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Camden New Journal - LETTERS TO THE EDITOR
Published: 7 May 2009
 
Why axe the budget?

• THANK you for your excellent coverage of the lobby outside Camden town hall of Chalcot School staff who were protesting against the budget cuts (School cuts will damage teaching, April 30).
These cuts, if they stand, will mean the loss of possibly two or three teachers, or more likely three or four support assistants. It could also mean the loss of places for up to five vulnerable children.
Chalcot School is a small special school which takes in very vulnerable boys from across the inner city. Many are angry young men who have learning difficulties or severe behavioural problems. By definition they are precisely the students we should be fighting to protect.
Chalcot provides a vital service for the young men who attend there, and it provides a vital service for Camden, and it provides a vital service for mainstream secondary schools. Why is the budget being cut?
Can someone in the council please explain to these children why this is the case?
They may wish to speak to some of them at our school, if they dare!
John Grimshaw
(Chalcot School NUT representative)
Millennium Place, E2



Send your letters to: The Letters Editor, Camden New Journal, 40 Camden Road, London, NW1 9DR or email to letters@thecnj.co.uk. The deadline for letters is midday Tuesday. The editor regrets that anonymous letters cannot be published, although names and addresses can be withheld. Please include a full name, postal address and telephone number. Letters may be edited for reasons of space.

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