The complaints I have heard from head teachers seem to be that the 'enhanced system' just brought in isn't working in some areas. Being an old softie I think that one hungry child is too many.
There is a sense in Parliament that Starmer is on the right track, Johnson admitted yesterday that all was not well but he's having to deal with the effects of ten years of cost cutting. PE points out that only 3,000 of the 18,000 contact tracing workers are qualified for the job, the other 15,000 are outsourced call centre workers and doubts are being expressed about whether normal 'customer Care' skills will cut it.
MD in Private Eye is worth reading again this week.
This comment in PE makes sense.....