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13 Dec 01
Reduced crime and cleaner roads are more important to people in deprived areas than health and education, surveys reveal.
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6 Dec 01
Education and social services are in line for a budget increase of at least 4% in next year's finance settlement for local authorities.
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29 Nov 01
Housing associations are stepping up efforts to defend Muslims against racism following the terrorist attacks in the US on September 11.
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22 Nov 01
NHS managers are flocking to unions in the wake of growing concerns that they are being made unnecessary 'scapegoats' for failures in health, according to the FDA.
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1 Nov 01
Children placed in bed and breakfast accommodation because their family is homeless are missing out on important health checks, the government told local authorities this week.
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25 Oct 01
Vouchers and forced dispersal are putting the health of asylum seekers at serious risk and should be abandoned, doctors said this week.
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4 Oct 01
The Audit Commission's role in auditing the health service comes in for some sharp criticism in a new report published this week.
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27 Sep 01
Public service union Unison has demanded an urgent meeting with health minister Jacqui Smith to discuss the staffing 'crisis' in social services.
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13 Sep 01
A Scottish NHS Trust behind a flagship Private Finance Initiative hospital is threatening to make 200 staff redundant in an attempt to cut costs.
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6 Sep 01
The number of complaints against English councils has reached record levels.
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23 Aug 01
Some 163 children, half of them pre-school age, are living in temporary accommodation and classified as homeless in the Western Health and Social Services Board area of Northern Ireland, according to...
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9 Aug 01
The government's attempts to increase the number of successful adoptions by setting up a national register must not obscure the needs of children, the Association of Directors of Social Services...
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2 Aug 01
The government's relationship with the main public sector unions took another downward turn this week when the teaching union, the NASUWT, said plans to privatise education services were 'dubious'...
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2 Aug 01
Councils and the police can now impose curfews on children as old as 15 if they deem them anti-social, following new laws that came into effect on August 1.
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26 Jul 01
The government got up to its old spinning tricks this week when Education Secretary Estelle Morris re-announced the creation of 45,000 childcare places for deprived neighbourhoods.
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19 Jul 01
This week's damning report into the deaths of children at the Bristol Royal Infirmary is the first of four inquiries into the health service's handling of complaints against doctors.
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12 Jul 01
An £8.5m capital programme to build 22 new children's homes in Northern Ireland has been announced by the province's Health and Social Services Minister, Bairbre de Brún.
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31 May 01
Four out of five head teachers back calls for a two-week school break in October to reduce stress among teachers and pupils, according to research by the Local Government Association.
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24 May 01
A pilot project using Internet technology to educate children who are not attending school has produced impressive results and is set to be rolled out across the country.
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29 Mar 01
The government has announced an extra £11.25m to clock in pupils electronically in an effort to help 500 secondary schools combat truancy.
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22 Mar 01
The Local Government Association has said its proposal to defuse the school crisis by paying teachers overtime for providing cover for absent colleagues will be funded from existing resources.
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1 Feb 01
The most expensive building venture undertaken by English Partnerships, the government's national urban regeneration and development agency, faces its acid test this week when the London Borough of...
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4 Jan 01
A year-long mass vaccination programme that cost £20m has prevented 50 deaths from meningitis C and almost completely eradicated the disease, the Department of Health said this week
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23 Nov 00
Leeds City Council is to provide e-mail and Internet access for its 298 schools through a deal with BT Syncodia Systems, British Telecom's e-business arm.
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23 Nov 00
Ministers have spread most of next year's £2.9bn NHS increase evenly throughout the country, though some cash will be targeted at improving health in Labour's English heartlands.
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