Glemsford Primary: Head and Governors suspended in laptop fraud case
Glemsford's website I reported on my blog back in January about the leasing fraud that Glemsford Primary School had fallen "vi...
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Just who is Margaret Read and why does nobody seem to know her?
As I reported earlier someone calling themselves Margaret Read has been emailing information about the Stoke by Nayland free school proposa...
Petition to Suffolk County Council on Free Schools
I have submitted a petition to Suffolk County Council on Free Schools calling on them to end the "presumption" of support for Fre...
Suffolk Libraries: Where now for the IPS?
Suffolk Libraries IPS has certainly had a difficult birth. No doubt the County Council would claim that "doing things differently&quo...
Suffolk Free Schools: My Views
This week I published a number of articles about free schools in Suffolk as a result of the response I received to a freedom of informatio...
Dead Men Village Launch in Stradbroke Library
Richard Pierce Photo by kind permission of Near the Coast Last night in the Courthouse, Stradbroke the home of Stradbroke Library local ...
Free School FOI Shorts: Felixstowe to have two schools again?
Over the last few years there has been a big push in Felixstowe to create a single secondary school. Currently the two previous schools Debe...
Free School FOI Shorts: County Council Impact Assessment for the DfE
Freedom of Information requests give an interesting insight into how local government works and what you find is by no means all bad. In fac...
Suffolk Free Schools: No choice without transport
In a rural area transport to school is a big issue. In many secondary schools in Suffolk most of the children arrive by bus from outlying ...
Free School FOI Shorts: Cllr Spicer's promise of locality funds to Ixworth questioned
Back in November I blogged about Cllr Spicer offering what appeared to be £1000 of her County Council locality funds to the Ixworth Free Sch...
My response to Graham Watson's Letter: Our Children, Our Choice
Graham Watson, Director of the Seckford Foundation wrote a letter to me yesterday (that you can see under my reply below). This is my reply...
Stoke by Nayland Free School: 'kick up the backside' for coasting neighbouring schools with inexcusable poor performance.
As you may have read on this Blog free school proposers have been insistent that existing schools should distribute their promotional materi...
Shona Bendix takes over as Chair of Suffolk Libraries IPS
Shona Bendix, Chair of Suffolk Libraries IPS Shona Bendix has taken over as Chairman of Suffolk Libraries IPS today as Clive Fox the ina...
Free School FOI Shorts: Parents "whooped" into support for Free School by MP on back of anger at middle schools closing
It has been clear throughout the story of free schools in Suffolk that the proposals to set up completely new 11-16 free schools have been...
Suffolk Free Schools: County Council changed response to DfE for "political" reasons
Suffolk County Council were asked by the DfE to give their views of the proposed Suffolk Free Schools. A thorough response was drafted by Co...
Free School FOI Shorts: Suffolk CC "we should stick to the DfE and Seckford foundation line"
Simon White Director of Childrens and Young peoples services In Mid December Education Portfolio Holder Cllr Graham Newman received what...
Very Norfolk "bomb scare" closes Diss Town Centre
As a blogger I can spend quite a bit of time investigating some stories. Wading through hundreds of pages of information, emailing, phoning ...
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