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Listed below are the latest findings of council inspectors, as they are back in Bradford. Almost 4,000 premises across Bradford are rated by the Food Standards Agency, based on the findings of local authority inspectors, who work all year round. The hygiene standards found at the time of inspection are then rated on a scale. Five is top of the scale, meaning the hygiene standards are very good and fully comply with the law. Zero is at the bottom of the scale, meaning urgent improvement is necessary. Here are this week s reviews:
SANDS SANDWICHES
Rating: 3
Cleanliness and condition of facilities and building: Generally Satisfactory
“I know we will be joined by many local authorities up and down the country, and the concern is, where are those children.”
She added that the situation had also been exacerbated by “central policy developments” including the opening up of free schools, which have a provision of places which “does not necessarily relate itself directly to what local authorities [are] providing”.
Falling primary school rolls are far from a Hackney-specific issue. As London house prices continue to rise and birth rates fall, it poses a threat to schools whose government funding is directly linked to the numbers of pupils they admit.
Teaching staff pickets outside Hackney s Parkwood Primary School near Finsbury Park.
- Credit: Hackney NEU
Teachers are striking at a Hackney primary school following year on year government cuts they claim are leading to possible redundancies and worsening working conditions.
Staff at Parkwood Primary School, on Queen s Drive near Finsbury Park, staged walk-outs on Tuesday and Wednesday this week in a bid to prevent job cuts, building on one day of picketing last week.
Jamie Duff, Hackney National Education Union officer, said government cuts to education funding year on year have had serious consequences for Hackney schools . He said: These cuts eventually lead to redundancies and attacks on the working conditions of education workers.
THERE are just a few days left to take part in a public consultation into proposals to introduce a 20mph speed limit and accompanying traffic calming measures on a Keighley street.
Bradford Council is planning to introduce the speed limit on Parkwood Street in Keighley – home to Parkwood Primary School and the Parkwood Centre for Young People. And there will also be a number of “speed cushions” installed on the street to help maintain the lower speed limit. Consultations on both the new limit and the traffic calming measures began last month and will run until Thursday. In recent years Bradford Council has begin introducing a number of 20mph zones in town and city centres, as well as around schools, to improve road safety.