After the election it was business as usual last night as I attended the Governing Body meeting of Heaton Park School.

The school was recently subjected to an Ofsted inspection and the Head, Paul Lord, was pleased to announce that they had achieved satisfactory status. I offered my congratulations to the Head teacher and his staff for all their hard work.

What was interesting also was the growing concern about what may be about to happen with spending cuts and how it will affect the school. Clearly after months of the political parties going on about the need for cuts, with a new Government formed there is a growing feeling that the first tranche of cuts are now imminent - indeed their will be an emergency budget on June 22nd.

Of course I received some gentle ribbing about being in a coalition etc. But so far as I am concerned it remains a case of wait and see, we are all in unchartered territory here, we all (perhaps except Labour), need it to work for the good of the country, so lets not pre-judge.