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18 Nov 99
Two senior government ministers have set out to find a cure for the plague of form-filling and local government is due to be one of the chief beneficiaries.
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18 Nov 99
An improvement agency covering the whole of the public sector in Scotland could be set up, following the publication next month of a report by the Best Value Taskforce.
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18 Nov 99
The Local Government Association has accused education minister Estelle Morris of 'scaremongering' after she warned that a further 15 local authorities might have their services privatised in a drive...
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11 Nov 99
Home Secretary Jack Straw has been forced to go back to the drawing board after it emerged that his draft Freedom of Information Bill contravened international agreements on the environment.
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11 Nov 99
The message from Liverpool this week was that the city of Derek Hatton, the Militant Tendency and local government anarchy is finally dead.
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4 Nov 99
Ofsted will have no real difficulty in respect of the influx of private sector firms running schools, chief inspector Chris Woodhead said this week.
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21 Oct 99
Last weekend, the European Union made its first attempt to develop 'an area of freedom, security and justice'. EU leaders gathered at a special summit in Tampere, Finland, to commit to a common...
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16 Sep 99
Scotland's new auditor general wants water authorities to lose the freedom to appoint their own auditors.
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16 Sep 99
Housing could lose out to other local authority services once all council capital allocations are thrown into a single pot, according to an expert on housing finance.
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2 Sep 99
Local government minister Hilary Armstrong has announced two new business-oriented appointments to the Audit Commission.
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26 Aug 99
Teachers' unions in Scotland are set to reject a pay offer worth nearly 15% over three years.
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12 Aug 99
In another age, there were people known as Kremlinologists. These experts would be wheeled out on British television and radio to discuss the significance of every minor change in personnel made to...
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22 Jul 99
Liverpool's local education authority is being pushed into privatising most of its services without being allowed to consider the alternatives, ministers were told this week.
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22 Jul 99
A central government crackdown that will allow greater ministerial intervention into failing schools, councils and police authorities was formally outlined this week.
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15 Jul 99
The government is to offer financial incentives to keep 16 to 18-year-olds in education and training as part of a package to stem 'a lost generation' of youngsters.
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15 Jul 99
The government is to fund its proposed expansion of further education through more use of the Private Finance Initiative in the sixth-form sector, Chief Secretary to the Treasury Alan Milburn said...
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17 Jun 99
Michael Bichard, permanent secretary to the Department for Education and Employment, has been created a Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
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17 Jun 99
They were trumpeted as the end of an iniquitous internal market in health.
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10 Jun 99
CIPFA is about to announce major changes to its professional qualification.
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10 Jun 99
Training and Enterprise Councils face abolition in their present form, under government proposals to be published at the end of the month.
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3 Jun 99
Local Education Authorities found themselves in the government's sights again this week when Prime Minister Tony Blair stepped up the attack on spending on schools.
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27 May 99
Smokers and homeless people are being targeted as part of a drive to improve the health of some of the poorest areas in England.
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27 May 99
The government has admitted that half this year's funding increase for education will be swallowed up by the teachers' pay rise, leaving much less than expected for other improvements.
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20 May 99
Ministers announced this week that they are looking for 40 more councils to apply for Beacon status.
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20 May 99
The Improvement and Development Agency is to lead the fightback against the government's privatisation agenda for schools by creating its own 'hit squads' for local education authorities.
18 Nov 99Two senior government ministers have set out to find a cure for the plague of form-filling and local government is due to be one of the chief beneficiaries.
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