The Education Secretary has responded to the criticisms about red tape faced by schools, as made by the Local Government Association (see yesterday’s Publicnet: June 1, 2000).In announcing a major re-think of the way the Standards Fund is administered, he has also threatened to clearly separate local education authority and schools budgets.
Archives for June 2nd, 2000
Headlines, PublicNet: 2 June, 2000
Headlines, PublicNet: 2 June, 2000
The new mental health ‘czar’ has given his first indications of priorities. They will be to pull together a fractured service that sees too many patients and their families suffer as a result of discontinuity of care.Other urgent priorities outlined by the National Director of Mental Health, Professor Louis Appleby, concentrate on improving the quality of care to the patient.