Public Services
Conservative Councils start the cutting
Essex County Council have revised their budget and aim to make savings of £300 million by 2010. Meanwhile, Conservatives in Lancashire are cutting education positions in a budget cutting drive.
Improving schools standards means more flexibility
Melanie Phillips’ support for Michael Gove in the Mail today is confused. While she is right to point out that more pupils should leave school able to read, write and count, she is wrong to assume that the Conservative's solutions will give us the outcomes we need.
Loans sell off would not affect students but funding system needs reform
The National Union of Students has been reassured by Ministers that sale of the student loans book will not impact student paying back their loans. But conservative think tanks, such as Reform, have been urging politicians to consider saving £1.2 billion by introducing market rates for student loans while the Confederation of British Industry have suggested that, in addition, grants should be cut.
Tory plans to slash NHS bureaucracy raise more questions than answers
Andrew Lansley's plans for the NHS raise more questions than answers.
Back to basics: Gove is no progressive
Michael Gove has spent a long time over the past few years brandishing his credentials as a zealous reformer, committed […]
True Tory agenda of public service profit revealed
Right-wing think tanks have revealed the true Tory public services agenda with a coordinated set of policy recommendations to encourage the break up of the NHS into competing social insurers and to allow private companies to profit from state education.