Category Archives: Stealing your freedom

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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”. … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →

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 … Continue reading →