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The Guernsey Builders Trades Employers Association has issued another open letter to deputies ahead of the 2024 Budget debate resuming, as its members wait for news on the future of the Transforming Education Programme and whether they'll get the go ahead to start work.
The full letter is below:
Dear Deputies,
Post-sixteen education in Guernsey is approaching crisis point. Uncertainty and lack of investment has significantly compromised the teaching and learning opportunities for our young people.
We have said it before and say it again, as a community we should be ashamed that we have let the education strategy and facilities of our island get to the state they are in today.
Your failure to approve and fund the education strategy only serves to perpetuate and worsen this situation.
Our young people are the future of Guernsey, and we are doing them a terrible disservice.
The only way to reverse this trajectory is to urgently progress the TEP. Not in a year or two, not after another review, not after yet more postponements.
We plead with you individually and collectively, to take responsibility and find a way of giving the TEP a green light this week, not next month or next year.
It will take years to repair the damage already done we must not delay any further.
Please, put aside personality politics and come together to make this happen.
Please show us this is possible on such a significant issue as this.
GBTEA
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