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Londra Gazete, 08 September 2022 LondraGazete.com/English 7

School trips could be axed

in bid to keep staff

SCHOOLS may have to scrap But rising coach costs are put- headteacher at Hartford Manor
trips out for students and halt ting the trip in doubt, she said. primary school in Cheshire, said
music lessons as they battle ris- Ms Bartlett also said that pupils that his school was likely to be in
ing costs, it has been reported. were likely to drop out of one-to- £80,000 of debt after staff pay
Headteachers told BBC news one music lessons due to the cost rises this year.
that school trips would have to be of living crisis. He is looking at making savings
cut before they considered reduc- “These lessons... are invaluable. by reducing swimming lessons to
ing staff. But they are incredibly expen- half a term for most pupils and
Instagram fined €405m larly hard by rising energy costs sive, as you can imagine. It’s un- cutting back on school trips.
Schools have been hit particu-
affordable for parents,” she said.
A Department for Education
over children's data privacy and teachers are having to find Association of Head Teachers un- schools we are increasing core
Vice-president for the National spokesman said: “To support
savings as a result.
IRISH regulators have fined Insta- sion. It is the third fine handed to the One head teacher, Jayne Bart- ion, Simon Kidwell, who is also a funding by £4bn this year alone.”
gram €405m for violating children's company by the regulator. lett, said that she was unsure
privacy. The company say the inquiry “fo- whether her school’s yearly trip
The long-running complaint con- cused on old settings that we updat- to Bletchley Park could go ahead.
cerned children's data - particularly ed over a year ago and we've since She was worried that poor-
their phone numbers and email ad- released many new features to help er pupils would be significant-
dresses. keep teens safe and their informa- ly impacted if they weren’t able
Some reportedly upgraded to busi- tion private...” to make the trip, which helps to
ness accounts to access analytics The DPC regulates large technolo- teach students at Shenley Acad-
tools such as profile visits, without gy companies with European head- emy, Birmingham, about Second
realising this made more of their quarters in the Republic of Ireland. World War code breakers.
data public. It has never given such a large fine “They are students whose par-
"We adopted our final decision last for a breach of the European Union's ents cannot afford to take them
Friday and it does contain a fine of General Data Protection Regulation. to museums, to art galleries, to
€405m [£349m]," Ireland's Data Pro- But last year, it fined WhatsApp places like Bletchley Park or to
tection Commissioner (DPC) said. €225m, while Luxembourg's data travel abroad to different coun-
Instagram's owner, Meta, said it authority fined Amazon a record try to experience the culture,” she
planned to appeal against the deci- €746m. said.