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  1. Bayum

    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    And how many of those are awaiting additional specialist assessments/awaiting surgery/targeted mental health support before they can even consider returning to the work place?
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Pressures in life are far more than they were even 10 years ago; war, inflation, low income, coupled with the trauma some felt during and after COVID. Massive increases in mental health - anxiety, depression - but no subsequent increase in access to mental health support due to funding. Bosses...
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    Railway Career with Pre Existing Condition

    And don’t forget, you have protections under the disability and equality act should your diagnosis become a point of contention for whatever reason. You shouldn’t have to, but you can choose who to disclose your status to, as long as any medication is declared as you know. If there is any...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    Don’t forget the massive student vote based on their pre-election propaganda…
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    East Coast Main Line - Problem in Northallerton area (13/03)?

    Is anything likely to be found after being hit by two trains at high speed?
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    World Book Day - who would you have gone as?

    Yet Lampard and others now have children’s fiction series.
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    World Book Day - who would you have gone as?

    I’ve come as Peter Rabbit today! Got lots of different characters in my class. Mary Poppins, Danny Champion of the World, a number of Hermione and of course a number of boys dressed as footballers from their sticker books…
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    4 day closure of ECML south of Peterborough

    Yep. Argument is that they have fixed term lengths, whereas we can have really long spring half terms or two very short - we’ve only got five weeks either side.
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    4 day closure of ECML south of Peterborough

    Already exists and happens. LeedsLEA has Easter at the same time each year yet North Yorkshire still have their Easter holidays with the Easter weekend and bank holiday in the middle of the two weeks.
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    School trip to London - fare advice

    Hmmm. Small group of primary school children will be fine. What would we do in central London? I can’t park a coach in the centre, go round parliament and jump straight back. At least on the train, we can get into the centre of London and easily move around the city.
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    School trip to London - fare advice

    Have you ever been on a coach with a group of children longer than 45mins? At least on a train I can get up and walk away for ten!
  12. Bayum

    School trip to London - fare advice

    Brilliant. Thank you all. The more children I can take, the better but when travel is so expensive and we have to claim back the expenses it makes it a little more challenging.
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    School trip to London - fare advice

    I’m hoping to be able to use the £1000 claim back the government are offering for schools to go down to parliament. Would likely be LNER we’d travel with. What sort of fares and discounts are available for groups of children? Would be under 12y/o. Is there an optimum number to receive these...
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    Train derailed? (Liverpool depot 12/02)

    RTT lists as ‘problem at the depot’.
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    Incident at Dalston Junction.

    Believe that’s you shot down in flames. 1707768151 Apologies. Autocorrect autocorrected shot into an expletive. Thanks, Siri.
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    Incident at Dalston Junction.

    I can’t remember why she was pushing herself up the stairs, but the mechanic proudly announced as she reached the top that the lift had been fixed and the CSAs had a good laugh…
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    Should school meals be free for everyone?

    Key Stage 1 (4-6/7y/o) are already in receipt of ‘free’ school lunches. Those who receive pupil premium, looked after or service child funding receive free school meals throughout. Generally, this is well taken up and the majority of KS1 are on hot dinners. In my view, all children should be...
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    Rishi Sunak and the Conservative Party.

    But it was Rishi who purposely selected the quote Labour used in a discussion around trans rights, and the Tories bet on this being a sound bite to appeal to the right.
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    The King has cancer.

    Wait ‘til he starts on the chemo. 1707175844 Private MRIs exist. Problem is, ‘whole body scans’ take time and resources. An MRI of my shoulder took 45mins. An MRI of my pelvis and rectum post tumour removal was an hour.
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    First West Yorkshire & York discussion

    So what’s the expectation? Passengers freeze?

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