Thursday, 20 May 2021, 3:43 pm
Canterbury Employers’ Chamber of Commerce (The Chamber)
Chief Executive Leeann Watson says today’s Budget 2021
announcement has largely overlooked the role of business in
the country’s economic recovery.
Finance Minister
Grant Robertson outlined his fourth Budget today, which
focused on the three pillars of child poverty, affordable
housing and climate change.
Ms Watson says: Rather
than taking a balanced approach within this Budget on
societal issues and the economic recovery and rebuild, it
feels like the Government has taken an either/or approach.
In order to focus on some of the significant issues we face
in New Zealand, such as around child poverty, affordable
West Lothian teacher embraces technology to succeed in lockdown
Sandra Kasparek received a Digital Boost Grant from West Lothian Council to adapt language school to lockdown
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An enterprising teacher in Livingston has defied the lockdown gloom with the help of a Digital Boost Grant awarded to her by West Lothian Council.
Sandra Kasparek, who runs her French School La Jolie Ronde French – Livingston, teaches extracurricular French classes in four primary schools in Livingston and Falkirk, to children from five years old.