Gwadien
Uneducated Northern Cretin
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Wait, they get the teachers to organise building maintenance work? What a great idea. We should get NHS nurses to order plumbing supplies and civil servants to do a bit of painting and decorating while we're at it.
As for this story, looks like standard slum landlord tactics; abuse any grants you can get and do a cheapo repair job; there's scandals like that over here about shoddy flats built with non-existent fire-safety all the time. It doesn't actually matter if they were milking the system because they couldn't afford glue sticks; you don't avoid fire safety work, ever, and even if grants were being redeployed for noble purposes (which to be honest I really doubt) its still fraud.
I'm very cynical about charities in general tbh. Tax free status is a natural magnet for unscrupulous behaviour. Its like the way Americans always brag that they spend more money on charity than anyone else, well yes, but only because their churches are charities and they spend their congregation's contributions on stupid mega-churches to make yet more money. Spending money on charity isn't necessarily a synonym for doing something good. Yes I know there are great and noble charities out there, but an awful lot aren't.
Well, head teachers. lots of academies don't have financial directors/advisers because they can't afford them meaning that construction firms are taking schools for a ride more than ever before.
The best part about academies is that if you perform well you get more funding. I never really understood that logic.