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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'.
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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.
19 Sep 02NHS 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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