Tori West is a journalist, content creator and founder/editor of the independent, Queer led, intersectional feminist publication, BRICKS MAGAZINE.
Joseph Healy is charity worker and has been for the last 13 and a half years. He is also a trade union activist, a shop steward and is a part of the London and Eastern Regional LGBT committee of UNITE.
In this interview, both Tori and Joseph opened about their experiences being from the LGBTQ+ community. Tori talked about some of the hardships she had in the workplace which led her to creating her own publication and Joseph gave us a personal insight into his life, his battle with AIDS and overcoming it – as well as sharing their hopes for the future.
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Already the backsliding begins. ITV news is reporting that the Government has changed one point in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill. They have accepted that academies will retain their ‘freedom’ to set their own pay scales for teachers. So the criteria in the School Teachers Pay and Conditions document will only apply to teachers in Local Authority schools. Why have the Government climbed down on this issue? It’s not as if this is a major financial problem for academies. But what will be the next change/climb down by the Government? Will academies be exempt from the National Curriculum? Will Local Authorities be able to build schools according to the needs of their communities or will all new schools, as at present, have to be academies?