STANDARDS RISING IN EARLY EDUCATION BUT POOR CHILDREN MISSING OUT

Abstracts: July 13th, 2015

Standards in early education are improving but the attainment gap facing disadvantaged children is not changing.

Early education has never been stronger with 85 per cent of early years settings now judged good or outstanding, the Ofsted Early Years Annual Report 2015 reveals today.

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WATCHDOG CRITICISES INSPECTORATES FOR GO IT ALONE APPROACH

Abstracts: June 17th, 2015

An examination by the National Audit Office of inspectorates in the home affairs and justice sector has revealed a failure to link findings across inspectorate boundaries and an unhelpful independent approach to training.

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RURAL BROADBAND PROGRESS

Abstracts: April 8th, 2015

This report describes progress in installing rural broadband and responds to criticisms relating to the cost of the project.

The report from Broadband Delivery UK, a unit within the Department for Culture, Media & Sport, predicts that the initial Phase 1 target of extending superfast broadband to 90% of premises in the UK by December 2016 will be achieved early in 2016. Phase 2 of the programme is on course to reach 95% of premises by 2017.

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COUNCILS NOT PLUGGED IN TO COMMUNITY ENERGY POLICY

Abstracts: January 14th, 2015

Councils are often being given the cold shoulder in Government discussions about community energy policy, a team of Sheffield Hallam academics has claimed.

The team from the Centre for Regional Economic and Social Research say Government is often switched-off when it comes to how local authorities can support community energy policy – where communities work together to either generate energy or to collectively reduce the amount of energy they use.

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DEVELOPERS FAILING TO USE BROWNFIELD LAND

Abstracts: November 28th, 2014

There’s enough brownfield land to build more than one million homes across England with new analysis revealing that a quarter of it is owned by councils. Developers are reluctant to use brownfield land because of higher development costs.

In London, a massive 40 percent of brownfield land with potential to build on is owned by councils, which will cause questions to be asked of planning chiefs and politicians who have constantly vowed to speed up development on these sites.

A new report by Daniel Watney, an independent property consultancy, has highlighted over 23,000 ha of brownfield land in England, with over 10,000 hectares suitable for housing.
Nationally, the sites identified have the potential capacity for over 460,000 homes. 25% of these homes are on brownfield land owned by the public sector – with enough space for nearly 120,000 homes.

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GETTING READY FOR AGEING

Abstracts: October 14th, 2014

The Ready For Ageing Alliance has called on the Government to act now to prevent a huge gap in care for the elderly over the next twenty years.

The Ready For Ageing Alliance is made up of representatives from specialist organisations including Age UK, Alzheimer’s Society, Anchor and Carers UK.

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EMPLOYING MIGRANT WORKERS HELPS TO GROW BUSINESSES

Abstracts: October 1st, 2014

Employers who’ve turned to EU migrants to fill vacancies in recent years say they’ve done so because these recruits have brought the experience and commitment needed to support growth. This is a major conclusion from research by the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

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FORGING FUTURES

Abstracts: September 23rd, 2014

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This report from the UK Commission for Employment and Skills, describes how employers and universities are working together to build pathways to the highly skilled jobs crucial to the UK’s economic future.

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COMMISSION ON RESIDENTIAL CARE

Abstracts: September 17th, 2014

The Demos report on the Commission on Residential Care calls for
a housing with care sector fit for the twenty-first century.

The objectives of the Commission were to create a vision of ‘housing with care’, not bound by existing definitions and
to set out how the existing offer could change to deliver this vision, across financial, operational, governance and cultural aspects of care.

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UNDERSTANDING TROUBLED FAMILIES

Abstracts: August 13th, 2014

This report from the Department for Communities describes progress of the troubled families programme, the challenges being addressed and the insights gained into the underlying issues.

Troubled families are families who both have problems and often cause problems – where children are truanting or excluded, where there is youth crime or anti-social behaviour and where parents are not working. They also tend to have other problems including domestic violence or drug or alcohol abuse.

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