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It is called single status and it assigned wages based on the content of the work rather than the traditional wage, so for example the team emptying bins used to get paid much more than the cleaners who filled the bins despite the similar work requirements because emptying bins is a traditionally male job and cleaning is a traditionally female job. This is how Birmingham went bankrupt, they had so many jobs that required the wages increasing that they could not afford it and kept putting it off. This process works with in an employer so LEA staff are grouped with the council but MAT staff are with the MAT, causing staff in neighbouring schools to be on widely different pay and conditions now.

We use Chromebook plus devices and they are great, they do cost the same as a decent laptop so there is no initial cost saving but the the TCO is much lower. We did run into issues with most Chromebook pluses being 16:10 and some of the staff hating this because it puts letterbox borders on the interactive screen especially if the initial slide is 16:9 where it does a double letterbox so you might want to test this out with the users before purchase.

GL Assessment, I have not managed this for a number of years but it used to be fairly simple

To be fair I have seen the same from humans, except they try to doge the blame or hide the issue. *Dodge*

We are Lightspeed, V3.4.3 apparently fixes the issue. I have not seen the isuse or the fix my self.

We have see this across the trust but it has been fixed by updating the filtering solution.

AWS is having a momont today, I don't know if they are connected but it is breaking LightSpeed filtering. We have no Youtube across all our sites.

We use Sigin app with the clubs as a list of staff so the students sign in to visit a club

It's not always the best idea to host your website and hold your DNS at the same company, if there is an issue and you get locked out you have no access to either whilst by holding them seperate you have more options. You also have more admin overhead and potentially more cost so ...

This has stopped happening now and I am again been taken to the first unread post. Thank you

Good Morning I am having an issue where when I click on the first unread post button it takes me to the top of the page not the first unread post. Mike

All I see is stars

They work well in Banks where the customer can only see the screen from an angle and the teller is sitting one screen, in a normal office with people walking around they are less useful as their will often be people standing behind the monitor looking over the users shoulder and with two big screens it is hard to get the viewing angle right.

The issue often with modern CCTV is the 4k cameras, it takes a lot of graphical grunt to display 16 4k images on a site manager's desktop, either natively or transcoded. I have set up CCTV Terminal servers in the past with a powerful graphics card and lots of RAM for staff to remote into rather than spending on each users desktop.

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