by Chris Rogers | 13 Nov 2013 | Uncategorized
A NHS Review has called for a two-tier A&E system in England. The review by NHS England suggested the biggest 40 to 70 units – specialising in heart attacks, strokes and trauma – be called major emergency centres. It would leave the remaining 70 to 100...
by Chris Rogers | 7 Nov 2013 | Welfare
MPs on the influential Public Accounts Committee have criticised the Department for Work and Pensions for failures to the Universal Credit Scheme which have cost at least £140 million of public money. MPs also voiced doubts about whether the project can still be fully...
by Chris Rogers | 7 Nov 2013 | Education & Children's Services
The Education Committee has published a report calling on Ofsted to be given powers to inspect organisations that run chains of academies. MPs on the committee called for academy chains should be open to inspection by Ofsted, in the way that local authorities can be...
by Chris Rogers | 5 Nov 2013 | Employment
Government Adviser John Perkins has called for the Government to do more to nurture the engineers of tomorrow amid fears a million jobless youngsters will be written off as a “lost generation”. It’s been reported that British firms are increasingly having to hire from...
by Chris Rogers | 5 Nov 2013 | Education & Children's Services
Baroness Sally Morgan, the chairman of Ofsted, has called for a radical drive to raise standards of early education, including enrolling more children in school-based nurseries. Baroness Morgan said that many deprived children had “low social skills”, poor standards...
