The data revolution starts here
Friday, March 26, 2010 An arts club set up by Hackney council has had its funding withdrawn because it wasn't “reaching the families with the most difficult needs” reports Karen McTigue on The Free Society website today. "In need of what exactly, is unclear. Art? Socialising?"
She explains:
It appears that the council had used the postcodes of those attending the children’s club, then determined the property values of those areas, and subsequently decided that the attending children must be middle class, and therefore not “in need” ...
In a big brother style letter to the art club leader the council says that the reasons for closure are “based on our monitoring information”.
From birth to death, writes Karen, we are forced to define ourselves within boundaries set by officialdom. We have a responsibility to question why we are required to provide information about ourselves and, if necessary, refuse.
Full article HERE.
Reader Comments (2)
My children live and went to school in Hackney and parent's open evening at the school was always very poorly attended apart from the people who lived in the nice houses. It is like public libraries in that though entirely free it is the middle class who tend to use them.
BTW top tip of the day, having trouble getting Facebook to load, sign onto FB and then press home, works everytime and you can catch up on the news on Forest.
I do sometimes feel like we live in a cage from cradle to grave.