Saturday 20 June 2020

A not very cunning paln....

Yesterday, Education Secretary Gavin Williamson, announced a policy that will be considered a failure if one child in England is not at school full time in September. Anything less will be a policy failure.

Not SMART.

I am an auditor by profession now. If an auditee says they are going to do something, I would ask for an action plan, list of responsibilities, risks (and opportunities), what would happen if things went wrong. And so on and on.

When pressed by a journalist, Williamson just repeated that is what WILL happen. Slowly.

This is not a plan, but an objective.

Nothing in place to ensure it happens.

For all children to go back to school, there would have to be no social distancing, as there are not enough classes, teachers or cleaners for anything else.

This is what has happened for the last four years in Brexit and elsewhere in policy. Objectives but no plans.

We will negotiate a trade deal with the EU, though we can't agree with what that would include, what our red lines are or not care what the EU's red lines are. But when it fails it won't be our fault.

Please.

Make.

It.

Stop.

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