News - 2007

1419 reforms require better collaboration
£5m Games fund will boost local skillsAn extra £5m is to be spent on training sports coaches, construction workers and other staff ahead of the 2012 Olympic Games in east London.
Abolition of NI school boards delayedNorthern Ireland's five education and library boards have been given a year's stay of execution after ministers decided to delay the creation of their replacement Education and Skills Authority, probably until April 2009.
Academic diplomas offered as A-level alternativeThree new 'academic' diplomas are to be added to the menu of vocational diplomas in what could herald a radical shake-up of the exam system.
Academies admissions called into questionThe political battle over academy schools will intensify next week, when a leading think-tank publishes data indicating that institutions that control their own admissions procedures are increasingly less representative of their local communities.
Academies overspend by average of £3.2mSeventeen of the first 26 academy schools commissioned under the government's controversial programme overspent their agreed capital budgets, the public spending watchdog has revealed.
Academy schools cost up to £7m moreSenior MPs this week criticised the government's flagship academy schools programme for failing to control costs, with almost two-thirds of the first buildings running over budget.
Action needed on diversity in local electionsThe forthcoming Commission for Equality and Human Rights should review political parties' methods of selecting candidates for local elections, according to a think-tank.
Adult social care funding system is unsustainableThe funding system for adult social care is unsustainable and undesirable and should be replaced with an 'Every Older Person Matters' programme, central and local government leaders have said.
Adult social care overhaul must address whole issue of fundingCouncil and social care leaders are warning that the government must use its forthcoming green paper on adult services funding to fundamentally rethink the system.
Adult social care placated by olive branch of a radical rethinkNews that adult social care funding will be frozen in real terms was sweetened slightly by the confirmation that the government will consult on a radical overhaul to the system.
Alexander apologises for Scottish elections fiascoFormer Scottish secretary Douglas Alexander apologised this week after an independent report delivered a damning verdict on the conduct of the Scottish elections, claiming that voters were treated as an 'afterthought'.
Almos given £485m to modernise homesCouncil-owned housing companies are to receive a further £485m to help them to modernise about 55,000 houses and meet the decent homes target.
Almos keen to submit home build bidsCouncil-owned housing companies are lining up to accept a government invitation to build new homes.
Almos qualify for development grantsEight arm's-length management organisations and a further two council-led bids are among 38 new investment partners announced by the Housing Corporation.

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