Research shows how tough prison can be on families but Sharon Berry's charity, Storybook Dads, has gone a long way towards bringing inmates and their children closer together. Joseph McHugh reports
Books not Asbos are being used by a pioneering Edinburgh community library to challenge young people's antisocial behaviour and transform lives. Judy Hirst met the staff at Sighthill, who are...
Transforming a failing school into an institution that includes and motivates all its pupils is a major challenge, but one that former footballer David Seddon relished when he took on Baxter College...
As all the parties compete for a fresh image, the LibDems have taken a lead by appointing England's youngest MP as a top Treasury spokeswoman. Vivienne Russell talked to her
The past four decades have produced major technological, medical and engineering advances but have failed dismally to reform local government finance. Sarah Wood says this time there must be change...
The sponsor of three of the government's flagship academies has hit back at suggestions that wealthy individuals could make more of a difference to children's lives by channelling their money into...
As the axe falls on thousands of frontline NHS posts, the government faces a huge row over the impact on clinical care. Seamus Ward visits a health trust about to shed 1,200 posts and hears both...
Ministers should explore new ways of using individuals' assets, such as housing and other inheritances, to help fund future welfare reforms, a leading think-tank has claimed.
A US study into the educational attainment of mothers and their children could have 'important implications' for UK schools policy, according to the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
A tool for local economic regeneration or an antisocial licence to print money? As competition hots up in the bidding war for the UK's first 'super-casino', Peter Hetherington talks to the councils...
The failure of List 99 to stop paedophiles working with children shocked parents and teachers and nearly did for the career of Education Secretary Ruth Kelly. Phil Revell asks whether the...
Got a problem that needs sorting? You could do worse than ask the senior Cabinet Office minister in charge of most things. Mark Conrad talks to the amiable all-rounder
The FE white paper rightly recognises that adults and young people have different learning needs. But more needs to be done to provide adult learners with greater choice and lighter-touch planning
Pensions experts have attacked leaked government proposals for life insurance firms to manage billions of pounds of retirement assets as part of a potential compromise over the national savings...
Primary school pupils could be measured against individual development targets under plans to boost social mobility being considered by the Cabinet Office, Public Finance has learnt.
Senior civil servants this week threatened to launch a series of equal pay tribunals following what they described as a 'depressing' 2006 settlement that does not address the two-tier pay regime...
Schools and dental services are to be the prime beneficiaries of the extra £45m granted to the Welsh Assembly government in Chancellor Gordon Brown's budget.
The Comprehensive Spending Review 2007 must prioritise anti-child poverty investment if ministers are to hit their targets on the issue, a new report claims.
