by Chris Rogers | 13 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services, Politics
The BBC has reported that Labour is considering announcing a plan for teachers to be licensed every few years in order to work in England’s schools (Olly from PSI: the evasive language suggests this is very much in testing the water territory). Shadow...
by Chris Rogers | 13 Jan 2014 | Uncategorized
New guidance issued by the NHS Litigation Authority has encouraged NHS staff to be more open with patients and “say sorry” when things go wrong. Speaking to The Daily Telegraph, Health Secretary Jeremy Hunt has stated that he wants to end the “closed...
by Chris Rogers | 13 Jan 2014 | Welfare
Buy-to-let landlords have warned the Government that they could turn potential tenants away or even evict them if they are on housing benefit, amid confusion over whether the benefit will be paid to tenants rather than directly to landlords under the coalition’s...
by Chris Rogers | 10 Jan 2014 | Welfare
More than 33,000 families were claiming over £26,000 a year in benefits before the cap was imposed. According to research thousands of households have had their benefits slashed since the cap was introduced and there have been calls from Conservative MPs to lower the...
by Chris Rogers | 10 Jan 2014 | Economy
According to data from the British Retail Consortium, total sales values were up 1.8% in December from a year earlier. Close to one in five non-food items was bought online last month. There was also a 19.2% growth in internet purchases from a year earlier, the...
