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Schools Shortchange

The government pride themselves on funding school rebuilding through PFI. The only problem is that they are not giving all the money. Par for the course really. They are only giving about 80% of the cash.

It looks like "building schools for the future" is going to be similarly partially funded.

I am also worried about planned NHS bed cuts in Birmingham. The details on this are not clear yet, however.

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