Analysis Topic: Local Issues
The analysis published under this topic are as follows.
Monday, April 04, 2016
Sheffield Best Secondary Schools League Tables Trend Analysis 2015 / Local / Sheffield
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Whilst most parents / students look at the most recent Sheffield school league table in making their secondary school choices, however these can from time to time prove highly misleading as many of Sheffield's 37 Secondary schools / Academies for whatever reason exhibit volatility in performance from year to year therefore a currently high ranking school may not mean that the same level of performance will continue for subsequent years as it may have been subject to special intervention and circumstances, therefore a much better methodology in the rating of schools is evaluation in terms of trend and deviations against trend.
Tuesday, March 01, 2016
Sheffield School Places Crisis Judgment Day for Secondary School Applications 2016 / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
It's crunch time for the parents of Sheffield's children starting secondary school this year as today they will find out whether their child has obtained a place at their preferred / catchment area school or not. Or as has been increasingly the case during the past few years are disappointed by the outcome as they contemplate appealing. A crisis due to a number of factors that include continuing out of control eastern european migration, year on year cuts in school budgets and rampant school applications fraud all contributing towards a crisis in school places.
Saturday, February 20, 2016
Sheffield Children's Hospital Accident And Emergency Walk-in Not Fit for Purpose / Local / NHS
By: N_Walayat
The across the board relentless deterioration in the quality of NHS healthcare is not just limited to adult services but as illustrated by the Sheffield Children's Hospital Accident and Emergency Walk-in facilities is literally an across the board manifestation of healthcare paralysis for reasons that go beyond the usual tendency for the public sector to be inefficient.
Monday, January 04, 2016
Sheffield Risk of Rivers Don and Sheaf Flooding, Great Flood of 2016? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Britain's fifth largest city, Sheffield was hit with a once in a 150 year flood in 2007, but now 8 1/2 years later Sheffield may be about to witness it's next once in a century flood as a consequence of climate change that has seen a conveyor belt of heavy rainfall hitting mostly Northern Britain every few days resulting in a series of floods working their way down Britain's backbone that most recently has impacted major northern cities such as York, Manchester. Leeds and Bradford.
Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Dobcroft School Expansion on Hold as Labour and Lib-Dems Battle Over Sheffield Hallam Election / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The comings and goings at Dobcroft Infants and Juniors school is in microcosm the crisis in Sheffield school places, where first we had the panic announcement to expand the school by 1/3rd in 2015 and 2016 onwards, which has now been thrown into doubt following city councilors trying to calculate which decision will carry the most votes with the electorate in the crucial Hallam constituency where the Lib-Dem leader, Nick Clegg is literally fighting for his political life to retain his seat.
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
Sheffield School Places Crisis 2015, Magnitude of Dobcroft Catastrophe Revealed / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
In microcosm Sheffield's Dobcroft Infants school illustrates the crisis in school places taking place right across Britain's cities as a consequence of a soaring birth rate, out of control immigration and school budget spending cuts. Where the most recent development in the unfolding saga is a detailed lengthy letter by the governing body of the school in the wake of the Sheffield city councils election panic decree for a 33% increase in school places for the intake due to be be announced April 2014, just a few weeks before the May general election as I recently covered at length in -
Monday, February 09, 2015
Sheffield School Places Crisis - Labour Council Election Panic Dobcroft Infant 33% Extra Places / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The city of Sheffield illustrates the crisis in school places that is taking place right across Britain where year on year cuts in school budgets have come up against soaring demand for places as a consequence of a soaring birth rate and immigration resulting in parents across the social spectrum desperately attempting to get their child a place at the cities best ranked state schools. And thus is the situation for Sheffield's middle class parents who have been sleep walking towards a personal school places catastrophe this year as assumptions of their child gaining a place at the nearest catchment area school for infants foundation / reception year admission would soon be shattered come the announcement of school place allocations during April 2015.
Friday, December 05, 2014
Sheffield School Places Admissions Crisis - End of Catchment Areas Labour Election Bribe? / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Labour controlled Sheffield City Council is desperately attempting to address the perfect storm that the city faces as the demand for places at Sheffield's best state schools far exceeds places available that for some schools is resulting in twice the number of applications as there are places (i.e. Dobcroft Infants Sch. places 90, applications 150). The perfect storm is as a consequences of several converging factors of year on year real terms budget cuts at a time of a rising natural birth rate, continuing out of control immigration and its consequences in terms of disruption of social cohesion in areas of the city, desperate parents utilising every trick under the sun to circumvent the catchment area rules such as encouraging over eager psychologists to expand the scope of the Special Educational Needs statements (SEN's) that for some schools has now been expanded to include 1/3rd of all children, and an epidemic in outright fraudulent school applications in terms of use of catchment area addresses.
Saturday, October 25, 2014
Labour Party Anoints Alan Billings as Next South Yorkshire Police and Crime Commissioner / Local / UK By-Elections
By: N_Walayat
The Labour party in the aftermath of the Rotherham child abuse scandal Jay Report chaos and the eventual resignation of Sean Wright as South Yorkshires Police and Crime Commissioner in a panic has opted to play ultra safe in the selection of Dr Alan Billings as the next Police Commissioner for the Peoples Republic of South Yorkshire which given the last SYPCC poll that saw Labour win by more than a 35% lead against the second place candidate which ensures that the actual election will just be a mere formality.
Friday, October 17, 2014
Sheffield Roma Crisis School Place Application's Fraud Perfect Storm / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield's growing crisis in areas of the city such as Page Hall / Firth Park where literally an influx of several thousand mostly Roma migrants has proceeded to tear at the social fabric of the community that has started to spill over into Sheffield's schools that had already been facing a crisis in school places as a consequence of year on year real terms budget cuts at a time of a rising birth rate that is now resulting in a perfect storm that will likely manifest itself in a record number of fraudulent school place applications over the coming weeks for academic year starting September 2015.
Saturday, October 11, 2014
Sheffield Best Secondary Schools Analysis for 2015 School Place Applications / Local / Sheffield
By: Adnaan_Walayat
Parents of approx 6000 Sheffield students will be counting down to the deadline for making a secondary school application for the academic year starting September 2015, where the deadline for online applications is 22nd October 2014 and 31st October for paper applications with supporting information to be supplied by no later than 26th November. Whilst students who fail to make an application will be allocated a school place by the Admissions team which will NOT necessarily be at the students catchment area school.
Friday, October 10, 2014
Sheffield Fears Ebola Outbreak Following Royal Hallamshire Hospital Baldrick Decision / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The committee of Baldricks in charge of the NHS have arrived at a cunning plan for containment of the deadly Ebola virus WHEN it arrives on Britain’s shores by SPREADING infected people throughout the country right into the heart of Britain’s largest cities so as to ensure maximum risk of infection. And so Sheffield's Royal Hallamshire Hospital has been designated as South Yorkshire's first hospital to act as source for infection of the cities 550k population.
Wednesday, August 27, 2014
Shaun Wright to Resign as SYPCC, Rotherham Mega Child Abuse is About Religion Not Race / Local / Social Issues
By: N_Walayat
The clock is counting down on what is inevitable if not an imminent statement from Shaun Wright resigning as South Yorkshire's Police and Crime Commissioner as he comes under intense pressure not just from political opponents but also from his own Labour party as a consequence of a litany of failures under his watch as the councillor with responsibility for Children's Services in Rotherham from 2005 to 2010, in the wake of revelations that at least 1400 girls in the care of Rotherham children services were were abused by in large part local asian men of Pakistani origin that Rotherham's politicians, Police and Council agencies collectively turned a blind eye to for over a decade.
Tuesday, August 05, 2014
Sheffield Eid Festival 2014, Millhouses Park Photos / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The Sheffield Eid Festival of 2014 expanded from 1 day to a 2 day event turned out to be a tale of 2 days, with only approx 4,000 people attending on Saturday (2nd August) compared to twice the number of at least 8,000 attending on Sunday (3rd August). Though this mismatch between numbers attending had less to do with the organisers and more to do with the Met Office / BBC's inaccurate weather forecast of rain literally for the whole of the Saturday time-table that failed to materialise.
Friday, August 01, 2014
Gaza Death Cloud Hangs Over Sheffield Eid Festival 2014 at Millhouses Park / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Many of the regions muslim communities had been eagerly looking forward to celebrating the end of the month of Ramadan by enjoying their second year of festivities at the Sheffield Eid Festival to be held at Millhouses park this weekend on 2nd and 3rd August 2014, that last year was proclaimed as being a huge success, attended by over 7,000 people due to the fact that entry was / is FREE.
Wednesday, May 21, 2014
Sheffield Labour Councils Baldrick Plan to Create Mega Primary Schools, Greystones Example / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The parents of Sheffield's primary age children in ever greater numbers each year tend to find that their child has been rejected for a place at their school of choice, even for catchment area schools due to the blanket reason for rejection being that of schools being over-subscribed. However, what this masks is the underlying truth of severe cuts in the schools budget / places over many years that has been further exacerbated by the huge influx of several thousand's of east european migrant families.
Friday, April 11, 2014
Sheffield, Rotherham Roma Benefits Plague, Ch5 Documentary Gypsies on Benefits & Proud / Local / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
Channel 5 will be showing a documentary tonight (at 9pm, also available on demand) that will illuminate the consequences of out of control eastern european mass immigration that has resulted in literally a flood of migrants whose primary focus is NOT to work hard but to maximise benefits by moving whole villages lock stock and barrel to cities such as Birmingham, Sheffield and Rotherham which is the focus of today's C4 programme.
Tuesday, April 08, 2014
Sheffield Half Marathon Cancelled Incompetent Organisers Refusing to Refund Runners / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
Sheffield, supposedly the city of sport has been truly nationally humiliated as within minutes of the start of the cities annual half marathon it was cancelled due to for all reasons lack of water, which left some 4,500 runners, many of whom had trained for months to stand twiddling their thumbs. Some in disgust decided to run the half marathon anyway. However, the organisers were not even competent at canceling the race by failing to properly announce to all of the entrants that the race had indeed been cancelled so over half the entrants followed the lead of those at the front and ran the race, relying on the good people of Sheffield to provide them with water enroute.
Tuesday, January 28, 2014
Save Sheffield From Labour! Roma Immigration Crisis the Latest Labour Council Failure / Local / Sheffield
By: N_Walayat
The mainstream media continues to report on the consequences of the most recent wave of mass immigration underway from eastern europe in the form of Roma villages moving lock, stock and barrel to places such as Sheffield's Page Hall area or as it is being to refer to by some locals as Page Hole, as the latest wave of migration appears to have prompted panic amongst pro-immigration Labour politicians on fears of a voter back lash such as the former Labour Home Secretary, David Blunkett who recently warned of the potential for civil unrest during 2014 as a consequence of the arrival of as many as 8000 Roma peoples with a concentration of approx 4,000 in the Page Hall area alone.
Friday, January 17, 2014
Sheffield Roma Riots 2014 Warns Labour MP David Blunkett - Immigration Cultural Catastrophe / Local / Sheffield
By: Nadeem_Walayat
It is not often that left wing normally pro-immigration Labour MP's can be found to be warning of the consequences of mass immigration, and not just any old back bencher but the former Labour Home Secretary David Blunkett was recently widely reported in the mainstream media warning of the consequences of immigration in the form of the ongoing influx of Roma communities from eastern europe into his home city of Sheffield where the Roma population has soared from less one hundred 8 years ago to well over 4,000 today, concentrated in pockets of the city such as Page Hall, that he warns could spill over into violence on the streets due to the clash of cultures between the indigenous / settled communities and the huge Roma influx underway as Czech, Slovak and Romanian Roma villages are literally moving lock stock and barrel to places such as Sheffield to draw on 15-20 times the financial value of benefits and social services that they are in receipt of in the likes of Romania.