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Here in the east, a new report on the people premium, not all is | 0:01:23 | 0:01:33 | |
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Apology for the loss of subtitles for 1719 seconds | 0:01:33 | 0:30:12 | |
being spent directly. The Swedish That afternoon, our guest is they | 0:30:12 | 0:30:20 | |
that roughly MP, and the chair of the Cambridge Labour Party. Coming | 0:30:20 | 0:30:25 | |
up, the Pupil Premium. A new report by one of our MPs looks into what | 0:30:25 | 0:30:29 | |
it is actually being spent on, but we can reveal at least some head | 0:30:29 | 0:30:35 | |
teachers are using it to plug gaps in funding elsewhere. First, the | 0:30:35 | 0:30:40 | |
unemployment figures. Another increase in our region. Up by 3,000 | 0:30:40 | 0:30:44 | |
from the previous quarter. Told a number of people I'd have work in | 0:30:44 | 0:30:51 | |
our region is 213,000. -- iota of work. David, at long-term youth | 0:30:51 | 0:31:01 | |
unemployment doubled in the region. It is an appalling figure, we need | 0:31:01 | 0:31:03 | |
it Cup National Insurance on employers, and they will employ | 0:31:03 | 0:31:10 | |
more people. Inevitable that the Government should find itself in | 0:31:10 | 0:31:14 | |
this difficulty because of what it was handed by the Labour government. | 0:31:14 | 0:31:19 | |
I do not think so, what we need to do now is paid a tax back on the | 0:31:19 | 0:31:27 | |
bankers. That would save that generation. The Swedish | 0:31:27 | 0:31:31 | |
unemployment rate is lower than ours, but what do we think about | 0:31:31 | 0:31:37 | |
their schools? Michael Gove, the education secretary, thinks a great | 0:31:37 | 0:31:44 | |
deal. It was inspired by a visit to Sweden. Three schools are set up by | 0:31:44 | 0:31:53 | |
parents, charities are businesses. A new won in Suffolk will be run by | 0:31:53 | 0:32:03 | |
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a Swedish company. Can a foreign profit-making firms do a good job? | 0:32:03 | 0:32:11 | |
Do you like Sweden? This is the school that impressed Michael Gove | 0:32:11 | 0:32:20 | |
so much he decided to introduce free schools into Britain. It is in | 0:32:20 | 0:32:24 | |
a suburb of Stockholm. It teaches local students in English and | 0:32:24 | 0:32:34 | |
Swedish. The same situation. It is run by a company which owns 17 free | 0:32:34 | 0:32:40 | |
schools across Sweden. This one is so popular, it has no spaces until | 0:32:40 | 0:32:50 | |
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2021. We have happy children and happy children make happy parents. | 0:32:51 | 0:33:00 | |
There are playrooms, a councillor, and healthy food. Students to go to | 0:33:00 | 0:33:04 | |
the school's score some of the highest marks in Sweden. There is a | 0:33:04 | 0:33:08 | |
heavy emphasis on discipline and good manners. The company is run by | 0:33:08 | 0:33:14 | |
a former teacher from Burnley. strive to teach young individuals, | 0:33:14 | 0:33:20 | |
the subject are important, but we develop the all-round individual. | 0:33:20 | 0:33:25 | |
Three schools are free to attend. The government pays so much per | 0:33:25 | 0:33:35 | |
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pupil. -- free schools. What concerns some people is the role of | 0:33:35 | 0:33:39 | |
profit-making companies like this one they can only make money by | 0:33:39 | 0:33:47 | |
cutting costs. The student to teacher ratio is the highest. It | 0:33:47 | 0:33:54 | |
means they do not hire as many teachers. They also hire less | 0:33:54 | 0:34:00 | |
experienced teachers and none certified want. -- and certified | 0:34:00 | 0:34:05 | |
teachers. They denied this claim, and they do seem to have young | 0:34:05 | 0:34:10 | |
teachers, but the company says the results and the fact it has long | 0:34:10 | 0:34:15 | |
waiting lists Stewart provides a good service. Our focus is top | 0:34:15 | 0:34:20 | |
quality education, and how do we achieve that? It would be cutting | 0:34:20 | 0:34:26 | |
off our nose to spite her face if we did not ensure there was quality. | 0:34:26 | 0:34:29 | |
But you are getting exactly the same amount of money as every other | 0:34:29 | 0:34:37 | |
school get sport taking on a pupil, so where is the money made? Is it | 0:34:37 | 0:34:42 | |
because you are good at managing your costs? That is one aspect. | 0:34:42 | 0:34:47 | |
They will charge a management fee for running the school. It was set | 0:34:47 | 0:34:52 | |
up by local parents who did not one Brandon's only school to close. | 0:34:52 | 0:34:56 | |
This policy has allowed a school to stay in Brandon all the way up to | 0:34:56 | 0:35:03 | |
the age of 16, and also be a crucial part of the local community. | 0:35:03 | 0:35:07 | |
There is only a handful of these schools in the region. The | 0:35:07 | 0:35:17 | |
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government wants many more. It will be no reduction in pupils at other | 0:35:17 | 0:35:20 | |
perfectly good schools, and patients should be alarmed at the | 0:35:20 | 0:35:25 | |
way money is being wasted on this philosophy. There are no more than | 0:35:26 | 0:35:30 | |
700 of these schools in Sweden, teaching 96,000 students. Some | 0:35:30 | 0:35:34 | |
critics question whether they make that much difference, and there are | 0:35:34 | 0:35:37 | |
concerns they lead to greater segregation of communities. There | 0:35:37 | 0:35:47 | |
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is no escaping the fact they are very popular. Do the Swedish | 0:35:49 | 0:35:57 | |
schools actually work? Have the improved results? You can visit | 0:35:57 | 0:36:01 | |
three schools in Sweden and get a very positive impression, but I | 0:36:01 | 0:36:07 | |
have been researching the schools and it is not a rosy picture | 0:36:07 | 0:36:15 | |
entirely. In terms of attainment levels, segregation, and cost, it | 0:36:15 | 0:36:25 | |
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does not look that promising. they actually cheaper? -- will they | 0:36:25 | 0:36:31 | |
be? They have actually increased the cost, not reduce it. That is | 0:36:31 | 0:36:36 | |
because of bureaucracy and surplus of school places. In more general | 0:36:36 | 0:36:42 | |
terms, are there are significant differences with the Swedish system | 0:36:42 | 0:36:50 | |
of education and our system of education? Yes. If you look at the | 0:36:50 | 0:36:54 | |
state school system it is organised on a comprehensive principle as | 0:36:54 | 0:36:59 | |
opposed to the school system in England. You could not call a | 0:36:59 | 0:37:03 | |
comprehensive any more, it has become more divided. This is not | 0:37:03 | 0:37:06 | |
the case in Sweden, it is still a comprehensive school system you | 0:37:06 | 0:37:11 | |
have there. It is changing, maybe, because of the increase of three | 0:37:11 | 0:37:17 | |
schools, but they are still relatively small in number. -- free | 0:37:17 | 0:37:26 | |
schools. They do provide choice. People do not like the school | 0:37:26 | 0:37:32 | |
reorganisation in Suffolk. We are seeing waiting lists all over the | 0:37:32 | 0:37:36 | |
country. We're also seeing surplus places. That is one question I | 0:37:36 | 0:37:41 | |
would put back to the expert, what is the effect on the other schools | 0:37:41 | 0:37:46 | |
in my area? I worry it damages the other schools. What is your | 0:37:46 | 0:37:52 | |
experience of that? There has been an expectation that competition | 0:37:52 | 0:37:55 | |
between a school will be too high attainment levels, and that has not | 0:37:56 | 0:38:00 | |
really been the case. You have seen increased attainment level on a | 0:38:00 | 0:38:04 | |
moderate level at lower secondary level. That is even now completely | 0:38:04 | 0:38:13 | |
in the opposite direction. Should private companies be allowed to | 0:38:13 | 0:38:18 | |
profit at the expense of the taxpayer? If they can cut costs and | 0:38:18 | 0:38:24 | |
deliver higher standards that should not matter. It will still be | 0:38:24 | 0:38:29 | |
free at a point of use. This is government money funding the school, | 0:38:29 | 0:38:37 | |
and the company could be making a profit from that. But there will | 0:38:37 | 0:38:46 | |
not be any charge to parents. early days, in my region parents | 0:38:46 | 0:38:52 | |
think it is a free ticket to set up a school. There is a huge amount of | 0:38:52 | 0:38:56 | |
bureaucracy which I think is putting some of, but it is also the | 0:38:56 | 0:39:01 | |
case that it is not proven. If you have a group of parents now that | 0:39:01 | 0:39:06 | |
are happy to Machin and help run the school, will they be doing that | 0:39:06 | 0:39:13 | |
in 10 years' time when their children have left? There is a | 0:39:13 | 0:39:16 | |
question mark about how sustainable some of these will be. It is | 0:39:16 | 0:39:21 | |
certainly worth trying. I do not agree with the comparative analysis, | 0:39:21 | 0:39:26 | |
we have a different system as the expert pointed out, we have | 0:39:26 | 0:39:29 | |
streaming and setting within comprehensives, and I am not sure | 0:39:29 | 0:39:35 | |
the comparison is terribly helpful. You mentioned in passing the word | 0:39:35 | 0:39:40 | |
segregation, what do you feel the impact has been? In Sweden, the | 0:39:40 | 0:39:44 | |
schools have certainly lead to social segregation of the last 10 | 0:39:44 | 0:39:53 | |
years. That is mainly due to the fact that free schools are attended | 0:39:53 | 0:40:00 | |
by middle-class parents. This is a phenomenon you also see in England. | 0:40:00 | 0:40:04 | |
That would not happen in rural areas, we would not see that kind | 0:40:04 | 0:40:09 | |
of segregation. A new bill because people are prepared to travel. The | 0:40:09 | 0:40:13 | |
other issue is the schools can imply teachers with virtually no | 0:40:13 | 0:40:23 | |
qualifications. That is a very big worry. The question will be asked | 0:40:23 | 0:40:29 | |
whether they actually raise standards. Thank you very much. | 0:40:29 | 0:40:37 | |
From one of the Conservative key ideas on education to the Lib Dems, | 0:40:37 | 0:40:41 | |
they have just published an you report on funding. Every school | 0:40:41 | 0:40:46 | |
receives more money for any pupil entitled to free school meals, and | 0:40:46 | 0:40:51 | |
an extra �2.5 billion is being added to the budget to fund it. We | 0:40:51 | 0:40:55 | |
have discovered it is being spent in a variety of ways, not all | 0:40:55 | 0:40:59 | |
supporting the pupils it is intended for. At this school in | 0:40:59 | 0:41:05 | |
Corby it is not a shepherd's pie on the menu. Almost a quarter are not | 0:41:05 | 0:41:08 | |
just served a free school meal, they also get an additional helping | 0:41:08 | 0:41:14 | |
of Pupil Premium, �480 of money funding -- government funding per | 0:41:14 | 0:41:21 | |
child this year. The government wants to close the gap in academic | 0:41:21 | 0:41:28 | |
performance between lower and higher income families. The school | 0:41:28 | 0:41:34 | |
is using the money across the board. We will use it for the benefit of a | 0:41:34 | 0:41:38 | |
wider clientele than those students on free school meals, because that | 0:41:38 | 0:41:46 | |
is a blunt instrument. It is not a perfect measure of the students | 0:41:46 | 0:41:51 | |
that might need help. The head teacher at spends a lot of time | 0:41:51 | 0:41:55 | |
doing administration, though he would prefer doing teaching. At the | 0:41:55 | 0:42:00 | |
moment I cannot balance the books. This funding disappears into a | 0:42:00 | 0:42:06 | |
great black hole. But it is funding that is useful. It is funding that | 0:42:06 | 0:42:13 | |
perhaps I had not expected. Department of Education says a free | 0:42:13 | 0:42:23 | |
school meal pupil has less than 33 % chance of reaching Level 2 in | 0:42:23 | 0:42:32 | |
reading and maths. At high school, they have a chance of achieving | 0:42:32 | 0:42:38 | |
less GCSEs. They are also less likely to study at university. That | 0:42:38 | 0:42:44 | |
is why the coalition government introduce Pupil Premium. It was a | 0:42:44 | 0:42:51 | |
key commitment in the Lib Dem manifesto. It was designed to give | 0:42:51 | 0:42:56 | |
them extra resources. Norman Lamb has just carried out his own | 0:42:56 | 0:42:59 | |
research to check where schools are spending the money. He wants to | 0:42:59 | 0:43:04 | |
ensure it is not used elsewhere. am seeing already some really good | 0:43:04 | 0:43:08 | |
practice in local schools, interestingly, a head teacher from | 0:43:08 | 0:43:13 | |
Cromer said this is the first time disadvantaged kids in rural areas | 0:43:13 | 0:43:19 | |
have been recognised by government. That enables them to do things like | 0:43:19 | 0:43:29 | |
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imply extra class loomed -- employ extra classroom assistants. | 0:43:30 | 0:43:40 | |
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Pupil Premium partly pays for one- The National Union of Teachers | 0:43:44 | 0:43:48 | |
welcomed the concept of Pupil Premium, but is not convinced it | 0:43:48 | 0:43:54 | |
will address the needs of specific skills. Providing best guess at | 0:43:54 | 0:43:58 | |
cash sum to anyone who falls into the category of free school meals, | 0:43:58 | 0:44:03 | |
and we believe that is too general and inflexible to target money | 0:44:03 | 0:44:09 | |
directly. The Department of Education says poverty is the | 0:44:09 | 0:44:19 | |
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single most important factor in Predicting a child's future. | 0:44:25 | 0:44:30 | |
heard in that report that the Pupil Premium is welcome. Let me correct | 0:44:30 | 0:44:34 | |
some inaccuracies, a new introduction he said to 0.5 billion | 0:44:34 | 0:44:38 | |
extra was spent. It is not extra money, it was taken from other | 0:44:38 | 0:44:48 | |
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parts of the education budget. -- �2.5bn. What we're seeing from your | 0:44:48 | 0:44:51 | |
report is head teachers are using it to cover up the cuts that are | 0:44:51 | 0:44:57 | |
being made to their board of -- to their budget. The school down the | 0:44:57 | 0:45:00 | |
road, he tells me they are no better off even though they have | 0:45:00 | 0:45:09 | |
the highest level of pupils on free school meals in the county. This | 0:45:09 | 0:45:13 | |
should be extra money to focus on supporting these pupils, and as we | 0:45:13 | 0:45:16 | |
heard from some of the people in that report, it is not being used | 0:45:16 | 0:45:25 | |
for that. There will be more money going to the poor pupils. It is for | 0:45:25 | 0:45:28 | |
head teachers to decide, if they have a large number of pupils on | 0:45:28 | 0:45:32 | |
free school meals, for them to make sure the money goes to help those | 0:45:32 | 0:45:37 | |
individuals, what depresses me about this debate is we have done | 0:45:37 | 0:45:42 | |
something good here, put more money on the heads of pupils who are | 0:45:42 | 0:45:47 | |
disadvantaged, who could disagree with that? Let head teachers make | 0:45:47 | 0:45:54 | |
that happen for those children with the extra resources. Should it be | 0:45:54 | 0:46:01 | |
better monitored. --? He heard it had been used to build a bike shed, | 0:46:01 | 0:46:09 | |
some of the money. I agree but government ministers cannot be | 0:46:09 | 0:46:12 | |
responsible for decisions that should be decentralised to a good | 0:46:12 | 0:46:18 | |
head teacher. If they are making pictures are bike sheds, it is up | 0:46:18 | 0:46:24 | |
to the school to ask those questions. Who can dispute the | 0:46:24 | 0:46:27 | |
policy of putting more money into budgets which have large numbers of | 0:46:27 | 0:46:34 | |
free school -- disadvantaged pupils? What about the principle of | 0:46:34 | 0:46:38 | |
basing it on the number of pupils getting free school meals? I have | 0:46:38 | 0:46:42 | |
nothing against redistributing resources to poor people. All the | 0:46:42 | 0:46:46 | |
evidence is money is being distributed away from the needs of | 0:46:46 | 0:46:53 | |
the poor. The people in Basingstoke are getting �6 per head extra, the | 0:46:53 | 0:46:59 | |
people Liverpool �200 less. The Pupil Premium is merely eight �2 | 0:46:59 | 0:47:07 | |
billion out of �50 billion. It is a drop in the ocean. Do you think it | 0:47:07 | 0:47:12 | |
is a good idea? I have nothing against | 0:47:12 | 0:47:20 | |
redistribution, but this is not necessarily the best measure. | 0:47:20 | 0:47:24 | |
to our weekly round-up. This week, green measures take a back seat, | 0:47:24 | 0:47:34 | |
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Natural England's plans for a new conservation area as along the | 0:47:40 | 0:47:44 | |
Norfolk coast where people would be banned have not gone down well. | 0:47:44 | 0:47:47 | |
There is not a case for anything additional, and we should not be | 0:47:47 | 0:47:53 | |
interfering with activities that have gone on for hundreds of years. | 0:47:53 | 0:47:57 | |
Despite the National Trust decrying large wind turbines as a menace, | 0:47:58 | 0:48:04 | |
investors are still in search of cheaper ways to keep the lights on. | 0:48:04 | 0:48:07 | |
Southend airport hopes to increase its carbon footprint as it opens | 0:48:07 | 0:48:12 | |
its doors to the new terminal. The big freeze was on author council's | 0:48:12 | 0:48:19 | |
mind as it signed up to a zero % rise on council tax. Happy ending | 0:48:19 | 0:48:23 | |
for this man who fell through thin ice on this forever. He rescued his | 0:48:23 | 0:48:30 | |
dog. Adrenalin kicks in and you just think this is a precious | 0:48:30 | 0:48:40 | |
family member. We could not let him die. Not to be recommended. What | 0:48:40 | 0:48:44 | |
about wind farms? We are short of the target we hope to achieve by | 0:48:44 | 0:48:52 | |
2020. The best thing would be to insulate our homes better, which is | 0:48:52 | 0:48:56 | |
why it is crazy that scheme is being axed. People do not wind | 0:48:56 | 0:49:03 | |
farms -- do not want wind farms. That is why people wrote to the | 0:49:03 | 0:49:07 | |
Prime Minister saying be huge amount of subsidy put into wind | 0:49:07 | 0:49:13 | |
farms, which are not terribly effective, should be switched to | 0:49:13 | 0:49:17 | |
more reliable forms of renewable energy, so there was a many | 0:49:17 | 0:49:26 | |
rebellion. Many individuals in the region agree it is the wrong kind | 0:49:26 | 0:49:32 | |
of renewable energy, it is also deeply unpopular and does not work. | 0:49:32 | 0:49:38 | |
What about offshore wind farms? strongly support them. We have got | 0:49:38 | 0:49:44 | |
no choice, we need to go for renewables, if we do not have that, | 0:49:44 | 0:49:50 |