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19 Dec 02
The Scottish Executive has either met or is set to achieve 92% of its targets, it claims in a report, Recording our achievements.
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19 Dec 02
Universities need to do more to widen access to students from poorer backgrounds, says Education Secretary Charles Clarke.
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5 Dec 02
Failure to run proper checks on the £4.7bn of tax credits paid out each year is leaving 'significant gaps in the control over public funds', according to the Commons' Public Accounts Committee.
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28 Nov 02
The teaching of children with special education needs (SEN) varies widely and with 'much inequity', according to the Audit Commission.
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31 Oct 02
While ballot frenzy hit London Labour Party ranks this week with the closing round to choose its mayoral candidate for the 2004 elections, the Liberal Democrats admitted that they had no interested...
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31 Oct 02
Schools could soon be hosting health and social services, citizens' advice bureaux and even post offices under a pilot scheme to extend their use in the community.
Schools minister Cathy Ashton...
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24 Oct 02
The Audit Commission will not take into account local authorities' financial resources or levels of deprivation when grading them under the Comprehensive Performance Assessment, it has confirmed....
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17 Oct 02
The Local Government Association has condemned the government's plans to fine councils that delay patients' discharge from hospital as a 'spectacular own goal' that could cost some social services...
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26 Sep 02
Estelle Morris's political prospects had been looking so promising. Popular with teachers and the public alike, it seemed a certainty that she would be a long-standing and well-liked education...
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19 Sep 02
NHS dentistry must be overhauled as it wastes £158m each year and fails to serve those who need it most, the Audit Commission said this week.
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12 Sep 02
The Home Office has parachuted a hit squad into the crisis-hit Criminal Records Bureau amid warnings that the delays in criminal checks could last into next year.
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5 Sep 02
The NHS in England is to get a further £10m to develop intensive care facilities for critically ill children, health minister Jacqui Smith announced this week.
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5 Sep 02
Local authority leaders are lobbying to keep child protection services firmly in the grip of local communities and councils, rather than under a centrally controlled child protection agency.
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5 Sep 02
Unions and local education authorities are demanding compensation for schools as thousands are closing classrooms and using supply teachers after the Criminal Records Bureau failed to clear its...
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25 Jul 02
A cross-party report has called for the government to support 'pioneering local initiatives' as well as more realistic funding to secure the future of social care.
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18 Jul 02
Whitehall departments that benefited from Gordon Brown's largesse in Monday's long-awaited Spending Review will be expected to meet 'demanding' national targets.
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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'.
19 Dec 02The Scottish Executive has either met or is set to achieve 92% of its targets, it claims in a report, Recording our achievements.
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