by Sam | 13 Mar 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s been reported that a study by University College London and the University of Oxford has claimed that home care visits are of ‘no proven benefit’ to elderly, after they found that pensioners who receive such visits do not live longer or have more independent...
by Sam | 13 Mar 2014 | Employment, Outsourcing, Politics, Welfare
Channel 4 news has run a report on an internal analysis of the Work Programme completed last September, and allegedly blocked for publication by Ministers, which found that only 23% of Work Programme providers believed that the programme was either ‘somewhat’ or...
by Sam | 12 Mar 2014 | Uncategorized
International relations nerds must be wondering whatever happened to Democratic Peace Theory. For the uninitiated, this is the simple idea that democracies tend not to go to war with one another and so the best way to solve global conflict is to ensure that as many...
by Sam | 12 Mar 2014 | Health, Public Sector
58 votes. That was what won the day for Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt – giving him new powers to shut down local hospitals and sparing him the potential future embarrassment of his opponents challenging his decisions through the courts. By passing an amendment to the...
by Sam | 12 Mar 2014 | Outsourcing, Politics
The Secretary of State for Justice Chris Grayling has released a Written Ministerial Statement announcing that security firm G4S has agreed to reimburse the Ministry £108.9m plus VAT for overpayments as part of the contract to provide electronic tagging to offenders....
