The drive to improve education standards has come under threat from unfilled teacher posts and disaffected pupils. The most acute problems arise in low attaining Secondary schools which have ...

This New Policy Institute annual report of indicators of poverty and social exclusion in the United Kingdom provides a comprehensive analysis of trends and differences between groups. A wide range of ...

The new style city development companies, proposed in the local government white paper, will look very much like Urban Regeneration Companies. A consultation document from the Department for ...

Students find difficulty in presenting their limited experience to a potential employer. Edd Williams offers advice on how to approach the challenge. For 14 years, Edd Williams has helped people get ...

When your everyday life is all about information security, you start to see patterns that may not be so obvious to others. In this article Simon Crosby takes a look at trends and makes predictions for ...

An all party committee of MPs has called on the Government to devise a joined up, cross-government strategy to prevent homelessness. Evidence to the committee revealed that across Great Britain, tens ...

Dorset County Council has the most satisfied customers in the country, according to a new corporate assessment report published today by the Audit Commission. It finds that local people’s overall ...

Local Government has a new brand. Called ‘My Council’ it has been launched by the Local Government Association and has been designed to show people the range of services that councils provide and how ...

Some local councils are accused today of rejecting too many challenges to the parking fines they impose. An article in the January 2008 issue of ‘Which?’ magazine says, though, that the number of ...

This report from the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development highlights how organisations are developing a range of different methods to assess the value of learning. Learning, training and ...