ID contractor denounced over data loss | Politics | The Guardian
The home secretary, Jacqui Smith, yesterday denounced the consultancy firm involved in the development of the ID cards scheme for “completely unacceptable” practice after losing a memory stick containing the personal details of all of the 84,000 prisoners in England and Wales.
The memory stick contained [...]
BBC NEWS | England | London | End to father’s motorway protest
Police said despite the massive traffic disruption on the motorway, the man had the right to protest peacefully.
A Metropolitan Police spokeswoman said that despite queues that stretched for 19km (12 miles) on the M25 and 32km (20 miles) on the M4, the decision to [...]
NDS - News Distribution Service
From 2010 the new scheme will form part of personal skills accounts that will be available to all adults and will guarantee free training for older people up to at least level 2 GCSE equivalent. In todays Paper, Ministers will also announce a pilot to fund and support training up to [...]
From Identifying and Maintaining Contact with Children Missing or At Risk of Going Missing from Education
There are also other circumstances by which a child could go missing. Most cases are relatively minor whereby the child returns home quickly or is not believed to be in any serious danger even if they are found or [...]
BBC NEWS | Politics | Olympics audio surveillance row
“As you walk down the street you expect to be able to have a private conversation,” he said.
“If you can’t guarantee that - and here is someone speaking who has been pretty tough in terms of what should be available to protect society - I believe we [...]
was doing some research into the basic standards required for school leavers nowadays.
Found this site, which describes the Statutory requirements at key stage 4.
I’m intrigued - how do you enforce learning? As in:
compulsory areas of learning: careers education, sex education and work-related learning
I can see that you can require that education be offered, but [...]
Yesterday I worked from home. The break from driving was much appreciated!
Kirsty came by and dropped A off while she took M to the dentist, and despite the fact it was ages since my two had seen A they all disappeared off upstairs, and were neither seen nor heard until about 5.45, when they [...]
Carlotta has posted the text of an email received from someone in the dfes. It’s worth reading, it’s worth writing to dfes to get put on the consultation list, it’s worth starting to consider what you would say and where you would fight.
Gill blogged recently about how parents must do better according to the [...]
Round up the youthful suspects! Govt to target crime at birth | The Register
Another version of the story that I linked to a couple of days ago, with quotes from and reference to ARCH.
ID cards doomed, say officials - Sunday Times - Times Online
Slow news day today is it? Can’t help feeling this really ought to have been a headline, haven’t seen a sniff of it on bbc news though, or in the guardian for that matter. Only found it when following a link from Butterflies [...]
Guardian Unlimited Politics | Special Reports | Reform bill climbdown fails to satisfy critics
Critics of a new law giving ministers greater powers have renewed their attack despite a major climbdown, warning that the government got its proposals “badly wrong”.
It’s still rumbling on. I finally heard from my mp - I mailed her to ask [...]
PM’s interview with Downing Street website
Because I am quite sure, based on the experience I have had in government, you cannot solve some of these law and order problems unless you are prepared, quite profoundly, to change and rebalance the system of criminal justice so that you have more summary justice, more summary powers, more [...]
let along blog, or do much in the way of commenting.
Long days at work, driving OK apart from the occasional suicidal maniac (what else do you call a fool who pulls off at a sliproad only once the hatching is there? Twice that’s happened this week, both times on motorways that have four lanes [...]
Guardian Unlimited | Guardian daily comment | Blair’s inner circle and its ferocious grab for power
The perverse fact is that we are being asked to place great trust in a government that makes a point of distrusting everyone outside its inner circle. If we don’t share their assumption that they alone know what is best [...]
Columnists - Yorkshire Post Today: News, Sport, Jobs, Property, Cars, Entertainments & More: LB2
By Colin Cramphorn
Colin Cramphorn is the Association of Chief Police Officers’ portfolio holder for Constitutional Affairs and the Chief Constable of West Yorkshire.
QUIETLY, and without serious debate, a revolution is taking place around the future of policing in England and Wales.
While one [...]
First email bulletin - if you haven’t signed up over there, please do.
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Hi everyone,
First of all, we’d like to say thank you for signing up, and welcome to the Save Parliament campaign!
This is the first email bulletin we’ve sent out. We’ll be sending more as things happen, so you can expect to be contacted [...]
Thank you for writing to David Cameron - I’m replying on his behalf. I’m so sorry for the long delay in my reply, as I am sure you can appreciate there has been a massive increase in the volume of correspondence coming into the office since David Cameron took over as leader.
The Government claims [...]
Regular readers will know that this blog is supposedly a blog about our family life and occasional foray into home education. Previous political posts have been few and far between, but this week, I just don’t seem to be able to drop the subject.
I was typing a long and fascinating response to comments below [...]
BBC NEWS | Magazine | Power to the people?
The present government is in power thanks to the votes of little more than a fifth of the electorate. And think of the authority and intrusion of a modern British government.
This is not a few elderly clerks pushing pens in Whitehall to send dispatches to Hanover. This [...]
The Observer | Comment | Henry Porter: How we move ever closer to becoming a totalitarian state
What I saw in Committee A was the triumph of Tony Blair’s modernity over liberty.
Read it and weep. Then dry your eyes and do something about it. Write to your mp, registering your displeasure. Blog in [...]