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ChrisMayLA6, to DadBin
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George Monbiot on the role of profit in (children's) social care:

'two Northamptonshire councils revealed they are paying an average of £281,000 a year for each residential placement, or £5,400 a week. A direct comparison cannot be made, because many children in care have complex needs, but just by way of reference Eton’s eye-watering fees are £46,000 a year'!

So, much of tax payers money is supporting investors not those needing care!

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/article/2024/may/18/child-care-cost-year-wealth-funds-councils-britain-residential

mandelbroccoli,
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@ChrisMayLA6 I have a friend that works in a school for kids with needs that can’t be met by mainstream schooling, and each child that lives outside the town where the school is situated gets a budget for taxi transport of £40k annually. That’s significantly more than the annual income of a lot of their families, and it makes me wonder if a). That’s really the most cost-effective way to get them to school, and b). If that money couldn’t be better spent improving their home life, which is obviously and evidentially the root cause of many of their problems.

ChrisMayLA6, to scifi
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This week I've been mainly reading, no. 148.

The first book of Ann Leckie's Radch trilogy, Ancillary Justice (2013) offers an interesting plot of AI, identity & insurrection. Leckie builds an interesting (political) world/universe for her tale of revenge & becoming, which while at times a little too tricksy, overall remains a compelling bit of space-opera. If at times the plot seems a little too convoluted, the central idea(s) is/are intriguing & developed interestingly


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mandelbroccoli,
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@ChrisMayLA6 @bookstodon the Translators are some of my favourite character writing in any book, a genius (and funny) way to portray ineffable and incomprehensible aliens

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