by Chris Rogers | 8 Jul 2016 | European Union, Politics
As the saying goes, a week is a long time in politics. And a fortnight is a lifetime. Two weeks ago, the UK woke to a new reality that would be outside the European Union. It marked the beginning of David Cameron’s long goodbye, and sounded the starting pistol on a...
by Chris Rogers | 18 May 2016 | Politics, Public Sector, Whitehouse News
Today’s Queens Speech ushers in the biggest shake-up of prison services since Victorian times as governors of six prisons – including HMP Wandsworth, Britain’s largest – are handed new control over budgets and services. At the heart of the reform programme is a...
by Chris Rogers | 5 May 2016 | Public Sector, Welfare, Whitehouse News
Political Consultant Jack Taylor has written for the New Statesman on Michael’s Gove’s reform of prison education. To read Jack’s article, please click here.
by Chris Rogers | 28 Apr 2016 | Justice, Whitehouse News
Nearly three quarters of Britons (72 percent) agree increased investment in prison education and training is worthwhile if crime rates fall in the long term, but more than half (55 percent) believe rehabilitation is ineffective in preventing repeat offences, according...
by Sam | 15 Aug 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Was yesterday a bit of a mixed day for Michael Gove? On the one hand, he saw the fruits of his labours with the publication of A-level pass rates; on the other he didn’t learn of the results while sat in his now former office in the Department for Education, having...
