by Sam | 20 Aug 2014 | Children and Families
Care Minister Norman Lamb has told the BBC that mental health services for children and young people are “stuck in the dark ages” and has reiterated his commitment to establish a taskforce to look at ways of improving the way the services are organised and...
by Sam | 19 Aug 2014 | Justice
Justice Secretary Chris Grayling has denied there is a crisis in British prisons. Grayling acknowledged that prisons in England and Wales face problems with violence, suicides and staff shortages but said outright there is “not a crisis in our prisons”. It comes as a...
by Sam | 19 Aug 2014 | Health
Nick Clegg is at risk of being challenged by party rebels at the upcoming Liberal Democrat conference. It’s a sentence that’s been used before over the last five years, during which Lib Dem activists uncomfortable with the direction of Coalition policy, and the role...
by Sam | 19 Aug 2014 | Data
The BBC reports that The number of days lost through stress-related sickness has risen by 70% among East of England public sector workers over five years, the BBC has found. The days lost through sickness are costing public services millions of pounds a year. Unions...
by Sam | 19 Aug 2014 | Data, Politics
A report on the Major Projects Authority (MPA) by the Public Accounts Select Committee (PAC) has raised concerns that too much information is still withheld in the organisation’s annual reports, with particular attention paid to the recent award of a...
