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AngryAsWell wrote:I do seriously wonder what / where our so call left press are coming from

Zoe Williams ‏@zoesqwilliams · 33s33 seconds ago
Mean to retweet them, but those Labour tips on how to deal with the Green party make it around 10% less possible ever to vote labour again

TechnicalEphemera wrote:

AngryAsWell wrote:I do seriously wonder what / where our so call left press are coming from

Zoe Williams ‏@zoesqwilliams · 33s33 seconds ago
Mean to retweet them, but those Labour tips on how to deal with the Green party make it around 10% less possible ever to vote labour again

Zoe Williams can bite my shiny metal ass as well.

Typical Guardian journo, nice and comfortable; doesn't give a toss if the Tories get in as long as she can make clever comments from the sidelines.

ohsocynical wrote:Norman Tebbit

ohsocynical wrote:Ernest Marples

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:

ohsocynical wrote:Ernest Marples

Who?

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:

ohsocynical wrote:Ernest Marples

Who?

RobertSnozers wrote:Lord Adonis

99. The RSC regions are too large as currently devised. We do not believe that an increase in staff numbers, as envisaged by the Secretary of State, would allow the RSC offices to be sufficiently in touch with local information, given the number of schools potentially involved. The number of Regional Schools Commissioners will need to increase from the current eight if they are to perform an effective oversight role for the academies in each region, and even more so if they are to be extended to cover maintained schools as well.

100.We recommend that the Government review and increase the number of schools commissioners.

RobertSnozers wrote:Lord Adonis

HindleA wrote:Leslie Hore-Belisha

PaulfromYorkshire wrote:

HindleA wrote:Leslie Hore-Belisha

Who?

HindleA wrote:Belisha Beacon

kizbot wrote:hello. kizbot here. just dropped in from the socialist republic of greece to say hi..

RogerOThornhill wrote:Oh, and regional commissioners...

99. The RSC regions are too large as currently devised. We do not believe that an increase in staff numbers, as envisaged by the Secretary of State, would allow the RSC offices to be sufficiently in touch with local information, given the number of schools potentially involved. The number of Regional Schools Commissioners will need to increase from the current eight if they are to perform an effective oversight role for the academies in each region, and even more so if they are to be extended to cover maintained schools as well.

100.We recommend that the Government review and increase the number of schools commissioners.

so...just like Blunkett said then - not enough of them. And they need to oversee all schools.

No doubt Toady will do an article about this and reference his own work saying that Labour stole the idea from Gove...no, I'm wrong...he'll simply ignore it.

HindleA wrote:Belisha Beacon

Andy Burnham ‏@andyburnhammp 15m15 minutes ago
READ > my full speech setting out Labour's 10-year plan to build a national health & care service > http://andyburnhammp.blogspot.co.uk/201 ... r.html?m=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

Isabel Hardman @IsabelHardman · 5h 5 hours ago
I understand 80 Tories plan to vote against plain packaging for cigarettes http://specc.ie/1H6jKtT" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

But a distinction will be drawn between not-for-profit and for-profit providers.

Given that voluntary organisations build volunteering capacity – which in turn builds the health of people and communities – we should give them the benefit of much longer and more stable arrangements, for instance for five or even ten years.

Private sector organisations, working as long-term partners, will have to accept NHS standards. So we will extend the Freedom of Information provisions to any provider of NHS services and consult on a new training levy so that all providers contribute to the costs of training clinical staff.

As NHS 111 contracts expire, we will look at ambulance services taking them on so that, in time, they could handle all 111 and 999 calls from the same call centres.

This will mean more experienced staff on the phones, and better classification of calls.

But just as with other parts of the NHS, we need to ask the ambulance service to work from a default presumption of treatment at home, not hospital – if clinically safe and appropriate.

To do this, paramedics will need to be able to call directly on a wider range of health professionals – GPs, OTs, physios, care assistants – who can settle and support people at home in out-of-hours times before handing over to local teams.

ohsocynical wrote:Latest poll...Cons in lead again. Three in a row...now wait for the gloating....I'm off to bed!

Dr Éoin Clarke ‏@LabourEoin 8m8 minutes ago
Brilliant from Andy Burnham just now. There's no space in NHS Budget for 8% profit margin from Private Profiteers. Simple as that #Newsnight

Chris Williamson ‏@ChriswMP 2m2 minutes ago
Is Kirsty Wark being deliberately obtuse in her interview of @andyburnhammp on #newsnight? Great & passionate defence of our NHS by Andy

Kevan Jones MP ‏@KevanJonesMP 7m7 minutes ago
Durham Free School a 'haven for bad teachers' MP tells hearing http://mirr.im/15Lfb6P" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Why I will not be jumping on the Green Party bandwagon.
https://theinterruptingsheep.wordpress. ... bandwagon/

Green party’s flagship economic policy would hit poorest hardest, say experts
Citizen’s income – an unconditional income for every individual – would not work as hoped unless means-tested, say researchers
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... -hits-poor

rebeccariots2 wrote:Shocking stuff in this report too.

Kevan Jones MP ‏@KevanJonesMP 7m7 minutes ago
Durham Free School a 'haven for bad teachers' MP tells hearing http://mirr.im/15Lfb6P" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Sir Gerald Howarth (Aldershot) (Con):
I am most grateful to the hon. Lady for her courtesy in giving way again. The chairman of the governors has written to a number of us, including me, to say that they feel that the Ofsted report was grossly unfair. One of the things Ofsted said in that report was that

Tubby Isaacs wrote:Replying to an academic arguing Perm Secs need 5 years, I suggested Chris Wormald could usefully be turned over a bit quicker.

He rather indiscreetly retweeted me.

rebeccariots2 wrote:They've just opened up comments on this article ... I posted about it earlier when there was no comments facility.

Green party’s flagship economic policy would hit poorest hardest, say experts
Citizen’s income – an unconditional income for every individual – would not work as hoped unless means-tested, say researchers
http://www.theguardian.com/politics/201 ... -hits-poor

rebeccariots2 wrote:

Andy Burnham ‏@andyburnhammp 15m15 minutes ago
READ > my full speech setting out Labour's 10-year plan to build a national health & care service > http://andyburnhammp.blogspot.co.uk/201 ... r.html?m=0" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; …

188. Free schools are a flagship policy of the Government, designed to allow experimentation, but it appears that the policy has been altered so that these schools are also intended to meet basic need for places. The DfE needs to be clear and transparent about how the competition for free school funding is decided and the relative weight it gives to each of innovation, basic need, deprivation and parental demand, and to publish the number and type of applications it receives, from whom and the criteria it uses to make decisions on applications. We also recommend that the Government examine
carefully any applications for free schools in areas where there are surplus places and a large proportion of existing schools which are good or outstanding.