by Sam | 31 Jul 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The Government has announced businessman and academy chain trustee David Hoare as the new chair of Ofsted. Hoare, who has over 30 years’ business experience with companies including DX group and Virgin Express, had been a trustee of the Academies Enterprise Trust...
by Sam | 31 Jul 2014 | Politics
Public Finance reports that civil servants at Revenue & Customs will have begun a three-day walkout across the country to protest job cuts. Members of the Public and Commercial Services union are striking to coincide with the deadline for tax credit renewals and a...
by Sam | 31 Jul 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Whitehouse Chairman Chris Whitehouse offers his thoughts on the subject of parents taking their children on holiday during school terms, following Whitehouse’s recent ComRes poll, in his latest article for ConservativeHome. To read Chris’s article, click...
by Sam | 31 Jul 2014 | Uncategorized
In an interview with the Health Service Journal (£), Care Quality Commission (CQC) Chief Executive David Behan has revealed that the Commission would scale back its inspection targets for 2014-2015, due to pressures on the workforce and slow recruitment of high...
by Sam | 31 Jul 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
There is some contention in the media today over whether Prime Minister David Cameron has pledged to raise the threshold for the higher rate of income tax. Cameron said yesterday “I would love to make more promises. I understand the problem with the 40p rate kicking...
