Poor families in rural areas are missing out on services that families in towns and cities take for granted, including primary healthcare, continuing education, childcare and employment. The Commission for Rural Communities, the Government’s adviser on rural affairs, has called for action.
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This publication from the think tank Localis suggests that councils should set self-imposed targets to reduce expenditure by around 20 per cent by 2011. They are urged to reassess their priorities against cost and innovate if they are to achieve much needed expenditure reductions.
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Councils are due to take over responsibility for learning and training of 17-19 year olds from the Learning and Skills Council in April 2010. Plans just published show how councils will take the lead and how they will be supported.
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The social housing watchdog, the Tenant Services Authority, is to set up a new action squad to work with landlords on the ground to tackle anti-social behaviour.
The squad, which will start work early next year, will help landlords improve their services to effectively tackle anti-social behaviour. It will include experienced staff from the front line seconded into the Authority to share their expertise with landlords.
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The Audit Commission wants councils and the NHS to move away from concentrating on the mechanics of joint financing and the processes of partnership and instead look at how their joint funding can improve people’s lives.
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Teachers are warning today that England’s poorest children still underperform in relation to their more affluent peers. They are urging policy makers to apply the principles the best of them use to be effective in the classroom to every level of the education system.
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A new Ofsted report looks at the factors needed for success in special schools. The report highlights 12 outstanding schools judged to have excelled at providing for vulnerable children and young people and, Ofsted says, presents a challenge to other special and mainstream schools.
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The first twenty projects, designed by NHS staff to improve patient care have been unveiled. All frontline staff in Primary Care Trusts can set up a social enterprise to improve their services under the “right to request” scheme and the first wave of projects cover services for homeless people, children and patients with mental health problems.
Read more on NHS STAFF GET GO AHEAD FOR SOCIAL ENTERPRISES TO DELIVER SERVICES…
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