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CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
A spoonful of sugar?
By Cllr Izzi Seccombe | 24 March 2016
After Osborne's announcement of a controversial sugar tax, Cllr Izzi Seccombe explains what counc...
WHITEHALL
Social care reform could 'destabilise' children's services
By Sam Clayden | 23 March 2016
The rush to reform social care could destabilise and fragment children’s services, a prominent ac...
FINANCE
Word on the street
By Ben Page | 22 March 2016
Ipsos MORI's Ben Page examines Osborne's Budget announcements in light of public opinion on devol...
WHITEHALL
Osborne's schools pledge 'misleading'
By Sam Clayden | 22 March 2016
Council chief executives and experts have hit back at chancellor George Osborne’s drive to free s...
WHITEHALL
Labour: £500m academies black hole
By William Eichler | 18 March 2016
The chancellor’s plan to transform every school into an academy faces a £560m funding shortage, a...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Budget 2016: Academy plan will 'not improve standards'
By Sam Clayden | 16 March 2016
Fixating on giving schools independence will not generate improvement in education standards, cou...
WHITEHALL
Academy trusts manifesting 'same weaknesses' as worst performing councils
By Dan Peters | 11 March 2016
Chief inspector of schools, Sir Michael Wilshaw, has warned many multi-academy trusts (MATs) have...
WHITEHALL
Government to cut schools funding for councils
By Jamie Hailstone | 07 March 2016
Local authorities could lose billions of pounds under new plans for a new national schools fundin...
CHILDREN AND YOUNG PEOPLE
Ofsted probes city over unregistered schools
By Thomas Bridge | 04 March 2016
Ofsted’s chief inspector has questioned Bradford MDC’s stance on unregistered schools, after a co...
FINANCE
A lesson for us all
By Mark Rogers | 01 March 2016
Mark Rogers explains how a speech he gave to graduates helped him reflect on the public service v...
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