by Chris Rogers | 24 Jan 2014 | Outsourcing
The Public Accounts Committee has found that public sector organisations are spending millions on “special severance payments”. Margaret Hodge MP, Chair of the Commons Public Accounts Committee, has expressed deep concern over the use of confidentiality clauses in...
by Chris Rogers | 24 Jan 2014 | Uncategorized
Macmillan Cancer Support has claimed that older cancer patients are being “written off” because of their age. The cancer charity has said some patients were being deemed as too old for treatment and were not assessed on their overall fitness. Research from...
by Chris Rogers | 23 Jan 2014 | Welfare
In a speech to mark the 10-year anniversary of the Centre for Social Justice thinktank, Iain Duncan Smith claimed that the Government’s reforms to the welfare system stand in the tradition of great Tory reformers such as Wilberforce and Shaftesbury. The Work and...
by Chris Rogers | 23 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The latest school league tables show that more of England’s secondary schools are meeting baseline government targets on GCSEs. A total of 154 state-funded schools out of about 3,200 are classed as under-performing – 61 fewer than last year. Schools are...
by Chris Rogers | 23 Jan 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Labour Peer and former Schools Minister Lord Adonis has claimed that up to 100 independent schools are set to enter the state sector within the next decade. Lord Adonis, President of the Independent Academies Association, said that this was due to the Government’s...
