05/21/2009: "labour - employment"

i work one hour a day, 5 days a week. I cover when staff are absent, I am CRB checked (which took 3 months to get)
I have just been informed that as of July, I won't be kept on and my employment will be terminated.

Have i worked to a good standard - yes, im told, by my boss
have i given it my all - yes, again my boss tells me i have done well
i have come into this line of work only last year, so although my education isnt as good as most people in this employment field, i was patient and lucky enough to be given a chance, and i have passed a few certificates for courses i have attended.

so why am i no longer employed as of july?
because of the economy and policies followed by those in charge of the country!
it is as simple as that.

the education authority i work for, as with many others across the UK, invested money in icelandic banking system, which was protected by the credit rating of AAA given out by the government.
as we now know, all this money has been lost and the government have protected individual savers (ie, voters) but for local authorities, they have nothing but a black hole in their finances.
This labour government have CUT funding in education by giving each authority less money this year, informing them to use their reserves. but as we also now know, our education authority and many others have taken government advice and checked government credit ratings and invested in icelandic banks, which have now gone bust.

is there any chance of extra funding, as the banks have got? no chance - the government dont want to know

so the kids excluded from school in the short term now have to find alternative places at fewer short stay schools, the education authority has a shortfall of funding, and myself and other staff working part time at the school are now out of a job!
the short stay school as we know it now, come july, will no longer exist!

so when the labour government slate the conservatives and liberals for having to make stringent cuts in essential services should they be elected in the future, just remember that it is this labour government that have misled local authorities over credit ratings for them to invest their reserves and get a return on them, which in turn has led to no bail out for schools, (as the banks have got) and schools are being closed, because of their incompetance!

thanks for that gormless brown!

UPDATE: i discussed this with a labour MP no less, who informed me that it was a huge problem, as not just local councils but charities and other public bodies are in exactly the same boat regarding getting their reserves back after being invested in icelandic banking system, who the government CHOSE to rate as AAA secure and reliable, even when they knew they were going under...

the MP i spoke to posted questions more than 3 months ago, and havent even received a reply!

this is how gordon brown runs his government!