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20 May 99
Critics of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) have leapt on a National Audit Office report criticising the first major NHS hospital built under the policy.
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20 May 99
Local authorities in the north, the Midlands and Scotland will now be expected to absorb 20,000 or more refugees from the Kosovo war, it was revealed this week.
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13 May 99
A strong impetus has been given to private sector management of state schools by publication of a government list of selected consultancies that will be permitted to bid for services mismanaged by...
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29 Apr 99
On May 6, the local council elections in England, Wales and Scotland will be an important test of the state of the parties.
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15 Apr 99
The first 21 projects in the government's £80m Sure Start programme have been given the green light and are expected to provide extra services to 18,000 disadvantaged children four years old and...
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15 Apr 99
Serious financial irregularities at a further education college in Cheshire could be occurring in colleges across the country, the National Audit Office warned this week.
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8 Apr 99
The government is pressing ahead with funding changes for supported and sheltered housing despite objections from housing associations.
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8 Apr 99
The government has moved to defuse the row with the teaching unions over its plans to reform teachers' pay.
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29 Oct 98
School standards minister Estelle Morris has announced a £130m package of measures to boost the recruitment of secondary teachers. This includes a £5,000 incentive for students training for a Post...
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29 Oct 98
Two-thirds of a sample of government construction projects worth £500m in total were completed over budget and three-quarters went beyond deadline, according to an analysis carried out for the...
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8 Oct 98
Durham University has outsourced its information technology services in the first such Private Finance Initiative (PFI) scheme in higher education. The contract covers the university's IT systems for...
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1 Oct 98
More than £1m has been received by the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL) in compensation for 46 of its members who were encouraged to leave the Teachers' Pension Scheme for private pensions.
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24 Sep 98
Three North Yorkshire local authorities are setting up a combined internal audit service as part of the latest phase in the government's best value initiative.
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24 Sep 98
There has been a mixed reaction to the government's decision to transfer £1bn of education funding from local authorities to schools. The change, announced on Wednesday, is part of the trend to...
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10 Sep 98
Local government education chiefs are to propose establishing a new body to look at the lessons learned from the government's Education Action Zones.
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10 Sep 98
The price to stop the teacher recruitment crisis was this week put at a billion pounds.
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10 Sep 98
The London borough of Hackney in conjunction with the London Diocesan Board for Schools has become the first council in the country to use a private company to help run one of its failing schools.
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3 Sep 98
The government has cleared the way for an expansion of the Private Finance Initiative into quangos and other non-departmental public bodies (NDPBs).
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13 Aug 98
The government's success in driving forward the Private Finance Initiative in the health sector was underlined this week with the signing of two further large contracts worth around £190m.
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30 Jul 98
The ministerial reshuffle led to several changes in the Department of the Environment, Transport and the Regions (DETR).
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30 Jul 98
Further education colleges look set to reach agreement with the largest lecturers' union on national pay and conditions after five years of failed negotiations.
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30 Jul 98
Labour is coming under renewed pressure to clarify its welfare reform policies after Frank Field's attack on Gordon Brown in the Commons this week.
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23 Jul 98
Local government minister Hilary Armstrong has urged councils to refurbish rather than build new homes with the new money from the Comprehensive Spending Review.
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16 Jul 98
Nurses, midwives and non-clinical NHS staff could be offered large pay increases soon, despite Gordon Brown's insistence that he will keep the lid on public sector pay.
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16 Jul 98
The Comprehensive Spending Review underlines the government's commitment to continue along the path of the Private Finance Initiative and Public Private Partnerships (PPPs).
20 May 99Critics of the Private Finance Initiative (PFI) have leapt on a National Audit Office report criticising the first major NHS hospital built under the policy.
13 Aug 98The government's success in driving forward the Private Finance Initiative in the health sector was underlined this week with the signing of two further large contracts worth around £190m.
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