On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 16:01:17 +0100, Mark
wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 14:25:32 +0100, Petert
wrote:

On Wed, 07 Jul 2010 07:58:41 -0500, Gareth Owen wrote:

The regime which took power in 1979 forced councils to give up
maintenance departments they all had and tender to private companies
instead. The one which took over in 1997 didn't change any of this.

Consequently cash-starved councils (3/4 of their money comes ,
grudgingly, from central government) can't send a few workmen round to
sort out small repairs as they would have done in the past.


But they appear to carry out NO repairs at all, either by their own
staff or by the use of contractors.

If we are talking about state schools then (for a Foundation School)
repairs have to come out of revenue. In most cases this is already
allocated for salaries etc so there is none left for maintenance.

So what you are saying is that rather than carry out repairs to school
buildings, the policy is to let them deteriorate until funding can be
found to rebuild them.

What a brilliant policy
--
Cheers

Peter