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Gina Long
Wendy Baker indulging in her love of painting
- Credit: Dan Woodside
After the hospitality industry began reopening last week, and alfresco dining and drinking became the ‘new normal’, Wendy Baker was somewhat ahead of the curve – by 20 years.
The artisan co-owner of the Dancing Goat Café in Framlingham, which is also her home, was one of the first to introduce outside seating in 2001 when she opened their café.
A proud Liverpudlian, Wendy is equally at home championing art and education, to working on her next creation, or enjoying the region’s countryside and coastline, with her partner Dan and their daughters. Here she talks to Gina Long.
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In 2015, pupils at another local school, the Alde Valley academy, now part of Roweâs Waveney Valley academies trust, went public with its concerns about the impact of the new free schools, as its budgets and courses were cut. Even today there are surplus places at Alde Valley and Seckford free schools in Saxmundham and Beccles.
And the record on school standards is mixed. According to the New Schools Network, free schools are more likely to be rated outstanding than other types of school, and when the early free schools GCSE results were published in 2017 Young, who founded West London free school, proclaimed that free schools were âthe most successful education policy of the postwar periodâ.