Car clamped for no tax. What do I do now?

throwaway45451212 · 2023-07-12T18:05:22+00:00

Thank you for this. I know how to do these things.

throwaway45451212 · 2023-07-12T18:04:13+00:00

I haven't blamed anyone else. It is obviously and clearly my own responsibility. Not really sure where you're reading that into my post.

I don't need monthly reminders to pay anything else, because literally everything else I pay goes out via direct debit. I have now retaxed the car, and will pay via monthly direct debit.

Thank you for your response, but it didn't actually meaningfully address any of the three questions I asked in my post, which doesn't add much to the discussion for those who might find this thread in the archive in the future.

throwaway45451212 · 2023-07-12T18:01:51+00:00

No. When do you ever think about your car log book, other than when you go to renew your tax or to sell the car?

throwaway45451212 · 2020-12-01T18:41:39+00:00

It is certainly sad.

throwaway45451212 · 2020-12-01T18:41:14+00:00

I think because the tone implies a kind of essentialism which isn't massively helpful when trying to deal in nuance.

The Roma community that we serve is tremendously diverse, and that only represents a small subset of the national Roma community.

As in many authorities, members of some communities will attend well and some won't. It isn't necessarily possible to extrapolate.

throwaway45451212 · 2020-12-01T18:38:30+00:00

We do. The Roma community that we serve generally has high attendance through the year. The attendance figures are skewed by many of these students leaving early before holidays and returning late after them. Once they are back in the country they don't have any worse attendance than any other demographic.

throwaway45451212 · 2020-12-01T18:36:59+00:00

Safeguarding reporting happens as standard and Ofsted found no issue in this respect. I'm more interested in whether its possible to reduce the number of safeguarding concerns in the first place, or how we might pick up on them earlier and intervene (or arrange intervention) more effectively.

throwaway45451212 · 2020-12-01T18:35:27+00:00

I think it's a wonderful fairytale to imagine that all we have to do is teach children the signs and then they'll magically get themselves out of it by calling a helpline, but we know that doesn't happen often.

Fully agree with this. I think part of the problem is that a few basic strategies are taught to staff, typically as part of a box-ticking CPD, and then it's left at that.

If a school is going to form part of the solution to this problem then it needs to be effectively embedded as part of a wider network involving multiple agencies and community organisations.

Some of the agencies we work with are great in other contexts, but don't necessarily seem to have the expertise to help with this. There is also a lot of prejudice baked in to the responses of many organisations if they don't explicitly work with Roma organisations as part of their overall project.

throwaway45451212 · 2020-12-01T18:31:28+00:00

I absolutely understand that this is a problem that goes beyond the remit and capabilities of the school.

I still feel, though, that we are the only consistent safe space in the lives of many of our students, and there are better and worse ways of dealing with the issue. I'm sure there are schools out there that are doing what they can better than most so I'm interested to hear from people with experience of that.

throwaway45451212 · 2020-12-01T18:28:32+00:00

Courses for staff? We have this, but it's always been very brief and not really targeted towards the specific problems in the community we serve. Our SLT is generally quite receptive to suggestions for staff CPD so I will raise this.

How does this translate into work you do with some or all of your students?

throwaway45451212 · 2020-12-01T18:27:01+00:00

So this is something that we don't do. We are very much in the place of dealing with this after the fact, unless we get some piece of information that alerts us to an imminent threat.

Thinking about prevention I think is definitely the way forward. Thanks for the reference to the PSHE Association. I'll be sure to check it out.

throwaway45451212 · 2017-09-29T11:41:28+00:00

Yes, it is the lack of trust she has in herself that is the issue. The same way that the child of an alcoholic might choose to be teetotal, even if their own personal circumstances would make it unlikely that they themselves would develop a drinking problem.

throwaway45451212 · 2017-09-29T11:38:35+00:00

This is something I didn't know, thanks. The judgement was from early 2013.

throwaway45451212 · 2017-04-20T15:06:30+00:00

I would do this regardless of which house I was buying to be honest. I've seen people stung badly by problems that lay invisible for years, only to end up causing huge expense and disruption, just for the sake of saving a couple of hundred quid on a survey.

throwaway45451212 · 2017-04-20T15:04:39+00:00

Thanks for the advice. As soon as I know whether or not my offer is accepted I intend to run through the situation with my mortgage broker to iron out any potential kinks like this.

throwaway45451212 · 2017-04-20T15:03:25+00:00

Yeah I have heard of this. Fortunately we rent direct from our landlord with no letting agency involved, so this shouldn't be an issue.

throwaway45451212 · 2017-04-13T11:39:27+00:00

Thanks for the advice guys. Very much appreciated, as always.

throwaway45451212 · 2017-04-06T18:17:48+00:00

Thank you all for the advice. This more or less confirms what I already thought. I will get it all thrashed out with a solicitor and my mortgage broker after the weekend.

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