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UK – What boundaries separate Standards on Education and Justice?

13 12 2009 Ed Balls announces tighter changes to his Computer Database paedophile Vetting and Barring Scheme (VBS) after National Anger forced him to seek further official backing towards his intentions that anyone having any connections to a child(ren) be registered because...

UK – Failure on Standards

News 30 11 2009: Self declaration by Trusts on standards. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) says that the figures provided by the Dr Foster organisation are measuring different aspects to the methodology criteria used by the CQC however also pointing out that each trust makes...

UK – Failure on Standards

News 30 11 2009: Self declaration by Trusts on standards. The Care Quality Commission (CQC) says that the figures provided by the Dr Foster organisation are measuring different aspects to the methodology criteria used by the CQC however also pointing out that each trust makes...

Crown Prosecution Service fails on paper

News 29 11 2009 : Judges throw out cases because of delays in Crown Prosecution Service paperwork. According to Freedom of Information Act figures some 4,000 suspects failed to appear before magistrates because the CPS did not get their files ready in time. To calls for...

UK - LITIGATION AGAINST SCHOOLS A REAL THREAT?

News 18 11 2009: Litigation against Schools a real threat?. Unveiled in the Queen's Speech was a New Education Bill to which a another New Ombudsman’s position be created as a set of pupil and parent guarantees be launched. But as the Association of School and College...

Bad news gets good readership

The problem is that some times news stories a hyped to gain readership, I wonder why readers love doom and gloom, especially within a recession that’s recovering.   Human being tend to think the worst there...

The end of UK middle class benefits in the UK?

News 22 10 2009: Call to end middle class benefits. A think-tan named “Reform” says payments including maternity pay, child benefit, the winter fuel allowance and TV licences for the elderly could be scrapped to avoid higher taxes. It says that the <?xml:namespace...

The end of UK middle class benefits in the UK?

News 22 10 2009: Call to end middle class benefits. A think-tan named “Reform” says payments including maternity pay, child benefit, the winter fuel allowance and TV licences for the elderly could be scrapped to avoid higher taxes. It says that the UK spends some £31bn...

Timeline - UK education

News 2009 : To save on Public Expenditure the UK Gov now accepts that Schools should regulate themselves!. Opinion: At every New UK Pre-Political Election the theme remains the same – Changes to Education, changes to Health, changes to the Law/Justice System; about the...

PM Blair as the EU President – Setting newer Standards.

Mr Blair felt an urge to resign his position as the PM however the path that he laid lead the Nation into a conflict while creating inner battling on home soil as to change and competition and where people themselves are not people anymore but walking ATM’s for the...

UK- MP’s expenses again in question

News 16 10 2009: MP to repay £100,000 expenses. The Daily Telegraph disclosed yesterday that an MP had channeled some £105,500 of his office and staffing allowances to a business to which he and his girlfriend were the only partners and which apparently was not publically...

UK Identity as to its own Educational System undermined

News 15 10 2009: School exams data to be published Ministers under the “National Challenge initiative”, announced last year, demand that at least 30% of pupils at every school get five A*-C grades, including English and maths, by 2011. The Department for Children,...

Complaints against Police in England/Wales at 31,259 (2008/2009)

News 24 09 2009: The Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC) has announced that 31,259 complaints were made against the Police in England and Wales (2008/09) which amounts to more than 600 complaints every week. Of those “one in every four” was for "neglect of...

Pressure mounts on Baroness Scotland

News 23 09 2009 Pressure mounts on Baroness Scotland Attorney General Baroness Scotland was fined £5,000 on Tuesday after it emerged that she had employed a Tongan housekeeper who had no right to work in the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />UK. Labour MP Stephen...

Senator Limmer -MN Citizens Seek Judicial Reform & Accountability

"Demonstrating his commitment and loyalty to his Constituents and all Minnesota Citizens, Senator Warren Limmer (R) MN District 32, met this past Friday with 3 Minnesota Citizens representing a coalition of individuals and groups concerned with the need for reform and...

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