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Pam Jarvis

@drpam.bsky.social

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#FBPE, Author, Journalist, Chartered Psychologist, Associate Fellow British Psychological Society, Historian, Educator. ‘On Time’ News and Fiction writing blog at:
https://ontimesorg.wordpress.com/

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · Oct 25

It’s 2033; climate change is progressing and world leaders are still arguing. 19 year old Dylan and his generation engage in angry, desperate, illegal protest. Their future looks grim… until a mysterious time traveller makes Dylan an intriguing offer. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk

Past time for eco: what net zero is, and why we need it

A novelist imagines a near-future world that fails to meet net zero, exploring climate collapse, loss and hope through future generations

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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ditchster.bsky.social @ditchster.bsky.social · 1h

The impact has been incalculable & not in a good way sadly 😞

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1h

Have @marshfamilysongs.bsky.social thought of doing a cover of ‘Smoke on the water,’ with a little tweak to ‘Shit in the water?’ Not sure if they do requests?!

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 1h

Yes. It’s such an awful principle. Children who are the least likely to have adults to argue their corner get the worst services& the highest profiteering made out of them. But that’s business, folks. What a world Thatcher created when she started privatising education, health, care and utilities.

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ditchster.bsky.social @ditchster.bsky.social · 2h

Thank you ..its awful especially in case of those homes for young people with severe learning/physical disabilities. Too many under qualified staff, inadequate management & poor staff ratios.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2h

The public pay into a system that is maximising profits for the adults at the top of the management chain rather than focusing upon the quality of service for users. It’s a failed experiment. Maybe that’s what we should be telling Sid in 2025, eh? ‘Don’t do it.’

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2h

Yes.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2h

Exactly.

ditchster.bsky.social @ditchster.bsky.social · 2h

Ultimately I don’t think schools, care homes,children’s homes should be profit focused. The focus should be the pupils,residents,children. My focus when teaching was doing the best for the children I taught. Good management enabled that.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2h

Yes, that’s absolutely the case. And it’s an ongoing tragedy.

The children’s residential care home costs scandal – how we got there and how to fix it

With fees continuing to soar, Shahid Naqvi takes a look at a 'dysfunctional' and 'unsustainable' market

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2h

Indeed.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 2h

I suspect because of the various networks. Some CEOs have been knighted& some are in the House of Lords. The evidence to justify this doesn’t stack up. There should be a spotlight turned on the success or otherwise of public services turned over to private enterprise, on an across the board basis.

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Teaching with my eyes shut @eyesshutteacher.bsky.social · 2h

The same in health services. Tendering things like sterilisation of equipment and uniforms was meant to save the NHS money but the reality is a layer cake of suppliers taking their profits.

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ditchster.bsky.social @ditchster.bsky.social · 2h

Ultimately I don’t think schools, care homes,children’s homes should be profit focused. The focus should be the pupils,residents,children. My focus when teaching was doing the best for the children I taught. Good management enabled that.

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Mary Wombat @littlemavis.bsky.social · 3h

As with all essential services. Utilities, public transport, childcare, health

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Sue Cowley @suecowley.bsky.social · 3h

An easy way to resolve the issue of CEO pay, especially given that MATs are (exempt) charities would be to fix them at a ceiling of x times the lowest fte salary in the MAT. It's been suggested numerous times and I don't really know why the govt doesn't do it.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 4h

Exactly.

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Jenny M @abbyaug.bsky.social · 4h

I don’t think anyone should make profits out of social care. One all salaries and bills have been paid the money should be ploughed back for the benefit of those in care.

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Jeni Hooper @jenihooper.bsky.social · 7h

Corporate thinking loves the "big boss big pay" to create a thriving organisation. Might work in manufacturing inanimate objects, but in schools do children need the same kind of CEO as a staff team. Do they need a CEO at all? Trickle down economics.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 8h

I’ve started seeking out 1990s TV on YouTube. I came across some accidentally and found it much more relaxing to watch. No loud background music, no shouty voice overs, no contrived build ups that make what should be 10 minutes of content stretch across an hour. How did it all get so crap?

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 8h

Indeed. Not quite as bad as social care profiteering, (presumably because parents spot extreme abuses in schools and call them out), but certainly some bad apples in the pile.

New Report: For-profit social care provision has drastically

A new study by the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford University, funded by the Nuffield Foundation, has shed new light on the extent and impact of outsourcing in England's adult

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ditchster.bsky.social @ditchster.bsky.social · 8h

I was horrified by the way a large MAT treated our nephew especially when you think what the CEO earns. As the two articles illustrated there have sadly been some shocking examples. This sully’s the work of those who are doing their best to be inclusive.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 8h

Happy Thanksgiving to our friends in the US! 🇺🇸 🦃

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 9h

I’m not talking about what teachers earn. I’m talking about what CEOs and board members earn. It’s a very different thing. If you think that’s a distraction, fine. I’ll leave it to others (teachers and parents especially) to make up their own minds on that one.

Education MATters: exploring England’s state school industry

Conservatives claim the academisation of schools as one of their greatest achievements. But do the figures stack up?

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 9h

I’m not talking about what teachers earn. I’m talking about what MAT CEOs and board members earn. It’s a very, very different thing. @yorkshirebylines.co.uk @bylinesnetwork.co.uk @bylinetimes.bsky.social

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 9h

Also - local boards comprised from the relevant school, teacher, parent& district representatives wouldn’t be perfect, but they’d be better than we have now - no mega salaries. We don’t have to go back to LEAs. This is how state education started. It also worked (surprisingly!) well in the 1990s.

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 10h

And in further education. And no, I am not saying *all* corporate education management behave like this. But far too many do. The temptations are too great. You’re in the Harris MAT, aren’t you? What are the salaries for CEO/ board members there?

Corporate greed in education: “we felt like pawns trapped in a maze”

The corporatisation of education has enabled financial abuses for decades – Labour must act now to ensure transparency and accountability

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 10h

And the business principle in higher education…

Education, education… and bums on seats

A personal memoir of the Blair-era widening participation policy for higher education, that promised opportunity, but left a complex legacy

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 10h

I take it you also support the business principle in the management of the NHS, utilities and social care too.

How can a child in care cost £281,000 a year? Ask the wealth funds that have councils over a barrel | George Monbiot

Children crying out for stability are paying the highest price for Britain’s chaotic and exploitative residential care, says the Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 10h

We’ve gone around this ‘if you object to zero tolerance you want anarchy’ merry go round too long. Of course children& teenagers need boundaries. But these need to be managed by caring adults. Of course they need to be separated from the main cohort sometimes. But for extra attention, not isolation.

Emotion Matters: Supporting Wellbeing in Children and Young People, at Home and at School, by Dr Pam Jarvis - Progressive Education

Why do some children find it more difficult than others to deal with stress? We tend to think of stress as a ‘bad thing’, but all human lives contain some elements of stress, and difficult problems th...

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Pam Jarvis @drpam.bsky.social · 10h

I think core issues: assessment formative from the child’s perspective till mid-secondary (sampling could be used for inspection); smaller schools/ existing schools reorganised in this way for pastoral purposes; no zero tolerance discipline, a counselling team in routinely placed in every school.