, Lynne, as it really matters. Haringey is a borough on the frontline of the gap between rich and poor, and even a rich school would struggle to cope with a £1183 deficit per child. Not only is it not fair, it is downright dangerous for the government to ignore Greater London boroughs such as Haringey. We are not far off a situation like Paris, where the suburbs are so underprivileged that they erupt into violence and people are afraid to go there. Is that what we want for British Society? No. So sort it out.

PS I wrote to Ed Balls about this and got a letter basically fobbing me off.

]]> By: Lynne Featherstone http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/11/fair-funding-for-haringey-schools-debate.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2436 Lynne Featherstone Thu, 05 Nov 2009 13:41:17 +0000 http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/?p=5347#comment-2436 Thanks Rob - link should work now! Thanks Rob - link should work now!

]]> By: Rob Worth http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/2009/11/fair-funding-for-haringey-schools-debate.htm/comment-page-1#comment-2435 Rob Worth Thu, 05 Nov 2009 10:53:21 +0000 http://www.lynnefeatherstone.org/?p=5347#comment-2435 Glad that this annomally is getting sorted out. Good work. (The direct link to the parliament.uk site doesn't work for me.) Rob Glad that this annomally is getting sorted out. Good work.

(The direct link to the parliament.uk site doesn't work for me.)

Rob

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