Suffer the little children appears to be a guiding rule of Tory government.
It’s not enough that books, teachers and learning equipment have been slashed through swingeing cuts.
Today we reveal that the health and safety of kids in state schools is being directly affected by austerity.
Hundreds of dedicated school nurses have been slashed to save money – putting the health, and possibly lives, of youngsters at risk.
At the same time, swimming pools, one of the safest ways of building up lasting health, have closed at a reckless rate.
While the privileged wallow in the wealth of private facilities.
It is a picture showing that over ten years in power the Tories just don’t care.
The GMB union, which represents teachers, has issued a stark warning that cases of child abuse may be missed with the decline in nurses.
They say it is not alarmist to fear that young lives may be at risk while pupil numbers rise.
Responsibility for medical care, sometimes involving injections and complex mental issues, falls to untrained staff.
Parents and teachers are justifiably concerned at the 20 per cent fall in school nursing posts in GP surgeries, schools and community centres.
At the same time one in eight school swimming pools have closed, reducing a skill that could one day save lives.
The union’s call for increased funding and new investment should be acted on swiftly.
Now that Boris Johnson is in spending mood, there’s no more vital place to start.
