Health Minister John Hutton criticised councillors for failure to fulfil their role as corporate parents for children in care. He made it clear that society has let these children down in the past and that the failures must not be repeated. Councillors have a duty to give high priority to ensuring that children are looked after and receive the best that society can offer. 

Employment Service Direct is a new telephone service that helps to take the hassle out of finding a job. For the price of a local call jobseekers can ring 0845 6060234 and have access to over 300,000 vacancies across the UK. Callers can ask for local or national vacancies. This a much quicker and more convenient way of finding a job because it cuts out the visit to the job centre and the wait in the queue. 

Gosling PAccountancy Age, (UK), Start page: 22 No of pages: 2
Interviews the chairman of the UK Public Accounts Committee (PAC), which reviews public spending and comments on the delivery of government policy. Discusses his intention to focus on the impact of new policies and on value-for-money audits; and his desire to ‘audit public money wherever it goes’, e.g. to contractors.