Posts by Hilary Stace
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He's under the Mental Health Act which is a particularly tricky and fraught Act.
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Their website says workers are on individual employment contracts. People First has a great plain language employment contract that they have developed, but I doubt that they use that one.
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Ashley's story featuring on the Sunday programme TV1, this Sunday 17th July.
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Access: Fighting seclusion with…, in reply to linger,
Why can't they just give a grant to the Wise group - which is a collaboration of providers - and ask them to get on with it. Would save so much time and money.
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A flaw with the Margaret Mahy playground was that it was inaccessible to many disabled children, particularly those in wheelchairs.
To make such obvious disability-related mistakes is slightly worrying when you consider all the other stuff being built and developed. I see they are now planning some upgrading of the playground.
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I think some (maybe even most) politicians are very honest and ethical and do not lie. They might have a version of the truth that others disagree with but they do not construct a truth just because it is convenient. Trouble is, many of these people do not go far because they don't play the media versus politicians game properly or are not good at manipulating power.
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Polity: English canards, in reply to Alfie,
Or lots of rental properties.
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Actually the top earners usually have very good tax accountants who know all about tax minimisation and they often pay a lot less tax than poorer people.
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Totally irrelevant to Brexit (although education itself is a relevant aspect), but I remember coming across this one just as the Labour Government was bringing in NCEA. Remember those days when you stayed at school until you got 200 marks in school cert in one year, however long it took?
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Polity: Four cents on Brexit, Fonterra,…, in reply to Joe Wylie,
From my childhood I remembered Lodge as rather blokey mainly from his cartoons in the Sports Post. But I developed a new respect for him while working with hundreds of his cartoons. They had a strong narrative and were often -subtley - about the little man ranting against the powerful. He could be quite savage about Muldoon. Some great social and political commentary of the era. There were several about the EEC as I remember.