Maggie Fricker, Southampton Socialist Party Southampton city councillors faced a lot of angry people on 19 July at their full council meeting. On the steps outside were parents, staff and children from ‘Southampton Fair Funding for All Schools’ who handed in their petition demanding the council licence school deficits and the halting of school funding […]
Nick Chaffey , Southampton Devastating Tory cuts are set to continue unless action is taken. School funding has hit the headlines since the election as a key issue among voters. No wonder, with 60% of secondary schoolsrunning deficits. In Southampton one school has asked parents to volunteer to clean the toilets! Other schools have stopped […]
Paul Couchman, Staines Socialist Party The Fire Brigades Union (FBU) in Surrey has passed a motion of no confidence in the local fire authority, saying planned budget cuts will see firefighter numbers plummet. Already in Surrey, since 2010, firefighter numbers have been reduced and the FBU says that a further £10 million of budget cuts […]