by Sam | 29 Aug 2014 | Children and Families
With the SEND reforms introduced by the Children and Families Act officially becoming law from Monday, the Department for Education has published a guide for local authorities on their responsibilities in regards to the transition to the new system. The guidance...
by Sam | 27 Aug 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The discussion of class sizes continues this week, with new research from the Local Government Association (LGA) released today showing more than three-quarters of councils who responded to an LGA survey did not receive enough Government money to create the extra...
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 | 1 Aug 2014 | Economy
Unfettered population growth fuelled by high levels of immigration could negatively affect living standards in the UK, according to a new report from the Civitas thinktank – a libertarian think tank (in theory). The report, authored by Cambridge University...
by Sam | 1 Aug 2014 | General Election 2015
So earlier this week Shadow Health Secretary Andy Burnham gave what is now an all too familiar diatribe against the terrifying reality that NHS are increasingly awarding contracts to provide services to private firms – companies that devlishly sell services for...
