When Morrisons launched its Let's Grow for schools scheme, what was it really thinking?
Yesterday, Paul Carter, a senior Tory councillor, appeared to question the party's "free schools" scheme.
The biggest programme last year, according to the tracker, was the Tesco Computers for Schools scheme.
The couple have become increasingly frustrated in their attempts to provide the services envisaged by the extended schools scheme.
Morris: "We had a great deal of help early on through Elspeth Thompson from the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) as I cheekily applied for their partner schools scheme.
That vile decision deprived children at state schools of probably the most effective scheme devised to guarantee them physical exercise, with only the half-baked Schools Games and an unsatisfactory primary schools scheme offered in compensation.
They will be modelled along the lines of the London Academy of Excellence in Stratford, east London, which was the first sixth form college to be set up under the Government's free schools scheme in September 2012.
Tesco has relaunched its controversial Computers for Schools scheme as Tesco for Schools and Clubs, and claims that last year, vouchers were used to purchase 540,000 items at a cost of £13.4m.
Then, over the weekend, a senior Lib Dem source branded Gove a "zealot" for transferring £400m from the basic need budget to help plug the £800m black hole in the free schools scheme.
The dawn-to-dusk extended schools scheme, launched in 2005, has many strands, but most trumpeted by the government were two promises: to stretch traditional school opening hours, providing crucial childcare for working parents; and to introduce mind-enriching, after-school cultural activities to give disadvantaged children the sort of opportunities taken for granted by their middle-class peers.
Under the coalition government's "free schools" scheme, schools will be funded by the state but run by local people.
