{"id":23591,"date":"2025-07-25T20:58:09","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:58:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23591\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T20:58:09","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T20:58:09","slug":"economist-suggests-merging-jersey-and-guernsey-public-services","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/23591\/","title":{"rendered":"Economist suggests merging Jersey and Guernsey public services"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Wayne Bates, a national negotiator for teacher&#8217;s union NASUWT, said co-operation between schools was a &#8220;good thing&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He said any changes to improve education, performance and outcomes for pupils would have a &#8220;beneficial impact on the economies of both islands&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Dr McCullough, who works for the islands to investigate breaches into their codes of conduct, said a collaboration would need an &#8220;equal partnership&#8221;, regardless of the size of the island.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s about better service delivery, it&#8217;s not necessarily about conforming to one sort of model,&#8221; she said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Anybody who is looking to share services&#8230; has to be clear about mutual respect.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Each island has an equal say.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Wayne Bates, a national negotiator for teacher&#8217;s union NASUWT, said co-operation between schools was a &#8220;good thing&#8221;. He&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":23592,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[84,1294,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-23591","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/23592"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}