Skills for Justice: The new Diploma in Public Services looks to stakeholders for feedback
Thursday, 13 December 2007 12:00 AM
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Justice secretary Jack Straw outlined his ambition to make justice a "new front in public service" at the Labour conference in Manchester today.
The public should be placed at the heart of public services as a part of "truly personalised" reforms of schools and hospitals, the prime minister said today.
Everyone studying the new vocational diplomas would take English, maths and IT modules as well doing work experience in their chosen subjects, it has been revealed.
Catching up with the private sector's ability to engage with their customers is a key aim of the government's public sector reforms announced today.
Tony Blair and Michael Howard have clashed in the Commons over the state of public services.
The Prison Service and Probation Service are to be merged with the National Offender Management Service (Noms) in the latest home affairs governance restructure.
Universities are likely to adopt a cautious approach to students applying with diploma qualifications rather than A-levels, a report suggests.
In a keynote speech the Prime Minister has said that his vision for public services "combines choice, excellence and equality in a modern universal welfare state".
Public services should take more account of their customers' needs and ensure any complaints are properly dealt with, an influential committee of MPs says today.
The privatisation of public services should be "extended, not retracted" according to centre-left thinktank Progress.
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Skills for Justice: Champion announced for the Diploma in Public Services
A partnership of three leading sector skills councils has successfully bid to develop standards, qualifications and apprenticeships for employers across the UK.
"The reason the country is facing a double dip recession is that a key driver of the Government's economic policy has not been about tackling the deficit, but to use the deficit as a smokescreen to pursue the ideologically driven destruction of public services." - Chris Keates, NASUWT. Read more here.
Evidence-based policy should not be a radical concept. It needs to be celebrated.
As part of the ESRC Festival of Social Sciences, the Deafness Cognition And Language Research Centre (DCAL) hosted an event exploring the powerful benefits of bilingualism in spoken and sign languages, for hearing and deaf people alike - benefits that reach hearing and deaf people alike.
Application forms are now available for an exciting conference in Manchester. The fun-packed day will give you practical solutions and advice on managing stress and time to help you achieve a work/life balance.
Two weeks before the Government’s consultation on same-sex marriage draws to a close, Andrew Copson, Chief Executive of the British Humanist Association is participating in a debate hosted by Catholic Voices on the motion, ‘This House Would Legalise Same-Sex Marriage’.
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