Government - National Financial maladministration, bribes, corruption, fraud and related issue Return to the National Government list Delivering governance Overt corruption It is interesting to observe the reaction of officials when the Special Schools management is described as bribery, corruption and fraud. There is a sudden deafness on the part of the official and an attempt to engage some displacement activity or topic. The European Commission, whose job it is to make sure Central European accession governments are not corrupt has purposely not reported this issue in contravention of its duties. Knowing misuse of normative funding The issue is very simple. Since the early mid 1990s devolved local goverments have be required to make requests for normative funding. That is the funding paid from central government to local authorities. The normal process is the issuance by the local authority of a proforma list of items of expenditure and estimates of the funding required. Governments then discuss this, agree and then transfer the funding. Within certain limits, local authorities can spend the transferred funds on activities other than those set out in the proforma proposal. The corruption sets in where the central government changes the proforma justification for funding for Special Schools to a defacto enforcement of normal children into such establishments as a basis for segregation and educational denial. The government does this by only paying a section of the normative funding on condition that the local authorities go through this macbre process. This is a bribe and it constitutes corruption. To ensure that the "paper work" surrounding this "process" is "adequate", like the Special Schools in the Third Reich, government paid "psychologists" are used to classify normal Roma children as in need of segregation and educational denial. They don't in fact state that, they "recommend" sending the child into the Special School, but the defacto outcome is segregated educational denial with no hope of passing back into the normal school system. Local school staff inform these "psycholists" how many Roma children are of school entry age, so as to get the numbers "right" and maximise fund transfers. On occasions where teachers have been informed that most children in the Special school are of normal intelligence the response is invariably that, "we cant put them in the normal school, because we would lose the money!". In other words the central government bribe is effective. That is, corruption drives this system. The European Commission, whose job it is to report any such corruption and fraud, within accession government administrations, has knowlingly ignored this massive financial and human rights scandal worth around Euro 300m each year in the Czech Republic, Hungary and Slovakia.