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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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10 Jan 02
The Local Government Association has attacked the recent local government finance settlement for ignoring the increased demands being made on councils over personal social services.
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10 Jan 02
Education leaders have welcomed plans to 'remodel' the teaching profession by giving teachers more time to prepare and plan their lessons.
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13 Dec 01
The Scottish Executive has been accused of 'massaging figures' after it announced an 11% grant increase for local authorities.
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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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