BRFR Cake Stop 'breaking news' miscellany

[Pross]

A sobering report on options for Skegness as sea levels rise and storms become more violent

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cm2p0epyll2o



I'm not sure that Skegnessians would appreciate the humour here, a parody of an old tourist poster that proclaimed "Skegness is SO bracing!"

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Having the misfortune of spending far too much time there for work this sounds like it should be in the good news thread.

 

[briantrumpet]

Having the misfortune of spending far too much time there for work this sounds like it should be in the good news thread.

Probably just as well NCAP hasn't got a member called Skegness Lad. Though, I suppose, they might agree with you.

 

[icowden]

No. Let's not take rapists round schools to talk to children.

Quite right. No point trying to stop more children become rapists, addicts or whatever.

Luckily for you some people have more sense:

School talks by ex-offenders and youth justice services aim to deter young people from crime by sharing the real-life consequences of incarceration. These preventive, interactive workshops are designed to break down stereotypes, challenge negative peer pressure, and empower students to make positive, informed choices. [1, 2, 3]
Leading UK organizations and charities facilitate these impactful programs for schools:

• Prison Me No Way (PMNW): Operating the No Way Trust, this national charity delivers immersive "Your Choice Days" featuring ex-offenders, mock prison cells, and educational workshops covering knife crime, substance abuse, and the justice system.
• St Giles Trust (SOS+ Service): This service uses trained individuals with lived experience of the criminal justice system to debunk myths around gangs, county lines, and weapons, while equipping students with practical resilience strategies.
• The CELLS Project: Based in Merseyside, a team of ex-offenders and crime victims delivers powerful behavioural awareness presentations in schools to show pupils the ripple effects of crime.
• Project ReMAKE: This London-based educational outreach initiative connects sixth form and university students with graduates of their program for powerful, firsthand storytelling and debate. [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

How to Book a Talk for Your School:
Talks can generally be tailored to fit into PSHE (Personal, Social, Health and Economic) curriculums or Criminology/Psychology units. To arrange an appearance or an entire crime-awareness day, you can reach out directly to the outreach teams via the PMNW Booking, the St Giles Trust Preventative Schools Work, or the CELLS Project Enquiries pages

 

[First Aspect]

We used to get the police come to the school to talk about trespassing on the railways and to give us some scary real life stories.

To this day I still think the kid who got all those burns had it coming to them....

 

[briantrumpet]

I know we've been here before (at least over on Cake Stop), but this seems Quite A Lot.

 

[First Aspect]

I know we've been here before (at least over on Cake Stop), but this seems Quite A Lot.

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As always you need to show working for claims like this.

 

[briantrumpet]

As always you need to show working for claims like this.

You'll have to ask the Financial Times, who give no more details.

https://archive.ph/eGfO1

 

[briantrumpet]

If you trust Gemini, a little more detail here:

And here's the NAO bit:

 

[PurplePenguin]

If you trust Gemini, a little more detail here:

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And here's the NAO bit:

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is the scandal that the private sector is providing places for a profit or that the public sector is failing to provide places?

 

[briantrumpet]

is the scandal that the private sector is providing places for a profit or that the public sector is failing to provide places?

I think you might have missed out the word "excessive".

 

[First Aspect]

Private equity. They are a cancer. I would love to understand the effect that sector is having on tax and inflation as a whole.

It is also a consequence of successive government and councils squeezing direct funding to make savings in one area, costs ballooning in another, forcing further savings in the first area. My wife once presented her local council with some really basic number on this, simply cost to recruit and pay for council foster care, versus the costs incurred for private sector placements to meet statutory requirements where council placements are unavailable.

She got a positive reaction from the numpty level councillors, but over the next year or two the same idiots declined payment increases to foster carers to save costs, and they carried on losing carers to the better paying private sector. This meant the council was paying for their training, approval and background checks, then paying a private company more to benefit from that. (Not that a lot of these enterprises are "not for profit" but the amount of money that can be skimmed off that doesn't count as profit makes that distinction meaningless.)

It is compound idiocy from people who are incapable of learning, but who spend our money.

 

[briantrumpet]

Private equity. They are a cancer. I would love to understand the effect that sector is having on tax and inflation as a whole.

It is also a consequence of successive government and councils squeezing direct funding to make savings in one area, costs ballooning in another, forcing further savings in the first area. My wife once presented her local council with some really basic number on this, simply cost to recruit and pay for council foster care, versus the costs incurred for private sector placements to meet statutory requirements where council placements are unavailable.

She got a positive reaction from the numpty level councillors, but over the next year or two the same idiots declined payment increases to foster carers to save costs, and they carried on losing carers to the better paying private sector. This meant the council was paying for their training, approval and background checks, then paying a private company more to benefit from that. (Not that a lot of these enterprises are "not for profit" but the amount of money that can be skimmed off that doesn't count as profit makes that distinction meaningless.)

It is compound idiocy from people who are incapable of learning, but who spend our money.

It's PE recognising a statutorily mandated duty with high entry costs for new players, monopolising the sector and saddling it with high borrowing costs, then ballooning the profit margin once there's no effective competition.

 

[Dorset Boy]

As a comparison, care for a dementia patient in a private residential care home is about £85-90,000 pa.
£320,000 for a kid is ludicrous.

 

[icowden]

As a comparison, care for a dementia patient in a private residential care home is about £85-90,000 pa.
£320,000 for a kid is ludicrous.

Even when you take out the £80k profit, it's much more expensive.

 

[Pross]

Private equity. They are a cancer. I would love to understand the effect that sector is having on tax and inflation as a whole.

It is also a consequence of successive government and councils squeezing direct funding to make savings in one area, costs ballooning in another, forcing further savings in the first area. My wife once presented her local council with some really basic number on this, simply cost to recruit and pay for council foster care, versus the costs incurred for private sector placements to meet statutory requirements where council placements are unavailable.

She got a positive reaction from the numpty level councillors, but over the next year or two the same idiots declined payment increases to foster carers to save costs, and they carried on losing carers to the better paying private sector. This meant the council was paying for their training, approval and background checks, then paying a private company more to benefit from that. (Not that a lot of these enterprises are "not for profit" but the amount of money that can be skimmed off that doesn't count as profit makes that distinction meaningless.)

It is compound idiocy from people who are incapable of learning, but who spend our money.

See also social care