by Chris Rogers | 6 Feb 2014 | Economy
A leading economic think tank has found that the cost of living crisis is about to turn around. Analysis for the Institute for Fiscal Studies said there could be room to increase spending or cut taxes soon after the general election next year and still restore the...
by Chris Rogers | 6 Feb 2014 | Children and Families, Education & Children's Services
Michael Gove and George Osborne have announced a £1 million cash boost to train teachers to teach computer coding to children. The Government will provide half of the funding for the scheme, with the remainder to be covered by technology companies such as Google....
by Chris Rogers | 5 Feb 2014 | Welfare
The Department for Work and Pensions have announced anyone wanting to appeal a decision that they are fit to work first has to have all their paperwork looked at again, while receiving no sickness benefits. The Government have said that this “mandatory...
by Chris Rogers | 4 Feb 2014 | Children and Families, Education & Children's Services
Early years provision is both the first and final frontier of education policy, the first chronologically but the final theoretically as, quite understandably, no Government has felt the State should mandate a defined path that all young children should follow as it...
by Chris Rogers | 4 Feb 2014 | Children and Families
Education Minister Liz Truss is writing to every English council suggesting that school nurseries be allowed to extend their opening hours to enable parents to leave toddlers there during the working day. Legislation will be introduced to cut red tape and make it...
