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If so, do you believe that phasing could have a detrimental effect on the outcomes and success of the bill? To be honest, I am not up to date with the Executive's current proposals for the bill's implementation.
A letter from the Minister for Justice, Mr Jim Wallace, dated October 2002, is relevant in this regard, but it did not clarify for me points that the committee raised in the report.
My authority has made cuts of about £5 million a year for the past seven years. We have to date made cuts that have cropped £45 million from a budget of about £200 million.
That is taking some time, although CIPFA is getting on with it well. The earliest likely date is 2004—in our view, that should also be the latest date.
It is obvious that, to meet the target date, more effort and resources will need to be expended.Even if that reduction is achieved—and it would be better to work at it than to promise it—its effect would be marginal.
Teachers are better off in the maelstrom of teaching if they can contribute in a reasonable and up-to-date way to the work of the General Teaching Council.