Perspective 23.6.24 - Education Minister rejects school closures … and lots more.

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Sunday, 23 June 2024 - 50 minutes

Garff MHK Daphne Caine has certainly not been short of challenges since she took up the reins at the Department of Education. Do you save £7m a year by closing primary schools and other ‘efficiencies’ or acknowledge that the backlash from those affected will be to big a political price to pay for a government which struggles to find popularity? As ever in politics there’s always much more to these decisions than the pithy headline as Mrs Caine explains on Perspective. The Chief Minister told Tynwald he’s looking for efficiencies across government so is the school closure rejection an opportunity missed?

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