Newly invented non-jobs

[anotheoldgit]

http://www.dailymail....-Nazis-quite-mad.html

This brilliant worded article by Richard Littlejohn, highlights perfectly what is going wrong in Brown's Town Halls.

/// Newly invented non-jobs include a £41,000-a-year 'promoting healthy weight' adviser in Lewisham and a £19,000-a-year 'temporary mass participation' worker in Bromsgrove.///

/// Mid-Suffolk has recruited a development officer to teach juggling to youngsters. Fife has a cheerleader and a 'teen funk' instructor.///

/// When the Government announced plans to encourage people to abandon their cars and walk to work, I predicted that it would spawn a whole new job creation scheme.///

/// Within weeks, the Guardian was running adverts for 'community walking coordinators'.///

Giv'us a job!

[ummmm]

Has Zeuhl gone again?

[New Judge]

If you look at the child care job I cited, Quinlad, you will see that it is not about looking after children at all. It is about developing “...good working practices with the Integrated Children Looked After teams so that we can together implement the forthcoming IRO Handbook and other care planning guidance.” I believe the “Children Looked After” programme refers to children in local authority care. The job description does not mention anything about looking after children (whether in care or not) and the job (if that is the correct term) seems to be about preparing practices and guidance for something that should already be in place anyway (after all, local authorities have been looking after children for some time).

As far as support for culture and the arts goes, if we cannot afford to pay for care for the elderly then we cannot afford to support the Royal Opera House, the "Fourth Plinth" team, the National Gallery et al. People wishing to take advantage of those facilities will have to pay the full going rate for them in the same way that many people have to pay the full going rate for long term care. Opera, art galleries and discussions about statues in Trafalgar Square are luxuries we simply cannot afford at present.

[theonlyone]

New Judge , you got it in one ...

[anotheoldgit]

New Judge 3 --- Quinlad 0

[Quinlad]

Interesting, NJ, that you argue that care for elderly is currently inadequate while suggesting that people employed in admininstrative roles designed to improve care provision are a waste of money. Should all the extra funds go towards more people to wipe bum-bums? Or do you think back office roles have a part to play?

I agree that that it's easy to take pot shots at the language of the public sector. That's why Littlejohn can manage it.

On the culture point, away from subsiding free entry to the opera (nicely chosen examples by the way!), are you suggesting that zero money should be spent on culture and the arts until elderly care is up to scratch? It's fine if you are - but I'm interested.

[New Judge]

Yes.