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18 Jul 02
The Spending Review has confirmed what many expected: large increases in resources for many public services. The Budget had already told us how far the overall spending envelope would grow, and laid...
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4 Jul 02
The biggest capital investment in Northern Ireland since devolution, worth £510m over the next two years, was this week announced by the Executive.
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4 Jul 02
Education Secretary Estelle Morris has unveiled measures to tackle what she believes are the unique problems facing London's schools.
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6 Jun 02
Local authorities are resorting to employing staff before criminal checks are complete while the Criminal Records Bureau has turned to India this week to solve its 30,000 backlog in applications.
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6 Jun 02
Scottish local government leaders have endorsed Jack McConnell's future legislative programme as one that will make a 'real difference to real people'.
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30 May 02
External hit squads could be sent into the worst social services departments if they do not improve by November, the Department of Health confirmed this week.
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23 May 02
Education Secretary Estelle Morris stepped into the crisis at the Criminal Records Bureau this week, granting local education authorities access to interim criminal checks to cut the delays in...
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2 May 02
Schools in England's most crime-ridden areas are being offered their own personal police officers as part of the government's latest initiative to cut down on truancy and anti-social behaviour.
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25 Apr 02
The health secretary has warned nurses that the salary increases expected following the restructuring of the NHS pay system will 'not be a something-for-nothing arrangement'.
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18 Apr 02
Backbench Labour MPs this week raised fears that NHS trusts were unnecessarily selling off millions of pounds worth of property and land to inject much-needed cash into hospital services.
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11 Apr 02
The government is failing to achieve its aim of rescuing more than a million children from the poverty trap, new figures out this week reveal.
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4 Apr 02
Local authorities in Wales have a poor record on employing senior female staff and people from ethnic minorities, while service standards still show huge disparities, according to a compendium of...
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4 Apr 02
Debts of up to £500m inherited by English primary care trusts should be written off by the government, an influential group of NHS professionals has said.
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28 Mar 02
The government and local authorities joined forces this week to target unruly parents in a clampdown on pupil delinquency and violence.
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21 Mar 02
Labour is no closer to ending homelessness after new figures showed another rise in the number of people being housed by English councils in emergency accommodation.
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21 Mar 02
One in four councils has been running education and social services so badly that central government has had to intervene, and more cases could be on the way, according to the Audit Commission.
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21 Mar 02
The normally moderate head teachers are set on a collision course with the government over performance-related pay after deciding to ballot on industrial action in the next week.
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7 Mar 02
Relations between the teaching unions and Education Secretary Estelle Morris reached a new low this week after a bruising public battle left both sides refusing to change their position.
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28 Feb 02
The Local Government Association and ministers are to agree a set of shared priorities for service delivery that will act as a 'coherent framework' governing councils' activities.
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21 Feb 02
Local government representatives have urged the government to tackle the 'grim' state of social care and fill the struggling service's £200m funding gap.
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21 Feb 02
Glasgow contains the three most deprived areas in Britain, according to a study by the Child Poverty Action Group (CPAG) which ranks parliamentary constituencies by their levels of poverty and social...
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14 Feb 02
The NHS must become a 'world-class employer' if it is to deliver the high levels of care demanded by patients, Prime Minister Tony Blair said this week.
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7 Feb 02
Education watchdog Mike Tomlinson praised teachers for improving the quality of education on offer in England's schools as he published his annual report for 2000/01.
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17 Jan 02
The Department of Health must take urgent action to combat obesity in England, the Commons' Public Accounts Committee said this week.
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17 Jan 02
Social work departments in Scotland are making progress in many of their core activities, according to the Accounts Commission.
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