Police chiefs have warned Yvette Cooper about severe cuts to frontline officers and staff because of a £300 million funding shortfall. The Telegraph has the story.
Ten forces have written to the Home Secretary predicting that they will be more than £300 million short in the police funding settlement due to be announced this week, forcing major reductions to frontline officers, police community support officers (PCSOs) and staff numbers next year.
The chief constables and police and crime commissioners (PCCs) are seeking talks with ministers about the scale of the cuts, with one force alone warning it would have to axe more than 200 police officer posts and half of its PCSOs to balance the books.
The ten forces include Bedfordshire, Cambridgeshire, Essex, Hertfordshire, Kent, Lincolnshire, Norfolk and Suffolk but others have also warned they too face reductions.
The Telegraph revealed last week that the Metropolitan Police force is braced for reductions of up to 2,300 officers out of a force of 34,000 as well as 400 civilian staff, because of a potential £450 million budget shortfall. Specialist crime-fighting units like the Flying Squad face cuts of a fifth.
It comes after the Prime Minister announced plans last week to put 13,000 additional officers, PCSOs and special constables on the beat across England and Wales. …
Ms. Cooper announced last month that the core grant for the 43 forces in England and Wales would rise by more than £260 million in 2025/26, but policing leaders claim that won’t be enough to cover an above-inflation police pay award and a growing wage bill.
The police chiefs have calculated that they would need an extra £331 million next year just to fund the latest 4.75% police pay award. They also say no allowance has been made for the rising pay of the 46,000 officers hired since 2019 when the last Government funded 20,000 new officers.
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Another candidate paper for Annals of the Bleeding Obvious!
Q1. Which is the largest city in the western hemishere?
Q2. Which is the largest city in the southern hemisphere?
Q3. Why do we not know more about this metropolis?
If I stare hard and long enough I can see the face of Jesus on the white board
Anyone else seeing that?
“How to reopen them safely”. Oh dear.
Incidentally, from what people locally tell me, lots of secondary school age kids still testing themselves, people positive, year groups sent home. So schools are not fully open.
Speaking personally, even though both myself and Mrs Dent were at home to “home school” or two primary school age chiildren, their education definitely suffered. And their behaviour suffered to. It’s been notable how much faster their learning has progressed since they’ve been back at proper school.
Our kids are young so COVID will be a minor blip in their learning history and in any case they fared much better than children stuck in a city flat with two working parents, but I feel very sad and angry about the impact the botched pandemic response has had on secondary school children, especially those sitting exams.
The evidence is immaterial. The threat of closing schools again will be used, because it is a powerful weapon, parents were in despair, to coerce the vaccination of children this autumn. It will be used along with “a new variant which is especiallydangerous to children”.
Interestingly my grandsons ‘learning’ increased during his enforced time at home and he has regressed since returning, we are now looking at home educating permanently.
Lesson no.35 for future pandemics:
Don’t let rich people destroy poor children’s lives
the destruction of the middle class means destruction of education and opporrunity too.. not only are small businesses ruined or close to being ruined but destroying the future of children is exactly what this regime wants… its all part of the same thing
Reassuring to learn that disdain and contempt for children is not just confined to the British Government