Budget cuts are deeper than Cameron would have you believe
David Cameron’s statement that spending would return to 2006 levels once the budget cuts are over obscure the real contraction in public service spending.
Public Services
More than two-thirds of recipients would leave college if EMA axed
With MPs set to vote on the future of the Education Maintenance Allowance (EMA), a new poll reveals 70 per cent of recipients would leave college if it is axed.
Experts, doctors and commentators turn on health reforms
Experts, doctors and commentators have today turned against David Cameron’s plans to dismantle the NHS leaving cheerleading to The Sun newspaper.
How the ‘jilted generation’ is paying for coalition’s cuts
More than 2,000 young people from across the country, including from the Prime Minister’s own constituency of Witney in Oxfordshire, have signed a letter to David Cameron to be published today, calling for the government to think again on its planned cuts to youth provision and support.
Cameron’s reforms risk being undone by weak accountability structures
ippr’s Jonathon Clifton argues David Cameron’s reforms to public services risk being undone by the weak accountability structures he is putting in place.
Simon Hughes: “I oppose EMA cut, housing benefit cut and NHS reforms”
At today’s Fabian Society conference Simon Hughes said that he opposed the cuts to Education Maintenance Allowance and housing benefit and the NHS reforms.
League tables show Gove’s lack of ambition on underperforming schools
A closer look at the school league tables reveals the govt. is being insufficiently ambitious about turning round under-performing schools, writes Rick Muir.
Lansley’s pledge on cancer – more headlines over substance?
Dr Asif Sange believes the practicalities of Andrew Lansley’s pledge to give GPs more access to direct diagnostic tests needs to be examined in further detail.
Three-quarters of English pupils to face funding cut
Seventy five per cent of state school students in England face a funding cut in 2011/12, with the figure for the south east and south west up to 90 per cent.
Police numbers make troubling reading
Ed Balls criticised the government today with new figures that show 14,500 police officers could lose their jobs as a result of the spending review.