Where will the NHS go from here?
Director of the Socialist Health Association, Martin Rathfelder, discusses the future of the NHS.
Public Services
Local authorities face much higher cuts than Pickles claimed
Eric Pickles has masked the true cuts to local government budgets by using a total inflated by council tax and NHS social care funding, reports Rosanna Singler.
Questions for the government over special needs funding
Laurence Turner asks questions over the future of Special Educational Needs provision, and the government’s ability to offer a ‘full and equal share’ to all.
Front-loading of police cuts adds insult to injury
Police budget cuts are being front-loaded, which means that police services will have no choice but to start cutting staff now, writes UNISON’s Dave Prentis.
IFS shoots coalition’s deadweight EMA cuts argument to pieces
Using a new fangled technique the IFS yesterday finally shot to pieces the coalition’s arguments in favour of abolishing Education Maintenance Allowance.
Cuts to NHS and social care services likely, says health select committee
The likelihood of cuts to health and social care services, and the destabilising effect of the Coalition’s market-driven NHS reforms, were endorsed today in a remarkable health select committee report. The committee, with a coalition majority and chaired by ex-Tory health secretary Stephen Dorrell, was reporting on implications and risks from the Spending Review.
Evan Harris: “If you want to get rid of fees vote more Lib Dems into power”
Former Liberal Democrat MP Dr Evan Harris has made the extraordinary claim that to get rid of fees “the answer is to vote more liberal democrats into power”.
Tuition fees backlash gains momentum on the right
UKIP’s Gawain Towler talks exclusively to Left Foot Forward about his party’s position on tuition fees.
The real nature of the EMA debate
Anthony Painter examines the truth behind the numbers in the Educational Maintenance Allowance debate.
Who’s misleading whom?
The tuition fee row will hit its peak tonight, after which students across England will have to face up to the fact they will pay fees amounting to £27,000.