Social care in crisis
Laura Bradley, a researcher at the Institute for Public Policy Research (ippr), reports on the Southern Cross Healthcare story, and looks at the crisis state of social care.
Public Services
Abbott: Cameron should be straight about his intentions on the NHS
Under the coalition’s plans, the independent regulator Monitor, could have the twin role of promoting competition as well as integration of care.
It’s now official: The government lied when scrapping EMA
The government’s argument for abolishing EMA was blown out of the water as the lead researcher of a key report says it was misrepresented, writes Save EMA’s James Mills.
Ofsted finds little profit in vocational business courses
An Ofsted report found problems in post-16 business studies. They found that students work and teachers’ extending and deepening of their understanding was weak.
Cameron’s pledges on the NHS don’t go far enough
Mr Cameron’s five guarantees to safeguard the NHS neatly sidestepped most of the concerns that medical professionals, Liberal Democrats and many in Labour have.
The marketised core of the government’s universities plan is rotten
David Barclay, president of the Oxford University Student Union, says David Willetts’s plans are rotten to the core, and will teach students the price of everything and value of nothing.
Royal Mail privatisation: Government selling the family silver
With the Royal Mail privatisation bill set to receive royal assent in coming weeks, job cuts show Royal Mail are already under pressure to attract a buyer.
Is Lord Tebbit a Stalinist? Top Tory seems to think so
A Tory MP and backer of Lansley’s NHS bill, given a platform at Conservative Home, has said that those opposing the reforms are tantamount to Stalinists.
Academic super-group are more like intellectual mercenaries
Excellence for all students is what our higher education system should be about; not just for the scions of millionaires, oligarchs and aristocrats.
How Cameron is already undermining his NHS pledges
David Cameron’s NHS pledges reveal coalition insecurities. Some have already been compromised and others represent the antithesis of Lansley’s reforms.