Schools consider turning down heating and giving out jumpers to pupils to tackle soaring energy bills

Soaring energy bills have left some education bosses fretting about the cost of heating the buildings.

Steve Chalke, the head of the Oasis Academies groups of dozens of schools throughout England, told The Sun: "Whatever happens, we have got to keep the heating on in schools. We can't allow students to freeze."Schools may ask children to bring jumpers in, but we have a lot of students from poor socio-economic groups. So we will have to provide the jumpers."

Tory leadership candidate Liz Truss is considering a VAT cut of five per cent to tackle the cost of living crisis, and is expected to propose more winter fuel payments if she wins.

Hospitals and schools have been told to install back-up generators to make sure the lights stay on, but Government insiders say they are confident blackouts will be avoided.

Source: Energy Industry News (energyindustrynews.net)

That is a bullshit story

As school is mainly during daylight hours turn off the lights, ban charging of mobile phones, school dinners have some salad as part of a meal.

Same

No fun being in an unheated home. I imagine lots don’t have a living room fire as that’s all I had until I moved out when I was 19. If there’s one room heated then people can cope fine with the others

Jumpers used to be part of the uniform!

Yet still Tories under pay teachers and fail to invest in state funded education. ToriesDestroyingOurCountry ToryCostOfGreedCrisis

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