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But - this presumably goes some way to defining the scope for 'local': 13. It is a requirement of the Academies Act (2010) that academies (including free schools) provide places for children of all abilities the majority of whom are from the ?area?. This means that their admission arrangements must allow for over 50% of pupils to be from the area.3 3 ?Area? is not defined in law. It can be broader for boarding schools than for day schools. It can also be broader for specialised provision such as UTCs than for schools without such a specialism. Transport guidance says that ?statutory walking distance? is 3 miles for those over 8 or 2 miles for those under 8 (i.e. regardless of LA boundaries). It would therefore be reasonable ? as a starting point at least - for the ?area? to be such a radius around the school if it is not a boarding school, or a school with a particular specialisation. It could be wider if the school could justify it. and: re: "4 It is impossible to be comprehensive about this but arrangements that deliberately bypass children living next to the school or which target schools some distance away as feeders over those closer to the school are likely to be unfair. " Having a nodal point elsewhere would not mean that children 'living next to the school' were bypassed. Just that the 'area' in number 3 above might be skewed geographically differently around/ from the school - with an off=centre radius.

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Hi No name, > Yes. They're now ensuring more consistant supply > of numbers of appointments each day. More use of > Locums to cover holidays etc. Thy gave example of > a new Locum spending an average of 20mins with > patients rather than expected 10 minutes and not > finishing the surgery until 9.30pm. Which causes a > different problem of excessive late appointments. > The PPG discussed this and DMC agreed to review > how they keep people informed about this. > > The NHS England complaint I made was resolved with > an agree action plan that they have to report on > every two weeks to track progress. They appear to > be making real progress but it will take further > time to complete this. > > Hi hpsaucy, > Please do try to register again and tell me how it > goes. Apologies but can we use you as a litmus > test for this please! HI there - yes. Will give it a go in the next couple of days and let you know how I get on... HP

Jeremy Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > I've just registered... the registration process > seemed to work, so next time I need an appointment > will try online. Maybe they've sorted it then!!?? That would be good. HP

James Barber Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Last night I attended the Dulwich Medical Centre > Patient Participation Group. Other examples of > what you've described Goodliz. They have their AGM > in September. > > Goodliz, Please email the details of your > experiences so I can take up with thE DMC. They > appear to have a generic issue. They are > recruiting more admin staff to answer the phone > first thing as well as support other admin work. > > Just a couple of points before I write up my > notes. > DMC release appointments to online booking at > 7.30am every day and then phone and in person > bookings from 8am. Currently virtually no one is > booking GP appointments online. From memory 9 > people in May booked an appointment GP online. If > people have tried and found the online system > rubbish please tell me why and when so we can get > it worknig properly. I tried to register for the online system a while ago - I tried myself, my partner and my children in turn. It failed to recognise any of our details so frankly I'm not surprised that there are very few online bookings! It may have not recognised mine as apparently I have been de-registered (DMC said this was not their fault apparently). But for the others it should have worked. Somewhere way way back on an EDF thread I think other people said they found the same thing. I did tell them than I was unable to register online but there are only so many times you can tell someone there system is rubbish without anything changing before you give up. Pi** up and brewery come to mind. HP

Enjoy! HP

Sue Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > It's also very concerning that he is behaving like > this when he is with a young child. Second what Sue says - worrying that there has been a young child too. Thanks. HP Can you say roughly whereabouts you've encountered him? Peckham Rye Park?/ Dulwich???

You could get a 52 from Victoria along Kensington Gore (south side of Hyde Park) and then walk ten minutes across the park? HP

LondonMix Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > That's not true though is it? > > The Charter bid which was always based on distance > from the site (which was identified on Dulwich > Hospital) had significantly more support than the > Habs bid. > > Anyway, if the school's catchment is 1.5km it will > cover the areas you mention without a nodal point > but include more of ED and Nunhead and less of > Peckham and Camberwell. The nodal point only > changes the demographics in a significant way if > the catchment is small. > > There is no actual reason for a nodal point except > parents in East Dulwich and Nunhead want one which > isn't justification for excluding children closer > to the actual school from attending for the > benefit of those further from it. Although it could be said that the Charter bid had an 'advantage' numbers wise, being able to drum up supporters from existing local parents of Charter school kids. Is that 'fair'? Evidently some will argue 'yes' given that a free school is granted on the amount of support it shows. However you could say that the support for a free school at all here - came from those supporting either/and/or the Haberdasher's Bid or Charter bid. And part of the campaign bid if I remember rightly said it would consult on actual admissions policy afterwards(?) We're back to saying this is a school for local children - with the debate being about what 'local' should mean and about notions of 'fairness'. There evidently won't be a solution that makes everyone happy but... HP

Ah - what a nice thing to say. Thanks for posting - does look lovely! HP

Nigello Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Personally, I'm looking forward to a small area of > the pavement which won't be an obstacle course of > piled up rubbish. > Spot on! The lane is long and busy enough for a > variety of businesses. Took this photo of Rye Lane back in March early on a Sunday morning. Walked by thinking the colours were rather beautiful. 2 seconds after taking this a bus ploughed through it the other way showering me with some of the soggy debris.. And there was a chicken carcass or two in there amongst other things! HP

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > What about intenal 'market' competition (with or > without any private provision) say using say > league tables of performance and giving patients > more choice in who they use? Where you stand on > that Rah? > > I've never thought you a Marxist Rah - as a > someone more on the left you are inclined to use > 'marxist' framing of words sometimes. But you are > always up for a decent debate withoput getting > shouty. BTW I'm a nearlly a pure marxist in terms > of looking at the world we live in based on how > the means of production define it, culture, our > views etc - I think Marx's insights here are > nearly spot on. His analysis and ideology after > that are cloud cuckoo of course :) Except that Marx didn't 'do' geography which is where Dave R's points come in quite handy ...

???? Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > hpsaucey Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > rahrahrah Wrote: > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > ----- > > > indiepanda Wrote: > > > > > > -------------------------------------------------- > > > > > > ----- > > > > I am not convinced anyone wants to pay more > > tax, > > > so either > > > > we make deep spending cuts elsewhere, or > get > > a > > > bit > > > > smarter about how we fund health. > > > > > > I would happily pay more tax to ensure that > the > > > health service stays free at the point of > use. > > > > You Gov survey a year ago and today say most > > willing ot pay more for NHS. Nearly half of > those > > polled willing to pay more national insurance > (not > > income tax) to spend on the NHS. I think there > is > > a heightened feel for the 'specialness' of the > NHS > > at the minute, given that most people don't > trust > > the tories as far as they can throw them with > > preseving it (again check out You Gov surveys). > > They'll savage it and tear it to shreds faster > > than a fox hound on a hunt. > > > > HP > > *sighs* > > I don't think it's that special. I don't thin the > Tories are planning to destroy it - in reality > they've pledged more spending. I think it needs > reform but with propaganda type tosh spouted by > Labour and the unions and widely accepted ( as > your post shows) even getting an adult debate is > nigh on impossible. Ps National Insurance is tax > in all but name and how did I You GOv get on in > pre-election polling? :[ sighs .... Unless anyone commenting is under 16/18 then I guess this is by definition an 'adult debate'... Re: You gov - election voting habits seems to be a bit of an exception and its more reliable than anecdotal evidence. Re: my colourful rhetoric - yes over the top perhaps and I'm sorry it evidently pained ???? but the tories will go as far along the privatisation route they feel able to push, until the general public perhaps find they can't stomach it anymore. I am, personally, ideologically opposed to this. I doubt anyone would deny there are ways to save money within the NHS - bulk purchasing ... reductions in contract staff bills etc. Second what rahrahrah said... HP

rahrahrah Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > indiepanda Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I am not convinced anyone wants to pay more tax, > so either > > we make deep spending cuts elsewhere, or get a > bit > > smarter about how we fund health. > > I would happily pay more tax to ensure that the > health service stays free at the point of use. You Gov survey a year ago and today say most willing ot pay more for NHS. Nearly half of those polled willing to pay more national insurance (not income tax) to spend on the NHS. I think there is a heightened feel for the 'specialness' of the NHS at the minute, given that most people don't trust the tories as far as they can throw them with preseving it (again check out You Gov surveys). They'll savage it and tear it to shreds faster than a fox hound on a hunt. HP

numbers Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Dualit kettle* going strong for over 8 years now. > However, I will confess that I also have a lovely > stove top kettle specially for boiling water for > tea. (leaves, not bags, I'll have you know). So > that probably skews my results. > > I think paying a fair amount of dosh for stuff in > a colour or style that you no longer like will > guarantee it lasts forever! > > > *Toaster as good as new also. Yep - definitely the way to go! Got a dualit toaster about 8 years ago after two sh** cheapo ones that lasted about 6 months each. Gone off the colour of this toaster but boy its got staying power .... as a curator I get offered lots of old appliances that kept going nicely for decades. New naff ones that are so sh** they've almost got deliberatly built in obsolescence really, really p' me off....what a waste of resources - shouldn't be allowed. HP

Swit and bold Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Out line anyone drinking smoking in a kids play > ground is setting a bad example and should be > informed to stop. 'Lol' - 'informed to stop' by whom? What next - citizen's arrest? Christ on a bike - think everyone needs to get a grip. Fe fi fo fum ... perhaps I smell trolling going on????

dimjim79 Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Happy Hour at Goose Green playground. 3-5pm every > Saturday. Children welcome. Wahey - I'll be there. Escorting 2 feral kids and armed with a big bottle of red-label Thunderbird and a straw. There - that should make you lightweights with the odd small bottle of beer feel less guilty!

Brilliant news. Best wishes to the family ...

Another question - is it likely to happen with the Boys school too?

One note of caution. Just remember that schools can change quickly although most around there are pretty OK....

Suggest that you change 'wives'. We're not all married.... or did you just want married couples?

Not quite summer holiday but family pottery at the Thomas Calton Centre - https://www.southwark.gov.uk/downloads/download/2481/southwark_council_adult_learning_service 5 sessions on a Monday after school for a Fiver. Next run starts in June. Always mean to take my kids but clashes with work sadly... They also do term-time art/craft ones too and some half-term crafty sessions coming up next week... HP

Search for east Dulwich food coop on the forum and email claire-bear. There's a suma order going in every few weeks to buy at bulk trade prices ... Hp

aquarius moon Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Life imprisonment is the best punishment for the > worst offenders. Not 15 years, life. > > I don't think I could ever approve of the death > penalty. Yep - if life actually meant life I'm sure the death penalty would have less 'appeal' for some folk. [sorry - off topic...]

Louisa Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > Labour need to stop Union influence. For those of > us old enough to remember the 70s, it was a pretty > @&?# time to be around. That generation has > broadly not forgiven Labour, and they sway > elections. Labour only wins on the centre ground, > like under Blair and the unions forced Miliband on > the party, when his brother was clearly the better > choice. As much as a swing to the left would be > great for core vote, that don't play well in > middle England. I would love Andy Burnham as > leader but I fear he would isolate the south, just > as Chukka would isolate the core vote IMO. They > need someone who cuts through with everyone, > another Blair. > > Louisa. Jesus Christ - they need another Blair like a kick in the teeth!

Search under lido on the forum. There's another thread.