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29 Jun 00
Ken Livingstone launched a blistering attack on central government's domineering attitude towards local authorities at the LGA conference.
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22 Jun 00
Local authority officers should publish full reports of executive decisions taken in private, a constitutional expert told the CIPFA conference.
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22 Jun 00
The government has expanded the specialist schools programme and published research showing that such schools are raising standards faster than their mainstream counterparts.
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15 Jun 00
Ken Livingstone has called for the 33 London boroughs to be abolished and replaced with 14 or 15 larger authorities with increased responsibilities, including control of health and transport.
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15 Jun 00
Pressure on doctors to prove their fitness to practise grew this week as the government launched a mandatory early warning scheme to protect patients.
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15 Jun 00
The Local Government Association has set up its own hit squad to establish how education authorities can intervene effectively to turn around failing schools under their control.
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8 Jun 00
Tony Blair breezed back into Downing Street this week after completing his paternity leave with a vow to sort out the care of the elderly.
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8 Jun 00
Teenagers may be offered travel, shopping and restaurant discounts in a bid to encourage them to stay in education after the age of 16.
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8 Jun 00
Embattled National Health Service managers faced another dose of bitter medicine this week as they were accused of being their own worst enemies when it comes to change.
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8 Jun 00
In a move designed to boost public confidence in figures published by the government, an independent Statistics Commission, appointed by Chancellor Gordon Brown, has been set up to scrutinise the...
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8 Jun 00
Tameside local education authority this week received a yellow card from schools' inspectorate Ofsted and was told to put its house in order or face further action.
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1 Jun 00
Asylum seekers must be offered more than just a roof over their heads in the provinces if the government's new dispersal policy is to prove successful, according to an Audit Commission report,...
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1 Jun 00
Chief inspector of schools Chris Woodhead has dismissed calls from a teachers' union leader for an end to the 'Spanish Inquisition' of schools' inspections.
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1 Jun 00
Worcestershire Health Authority has slammed an independent report into its Private Finance Initiative hospital project as 'breathtakingly inaccurate'.
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25 May 00
Lack of autonomy in the classroom and increasing bureaucracy are contributing to soaring stress levels among teachers, with record numbers wanting to leave the profession, according to a report from...
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25 May 00
Government promises to create a simpler funding system for further education are being treated with scepticism by college finance directors.
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25 May 00
The Local Government Association commission examining the school year has heard that redistributing holidays more evenly and having an increased number of shorter terms could cut absence levels among...
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25 May 00
The government looks set to provoke a row with a powerful group of doctors in the run-up to the next General Election by suggesting hospital consultants' private practices should be reined in.
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25 May 00
The quality of Welsh council services varies widely and falls below that of their English counterparts in many areas, the Audit Commission said this week.
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18 May 00
Community psychiatric nurses fear they may be used as 'the stormtroopers of the social risk agenda' if compulsory community health care is introduced.
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18 May 00
Employment minister Margaret Hodge has revealed that the government is to set up four pilot schemes to examine ways of getting ill and disabled people off sickness benefits and back into work.
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18 May 00
The expanded list of companies approved to supply services to failing local education authorities has been criticised by the Local Government Association and the National Union of Teachers.
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11 May 00
Leaders of teaching unions voiced their scepticism about proposals to abandon the three-term school year at a hearing of the commission set up to examine the issue.
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11 May 00
Politics is a cyclical game. Representatives of the party in power at Westminster are always liable to be told to get on their bikes at mid-term local elections.
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11 May 00
Small rural schools should cluster together to stave off closure, the Local Government Association warned this week.
29 Jun 00Ken Livingstone launched a blistering attack on central government's domineering attitude towards local authorities at the LGA conference.
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