by Sam | 9 Apr 2014 | Children and Families, Education & Children's Services, Local Government
Ofsted has claimed that young people in local authority care are too often being moved to children’s homes and foster places far from their home communities. The regulator said looked-after children face serious problems with education and health care because...
by Sam | 9 Apr 2014 | Nutrition
Leading specialist food news site Nutraingredients reports on the latest action from the European Specialist Sports Nutrition Alliance, ahead of the London Marathon which is taking place next Sunday. The 40,000 professional and amateur runners that will spill through...
by Sam | 9 Apr 2014 | Uncategorized
That Maria Miller’s attempt to cling on to her Government job brought the Conservative Party into disrepute is beyond argument, but Conservatives can take heart from one aspect of the row over the last few days. Grass roots activists, backbench MPs and even...
by Sam | 9 Apr 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced that A-levels and GCSEs in arts subjects in England, such as history and geography, are to be made more “rigorous and demanding.” They will be taught from September 2016, alongside changes to A-levels in RE...
by Sam | 8 Apr 2014 | Uncategorized
I finished my time working for an MP more or less just as the first Parliamentary expenses scandal hit. Lucky for me: the MP I worked for at the time was marginally caught up in the rumpus – gracing the front page of the Daily Telegraph at one point – and went on to...
