Guidance on DCMS Multi-sport grassroots facilities programme
The multi-sport grassroots facilities programme is investing funding to level up facilities across the UK, including in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:35
Tens of millions of pounds of public money used to “prop up” poorly managed academy schools, with potentially excessive levels of pay, say MPs in new report
Around 43% of state-funded schools now operate as academies, educating over half of pupils in England across over 2,700 academy trusts, and the Department for Education (DfE) aims for all state-funded schools to become part of a family of academy trusts...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01
National Audit Office report on The Police Uplift Programme
Government is on course to achieve its target of recruiting 20,000 additional police officers by 2023, according to the National Audit Office (NAO)...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01
Majority of drivers unconvinced that strengthened laws on handheld mobile phone use at the wheel will make the roads safer - RAC
On the day drivers face six penalty points and a £200 fine if they are caught using a handheld phone at the wheel for virtually any reason after a loophole in the law was closed...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01
ASCL responds to PAC report on academy trust finances (re-sent with embargo)
Commenting on the report of the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts (PAC) on the finances of academy trusts, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01
Free school meals: One million more school children could be fed if sign-up process eased, councils urge - LGA
More than a million additional school children could receive free school meals and be entitled to extra support funding if the sign-up process for the scheme was simplified and extended to more families, councils say today...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01
NEU comments on Public Accounts Committee report on Academies
Commenting on Academies Sector Annual Report and Accounts 2019/20, published by the House of Commons Committee of Public Accounts, Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01
NEU comments on LGA call on free school meals
Commenting on the Local Government Association’s call for automatic enrolment of Free School Meals and an expansion of eligibility, Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01
More must be done to ensure those with a learning disability, autism and mental ill health get the care they need
Responding to Care Quality Commission’s progress report on care for people with a learning disability, autistic people and people with mental ill health, the deputy chief executive of NHS Providers, Saffron Cordery said...
Friday, 25 March 2022 00:01
Tenfold expansion in chargepoints by 2030 as Government drives EV revolution
The UK’s charging network has been given a huge boost today as Government unveils plans to support the UK market to reach 300,000 public EV chargepoints by 2030...
Thursday, 24 March 2022 22:30