groups can build support for schools where governors have set deficit budgets (which we now call 'needs budgets') and there is the question of whether or not councils will intervene. SO: So what is FACE planning nationally? SL: Firstly we are working to consolidate our links with some of the organisations that have supported us, and hopefully build better links with the teaching unions which have supported us locally but not nationally.
I will be speaking for FACE at an STA fringe meeting at NUT Conference.
We will also be producing some FACE publicity, to ensure that our name cannot be used by small groups claiming to speak on our behalf.
But we are also building for a vvIv national conference, to be held in Coventry on June 10. We want this to be very broad, reflecting the base of the campaign.
And we want to organise another demonstration in September, as the process of preparing a new round of cuts gets under way.
But perhaps most urgent of all is to raise some money to cover the costs of the campaign. Some of these are at present being underwritten by generous NUT branches, but we have to pay some back.
A fund-raising benefit is being planned, but we do need to urge local FACE groups and anyone that supports us to send a donation. • Contact FACE c/o St Giles County Middle School, Hayes Lane. Exhall, Coventry CV7 9NS. Phone 0589-789104.