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Liz Smith made some excellent points in that regard.The responsibility for school closures must lie with local authorities, which are best placed to act in the best interests of the communities that they represent.
Every parent would sympathise with the views expressed in the petition. We want our children to get the best possible education, and having a qualified teacher is the best way of ensuring that.
Are there things that we can do to modify the presumption to ensure that, at each age and stage, it works in the best interests of both the visually impaired and the hearing impaired?
We have a limited budget, and we have a duty of best value. I am afraid that we are not achieving best value, because we have ring fenced one major part of the workforce.
Going back to what Belinda Oldfield said earlier, I add that one of the key things about focusing on customer experience is to get us away from being just one of the best water utilities to being one of the best service providers in the UK.