Extract from Queen's Speech debate (Commons) - June 27
The Secretary of State for Education (Justine Greening):...Perhaps more than most Departments, the legislation we need to drive up education standards and opportunity is already in place...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017 08:24
Early sight of oral questions to the Secretary of State for the Home Department - July 3
Lisa Nandy (Wigan): Whether she has held discussions with the independent inquiry into child sexual abuse since the withdrawal of the charity Survivors of Organised and Institutional Abuse from that inquiry...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017 07:40
Sir Peter Lampl responds to the Social Mobility Commission’s ‘Time for change’ report
Responding to the Social Mobility Commission’s ‘Time for change’ report, Sir Peter Lampl, Founder and Chairman of the Sutton Trust and Chairman of the Education Endowment Foundation (EEF), said...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017 00:28
First ever analysis of two decades of efforts to improve social mobility: Lessons for Government
Two decades of government efforts to improve social mobility have failed to deliver enough progress in reducing the gap between Britain’s ‘haves and have nots’, the Social Mobility Commission warns today in a hard-hitting new report...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017 00:01
"Progress is being made delivering the ‘One Mission, One Bank’ strategy" says NAO
Following an increase in its scale and remit, the Bank of England has made good progress under its ‘One Mission, One Bank’ strategy...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017 00:01
HMI Prisons report on HMP Birmingham - availability of drugs affecting safety
The stability of HMP Birmingham was being adversely affected by the high volume of illicit drugs available, said Peter Clarke, Chief Inspector of Prisons...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017 00:01
G4S: “Clear determination” to make progress at Birmingham prison, say inspectors
A report into G4S-managed HM Prison Birmingham published today by independent inspectors says that there is a “clear determination” at the facility to rebuild and make progress after serious disorder in December last year...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017 00:01
UCU response to report on government social mobility failings
Two decades of government efforts to improve social mobility have failed to deliver enough progress in reducing the gap between Britain’s “haves and have nots”, warns a new report released today...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017 00:01
Welcome extra funding does not remove needs, demands and increased costs and difficult decisions in adult social care says ADASS
Despite welcome extra funding and councils protecting and planning to spend more on adult social care budgets...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017 00:01
More needs to be done to improve social mobility, says ATL
Commenting on the report from the Social Mobility Commission, Dr Mary Bousted, general secretary of the Association of Teachers and Lecturers (ATL), said...
Wednesday, 28 June 2017 00:01