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If you are worried about
Benefit Fraud £0.5bn but not Government Corruption £219bn.
Or immigration £2bn but not Tax Havens £150bn.
Or Junior Doctors pay rises £1.3bn but not Bankers tax cuts £7.3bn.
You are buying their lies.
The crisis in school attendance is rightly being talked about in public discourse.
However, laying the blame at the door of parents really is letting this government off the hook.
The reasons children are absent can be complex - poverty, SEND, mental health distress, etc.
Since the pandemic, anxiety has doubled amongst our young people.
Sir Kevan Collins put together a £15bn covid recovery programme for education, which the government completely failed to implement.
They've cut CAMHs services to the bone, and school funding has been decimated, meaning schools can't fund much needed pastoral support.
But also on this government's watch we have seen a narrowing of the curriculum - the things that make school enjoyable (sport, drama, the arts, music, creativity) increasingly becoming pursuits only for those who attend fee paying schools.
Due to school accountability measures (ofsted), the high stakes nature of exams - the school environment has become increasingly like a pressure cooker.
As a teacher, I've never met a parent without aspiration for their child, just without the tools to meet them.
The crisis in school attendance is a government made crisis down to their failure to invest in our children.
Couldn't continue to justify to staff that the hard work we put in to our children, school, community would continue to be judged by ever changing expectations and one persons opinion. We work on for the children and families but the threat of Ofsted makes this almost intolerable