Archives for October 26th, 1999

PLANS FOR LEARNING SUPPORT ASSISTANTS GET BACKING

Headlines, PublicNet: 26 October, 1999

Plans to recruit a further 20,000 learning support assistants by 2002 are backed by a research report. Researchers found that where assistants had clearly defined roles and planned lessons with teachers in the Literacy Hour, they helped pupils become independent learners. The research report shows how head teachers and local education authorities can effectively manage learning assistants so that they motivate pupils and help in raising standards.It is proposed that learning assistants should have a professional status and a unified career structure. A national framework of training and qualification is being developed.

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BENEFIT FRAUD GOES DOWN

Headlines, PublicNet: 26 October, 1999

The Benefits Agency and local councils are striving to reduce benefit fraud by tightening procedures and introducing new technology. So far there is little to show for their efforts. Meanwhile the Government Statistical Service has cut the annual fraud bill by some 50m pounds after revisiting earlier calculations. The importance of this revised base line figure for fraud is that this is one of the targets in the Public Service Agreement between the Benefits Agency and the Treasury.What has emerged from the Government Statistical Service statement is that it is not possible to place the same reliance on figures of fraud as it is, for example, on the size of hospital waiting lists. Earlier in the year the Audit Commission published a figure for benefit fraud some 100m pounds below the latest estimate.

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