Tag: Stealing your freedom
Something New
Recently, I posted “Oh look, someone has noticed”, remarking on how the Government has suddenly noticed that we have a problem over food security and fuel security. Today we have something new: But Mr Woolas, who became immigration minister in the reshuffle earlier this month, said: “This government isn’t going to allow the population to…
Petition actions | Protect The Human
Petition actions | Protect The Human This autumn the Government wants to push through a Bill allowing police to lock people up for 42 days without charge if they are suspected of a terrorism-related offence. When the Counter-Terrorism Bill comes back to the House of Commons, your MP will have a chance to help defeat…
BBC NEWS | Education | Database of children is delayed
BBC NEWS | Education | Database of children is delayed The introduction of a database of details about every child in England has been delayed for the second time. The database of children’s names, addresses, birth dates and contact details for their doctors and schools, was due to be piloted from October. Children’s minister Kevin…
ID contractor denounced over data loss | Politics | The Guardian
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…
BBC NEWS | England | London | End to father's motorway protest
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…
Some government dept, somewhere.
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…
Every child matters.
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
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…
Preparing the battlefield…
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…
watching Mary Poppins
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…