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There's a better understanding of these issues than there was in the past which leads to there being more information and thus more diagnoses.
There's a better understanding of these issues than there was in the past which leads to there being more information and thus more diagnoses.I think it’s valid to ask why so many kids are SEND(?) now. When I was at school it wasn’t a thing, which obviously wasn’t the case it was just not considered. Have we gone too far the other way and now have an education system pumping out kids not ready to play a role in the workforce.
Having said that I’m sure absolutely destroying mental health services in the last decade or so hasn’t helped.
It does concern me a lot to see toddlers and very young children out and about glued to screens and then crying when the screen is removed. Likewise seeing families out to eat and the children have to be prompted to put down devices and eat something.Throw in mobile phones (plus social media) as one of the main reasons for starters. Crazy that there doesn’t seem to be proper recognition of this. I’ve noticed with a fully formed brain (some might argue with that) how my attention span/focus has dropped off, god knows what it’s doing to kids. Frightening
COVID didn't help some of these kids. My youngest niece was flying pre-COVID, top marks etc. Then after COVID couldn't get her back to regular school attendance (100s thousands kids apparently the same). Then she was diagnosed with a form of autism which hasn't helped. The final straw was some charmer spread rumours of having under age sex with her - this led to some vicious bullying (online and direct). teacher reported the sex claim to the police without informing her parents and that led to even more stress for her. Said charmer then turned up at school and held a knife to her face threatening to scar her for life - penalty for that 3 day exclusion as he had issues!! So that was it for school attendance for her plus there were the 2 overdoses she took trying to kill herself during all this- all this before she was 15 years of age.I think it’s valid to ask why so many kids are SEND(?) now. When I was at school it wasn’t a thing, which obviously wasn’t the case it was just not considered. Have we gone too far the other way and now have an education system pumping out kids not ready to play a role in the workforce.
Having said that I’m sure absolutely destroying mental health services in the last decade or so hasn’t helped.
Serendipity, this just popped up, can't tell you anything about this organisation but at face value the situation described is bonkers.It's probably generational, I'd bet their parents have never done a day's work so now they aren't.
Being send isn't an excuse, obviously if somebody is severely disabled they can't work.
I don’t think austerity is necessarily the root cause of changes in pay & benefits, at least not in my sector.
It’s a convenient excuse used by those at the top. The amount of work the companies I have worked for has never dropped as a result of austerity or any other crisis yet they’re constantly referenced as a reason to need to cut staff, stop pay rises, stop bonuses & benefits etc. Not to mention the trend of cutting staff and expecting those remaining to take on the additional workload.
As for benefits think we need to stop obsessing over the minority who have no desire to work and instead concentrate on the large number of people who would love to play a more active role in society. Support for those people is non existent and they never seem to be spoken about when people talk about the need to have less people on benefits.
The modest reforms you speak of planned to take my wife’s PIP. Not ‘modest’ for us I assure you.
Jonathan Haidt has done some good work on this. iPads/iPhones (and so on) are hugely effective pacifiers. They are genuinely terrible for child development!It does concern me a lot to see toddlers and very young children out and about glued to screens and then crying when the screen is removed. Likewise seeing families out to eat and the children have to be prompted to put down devices and eat something.
Generally, we risk over diagnosing and potentially over medicating now.There's a better understanding of these issues than there was in the past which leads to there being more information and thus more diagnoses.
I don't think there is any risk it's happened & happening.Generally, we risk over diagnosing and potentially over medicating now.
I hear a lot of anecdotes that children with behavioural issues are effectively allowed to run riot in the same of empathy.
In terms of income tax the top 1% pay 30% of all income tax generate. Top 10% pay 60%. We discussed before that unless there is a global tax on wealth the richest will just move where they see fit. I think we’re losing 16k millionaires this year highest in the world (after around 10k last year). I added a link yesterday about Norway, also see Hollande and France.
Then you get the case for increased immigration (appeal of illegal immigration) going up because of shortages in the labour force. Then you get the cost to the NHS in dealing with this. It is just going to spiral.11% on incapacity benefits is no longer a minority underclass that can be ignored. The approvals for sickness benefit has surpassed 3,000 per day.
The system entraps people into dependency, below, I’ll link an interesting Twitter thread (same guy has done a documentary with more detail, C4) with a testimony about how there’s no incentive for them to work full time.
It’s ordinary for people to not like it when something is being taken away. The amount of claimants has shot up 200k in the past year, the welfare bill is growing and so is our national debt, and with that, debt repayments is in the region of £110bn. The more this number grows, the less money there is elsewhere for public services and so on.
I’ve not looked into it seriously, but it’s likely that I’d be eligible for PIP but on principle, I wouldn’t apply unless I genuinely needed that safety net.
The welfare state was created as a ‘safety net’ and by definition, temporary.
I think it’s valid to ask why so many kids are SEND(?) now. When I was at school it wasn’t a thing, which obviously wasn’t the case it was just not considered. Have we gone too far the other way and now have an education system pumping out kids not ready to play a role in the workforce.
Having said that I’m sure absolutely destroying mental health services in the last decade or so hasn’t helped.
The tax system ought to be optimised for revenue and the mistake the left often makes is that increasing tax % = more receipts. Labour is finding this lesson the hard way because their non-dom clamp down and private school VAT raids have backfired (3 or 4 x more students left than projected).
Even in the UK, corporation tax receipts increased significantly after George Osborne decreased the rate by 5 or 10%.
The OBR seems to reject the Laffer curve (as do many on here) and multiplier effects of reducing taxation.
As an example, the cost of raising the tax threshold to 20k would probably be offset by increased VAT receipts.
Throw in mobile phones (plus social media) as one of the main reasons for starters. Crazy that there doesn’t seem to be proper recognition of this. I’ve noticed with a fully formed brain (some might argue with that) how my attention span/focus has dropped off, god knows what it’s doing to kids. Frightening
When we were kids we were told we couldn't watch too much TV because it was bad for us - certainly no daytime TV even in school holidays. My niece with autism can spend 8 hours + a day on her mobile looking at all sorts. Can't believe that helps her situation. They've prescribed her sleeping tablets to literally stop her spending all night on her mobile/tablets.I think we’ll look back at the 2010-20s and phones the same way we do now at drunk driving in the 70s. Mental that we ever allowed it.
I occasionally find myself mindlessly scrolling short videos before snapping out of it, it's quite something how easy it is to be drawn into.When we were kids we were told we couldn't watch too much TV because it was bad for us - certainly no daytime TV even in school holidays. My niece with autism can spend 8 hours + a day on her mobile looking at all sorts. Can't believe that helps her situation. They've prescribed her sleeping tablets to literally stop her spending all night on her mobile/tablets.
They are a problem once they find your weak spots - current affairs, music from your youth, certain sports - couple of hours later you realize you've been hadI occasionally find myself mindlessly scrolling short videos before snapping out of it, it's quite something how easy it is to be drawn into.
I occasionally find myself mindlessly scrolling short videos before snapping out of it, it's quite something how easy it is to be drawn into.
If you can draw the laffer curve and identify where any country is on it (backed by a repeatable method) I’ll give you a million pounds.
Oh brother… Politics and economics isn’t a game that can be min-maxed, then copied and pasted across all countries. There isn’t a right or wrong answer and there’ll be time and place when ‘centrist’, ‘right wing’ or ‘left wing’ policies are correct.
The Laffer curve is not an instruction manual of setting a tax % at ‘x’ and this will maximise revenues. Rather, it’s a very general principle that there’s a point at which you get diminishing returns as you jack the tax rate up.
The last time a chancellor cut a tax significantly, tax receipts went up when Osborne lowered corporation tax.
Meanwhile, our tax burden is the heaviest it’s been since WW2, real disposable income has declined and household saving is going up. So this will invariably cannibalise the tax take.
Going back far enough, you extolled the virtues of charging VAT on private schools. The assumption was that it would raise £1.5-1.7bn a year with only 1.3k or so drop outs. It’s about 3 or 4 times this figure which means the tax will almost definitely not raise the expected sums whilst pressuring state schools to absorb more students. ‘Epic fail’.
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