by Sam | 11 Apr 2014 | Education & Children's Services
The new Schools Commissioner Frank Green has published a letter to academies that confirms that the Government will be introducing a long-awaited “middle tier” of academy regulation. The proposals align with those leaked to the Guardian earlier this year about the...
by Sam | 10 Apr 2014 | Uncategorized
Rethink Mental Illness has published a new report with the London School of Economics which has found that more cases of psychosis and schizophrenia now end up in hospital rather than being treated in the community. The report said it costs on average £13 a day to...
by Sam | 9 Apr 2014 | Children and Families, Education & Children's Services, Local Government
Ofsted has claimed that young people in local authority care are too often being moved to children’s homes and foster places far from their home communities. The regulator said looked-after children face serious problems with education and health care because...
by Sam | 9 Apr 2014 | Education & Children's Services
Education Secretary Michael Gove has announced that A-levels and GCSEs in arts subjects in England, such as history and geography, are to be made more “rigorous and demanding.” They will be taught from September 2016, alongside changes to A-levels in RE...
by Sam | 8 Apr 2014 | Economy
A survey of 400 job agencies by professional services firm KPMG and the Recruitment and Employment Confederation has found that job vacancies have continued to increase. Vacancies were at a near 15-year high in March, however, candidates with the required skills are...
