by Sam | 4 Sep 2014 | Education & Children's Services, General Election 2015, Politics
This week the majority of schools in England and Wales will return from recess, while MPs will also return to Westminster to get in stuck into a Parliamentary cycle that will be dominated by the looming General Election. So naturally ideas to fill the respective...
by Sam | 4 Sep 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
In the report of its Commission on Health and Social Care, the health think tank The King’s Fund has called for a single, ring-fenced budget for the NHS and social care, with a single commissioner for local services., rejecting new NHS charges and private...
by Sam | 1 Sep 2014 | General Election 2015, Politics
All the talk over the summer has been that the Labour Party will look to make its poll lead on trust in leadership of the NHS central to its campaign for next year’s General Election, and reports in the Financial Times (£) at the weekend have suggested that the...
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 | 20 Jun 2014 | Politics, Welfare
This week, the Institute for Public Policy Research (IPPR) published its report The Condition of Britain: Strategies for social renewal which puts forward a new agenda for state and social policy and spending. The report, which focuses largely on welfare, makes more...
