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Reading Solutions UK - home of the award-winning, online literacy programme Reading Plus - invites you to join their first ever Great North Reading Conference 2021. Aimed at senior leaders, English literacy leads and children in primary education, the free, online conference will be held over three days and boasts a series of content packed webinars led by award-winning authors and experts in literacy and education. Michael Walker, director at Reading Solutions UK, told us: “The Great North Reading Conference is an opportunity to bring together educators in a positive way that isn’t about catch-up, remote learning or Covid, it’s simply to celebrate and showcase what schools in the North-East are doing around reading and promoting reading for pleasure.
Southwark cabinet members faced an all-day scrutiny meeting on Monday Temporary accommodation in Southwark is at crisis point and the situation is set to get worse, the council’s overview and scrutiny committee was told on Monday (January 25). The council has overspent by more than £8.9 million this year in homeslessness services, while the number of homeless applications has surged by 51 per cent compared to this time last year. The details emerged during an all-day scrutiny meeting on the council’s upcoming budget. Southwark Council is proposing £14.7 million in budget cuts next year, £2.7 million of which will affect services. It is also planning to take £5 million from its around £21 million reserves to balance the budget.