by Sam | 11 Mar 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Nick Clegg’s free school meals scheme “just wasn’t thought through properly”, said the vice-president of the National Association of Head Teachers. The NAHT’s Gail Larkin said the “policy was a nice soundbite and took us all by...
by Sam | 10 Mar 2014 | Uncategorized
George Osborne will likely have been spluttering into his cornflakes on Friday. Not at the news the Financial Times has duplicated the models of the Office of Budget Responsibility. But at the FT’s conclusion that there is a £20 billion black hole in the public...
by Sam | 10 Mar 2014 | Uncategorized
It’s not the initial problem that will kill you. It’s always the cover up. To be fair, that statement isn’t always true. Doing something egregiously negligent or cataclysmically stupid will almost always lead to trouble. But there is a lot of truth in the statement...
by Sam | 10 Mar 2014 | Uncategorized
This week’s final stages of the Care Bill in the House of Commons is likely to see a cross-party revolt over plans to give the Health Secretary and officials he directly appoint (the ‘Trust Special Administrator’) power to direct changes to, or...
by Sam | 10 Mar 2014 | Employment, General Election 2015, Politics, Welfare
Shadow Chancellor Ed Balls will deliver a speech tonight in which he will reaffirm the Labour’s ‘Compulsory Jobs Guarantee’ will last for the entirety of the next Parliament, following reports that it may only be in place for 12 months. The scheme, a...
