by Sam | 26 Aug 2014 | Education & Children's Services, General Election 2015, Politics
Liberal Democrat Care Minister Norman Lamb has called for drunk people who abuse A&E staff to be given an on-the-spot £50 fine as they are putting a “huge burden” on hospitals, according to The Daily Mail. Lamb went further to say that “it can be...
by Sam | 13 Aug 2014 | Education & Children's Services
In what is a fairly peculiar initiative, an alternative and independent school league table has been launched by a partnership of school leaders associations and an academy chain. The School Performance Tables were launched by United Learning, the Association of...
by Sam | 28 Jul 2014 | General Election 2015
The Whitehouse Consultancy, the specialist political consultancy that hosts PSI, has produced a short research paper which examines the future of the education procurement market in the UK after the next General Election. The way schools do business has changed...
by Sam | 28 Apr 2014 | Children and Families
The Chair of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges has accused the Government of “damaging children’s health” by allowing academies and free schools to opt out of nutritional standards for pupils’ lunches. Professor Terence Stephenson said the...
by Sam | 11 Apr 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The new Schools Commissioner Frank Green has published a letter to academies that confirms that the Government will be introducing a long-awaited “middle tier” of academy regulation. The proposals align with those leaked to the Guardian earlier this year about the...
