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#dramaqueen #mother #teacher #badsinger #epicdancer #winelover

[John Cleese @JohnCleese]

I can hardly believe that GB News will give this proven serial liar his own programme

[bel @080Belle]

@MartinHibbert recovering from knee surgery gave me a huge respect for people with physical disabilities. The majority of people seem quite ignorant to the issues faced and are often shockingly rude. I take my hat off to people who have to deal with that behaviour daily x

[Simon Smith @smithsmm]

Can we be honest, if the government want to make a difference to disadvantaged pupils results they really need to tackle disadvantage and poverty.

[Secret Headteacher @secretHT1]

If there’s one thing that technology has stolen from education, it’s the joy on the faces of the little ones when you ask them to go on the greatest of all adventures.

Taking the register back to the office.

[Fixing Education @FixingEducation]

Why Are Teachers So Tired All The Time? 😴

Research shows we make about 1,500 decisions a day! The constant requirement to ‘be on’ becomes DRAINING to our brains and bodies. It is called ‘Decision Fatigue’.

This explains a lot!

[bel @080Belle]

@DrAmirKhanGP took your advice and bought my first bottle of apple cider vinegar. Looking forward to reaping the health benefits ☺️

[bel @080Belle]

@SwailesRuth @Ofstednews Staff working all this weekend in panic and anxiety even though they’re all great as we had call on Friday. And we had RE inspection last week 2 inspections in same term

[Daniel Kebede @DanielKebedeNEU]

Today's news:
- 700,000 pupils in schools at risk of collapse. Death/Injury likely.
- Nurses report children so hungry they're being hospitalised.

Children aren't suffering because there are teacher strikes. There are teacher strikes because children are suffering.

[Tes magazine @tes]

The government has a choice: carry on as we are with pupils' life chances declining or invest in school support to help those still impacted by the pandemic, says @annelongfield of @coyl2022
https://t.co/PnJuy8sctG

[@MsSmaraw @MsSmaraw]

if your child goes to a school that offers residentials, think for a second how much stress, worry and responsibility it is to take away other people’s children. Be Kind. It’s a TREMENDOUS amount of work. #2 is off to France. #3 is off to Kent. #thankateacher #locoparentis

[Kevin Courtney @cyclingkev]

Wow! 40,000 teacher left teaching last year! That’s a huge 9% of all teachers. And 90% of those were pre-retirement. This is astonishing, a crisis.
What is Gillian Keegan doing about it?
#DoYourJobGill

[Martin Lewis @MartinSLewis]

They can't say they weren't warned!
Last Autumn, I raised an alarm about a coming potential mortgage ticking time bomb with millions facing huge bill-shock as their fixes end.
So much so the Chancellor called a mortgage summit; sadly it was just a missed opportunity talking shop...

I want to briefly bash out some thoughts on this.

The summit in December was attended by the Chancellor, FCA chair, the bosses of UK's biggest banks and me (I'd asked for consumer charities & mortgage experts to attend too but that wasn't agreed - tho my team and I worked hard talking to charities and mortgage brokers before to collate ideas).

My reason for suggesting the Chancellor took action was simple. We needed to prepare in case it rates rocketed - waiting for it to happen would be too late. Yet now, the time bomb has exploded, and we're scrambling about what to do.

One of the big concerns I raised was that banks were increasing their margins - basically the gap between what lenders are charged and savers paid. That should (and still should) be tightened and political pressure needs applying to ensure either better mortgages or better savings or best, both.

Other practical suggestions were not about radical change, but easy to agree forbearance and help measures to get people over the hump while they readjusted their finances.

A range of methods such as payment holidays, payment reductions, lengthening the mortgage term were discussed, plus proactive communication with borrowers who look like they may be struggling and independent solid guidance about what people's options were if they were struggling.

There were lots of nods from the bankers and many 'we do that alreadies', and indeed some extra customer communications did come out on the back.

Yet real changes met push back - sometimes the banks both from banks and the FCA. For example

1. Any help options should be easily reversible on request. Eg if you extend your term, to reduce payments, when things improve you should have an automatic right to reduce the term.

Knowing there is a reversibility option gets rid of a barrier to action - without reversibility people are scared to be locked into a longer mortgage (which means more interest).

2. It should have no or minimal impact on people's credit scores (as it did in the pandemic). Again negative credit file impact is a big barrier to action
- as it leaves people reticent to make a decision, which can lead to snowballing problems.

None of the suggestions have seen any real fruition. The attention faded, especially when rates didn't rise as sharply as first expected.

Though we are now in exactly the situation that the whole meeting was meant to prepare for. Now I read about proposed 'forbearance' measures being looked at, it does feel as a shame the stable door is already closing...

[NASUWT @NASUWT]

They are burying their heads in the sand over the crisis in our schools.

By voting in our ballot you can send them a message they can't ignore.

#betterdealforteachers

[National Education Union @NEUnion]

Stefan: "I work in a school that is having to make people redundant just to be able to afford a teacher in each classroom. Education needs Government funding."

We urge you to again vote to win a fully funded, above-inflation pay rise. #PayUpNow #SaveOurSchools

[Abigail Gibson @ASGIB]

@MichaelRosenYes @WandaWyporska Bananarama sang “I’m guilty, guilty as a cup of tea” according to my friend

[Lewis Fogarty @lewis_fogarty]

A Deputy Head of a Primary school said to me today:

The #earlyyears is the most important stage of #primaryeducation. If you get it wrong, you spend the next 6 years trying to put it right. If you get it right, you can spend the next 6 years building on it.

Couldn't agree more

[bel @080Belle]

@ThomasCookUK I’ve contacted customer service chat. What a joke. Youve messed up my holiday that I have paid for in full. No apology and you will let me know next week if youve resolved your mistake! What a joke!!

[bel @080Belle]

@clarins_uk Thankyou. Message sent.

[bel @080Belle]

@clarins_uk hoping you will reply as 2 requests to customer service and nothing 🤷🏼‍♀️ I placed an order in April and have no update and would like to know if this order is going to be sent to me? Thanks