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Mid Staffs scandal: Patient interests were neglected for years by NHS mangers as hospitals concentrated on cutting waiting times, Sir David Nicholson tells MPs
Tuesday 05 March 2013
Sir David Nicholson accepted that he was “part” of an environment where the leadership of the NHS “lost its focus” and which indirectly led to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of patients at Stafford Hospital
Students demand reinstatement of EMA
Thursday 28 February 2013
In October 2010, the Coalition Government confirmed that it would be scrapping the Education Maintenance Allowance scheme in England which had previously encouraged students from less affluent backgrounds to continue their education beyond the age of sixteen.
We can't let this obsession with class compromise academic standards at our top Universities
Monday 15 October 2012
Alan Milburn, the Coalition's social mobility Tsar, has a set of new proposals to help disadvantaged pupils get into University. But has he really thought this through?
Milburn hits out at 'poison' of Britain's class system
Thursday 31 May 2012
Politicians who say they want to break down social barriers have been told to unlock closed-shop professions
Leading article: Child poverty needs more creative thinking
Wednesday 30 May 2012
There is an alternative to throwing cash at the problem: affordable childcare
Come clean on child poverty failure, Alan Milburn tells Government
Tuesday 08 May 2012
Adviser urges Cameron to act as cuts push more children below legally binding threshold
Lobbying: calls for transparency over former MPs' access to Parliament
Thursday 15 December 2011
Dozens of MPs who left the Commons at the last election have taken jobs in organisations involved in lobbying and have been given passes that give them privileged access to Parliament, an investigation for The Independent has established. Research by the Bureau of Investigative Journalism found that one in five of the 79 MPs who have applied for Former Members' Passes after the 2010 election now work for companies or organisations with a possible interest in influencing present MPs.
Child poverty 'to rise for years,' says social mobility advisor Alan Milburn
Tuesday 13 December 2011
Child poverty is set to rise "for many years to come" after an "almost certain reverse" in progress to wipe it out, the Government's advisor on social mobility said today.
Unbeaten Pardew proving perfect cup of tea for Toon
Monday 24 October 2011
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Milburn slams 'car crash' NHS plans
Thursday 16 June 2011
Former health secretary Alan Milburn has branded the coalition's watered down NHS reforms the "biggest car crash" in the service's history.
Mary Ann Sieghart: Trouble is, David shares Ed's faults
Monday 13 June 2011
I have a suspicion things would be only marginally different had the Labour leader's brother been in charge of the party
Clegg's own work experience casts shadow over social mobility drive
Wednesday 06 April 2011
Nick Clegg had to own up to some embarrassing truths about his own privileged background yesterday as he launched his campaign to give everyone more equal opportunities in life.
Nick Clegg sets out social mobility plan
Tuesday 05 April 2011
Nick Clegg claimed today that "birth has become destiny" for many youngsters as he set out the Government's strategy to improve social mobility.
Sean O'Grady: In this together – but Mr Osborne should put women and children first
Monday 14 March 2011
You can call it a patriarchal offensive if you wish; I would say it was an unfortunate accident of the way the economy happens to be structured
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Is the Muslim call to prayer really such a menace?
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Channel 4 to 'provoke' viewers who associate Islam with terrorism with live call to prayer during Ramadan
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US army doctor returns arm to Vietnamese soldier fifty years after he took it as a souvenir
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Police seize possessions of rough sleepers in crackdown on homelessness
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Demand for food banks has nothing to do with benefits squeeze, says Work minister Lord Freud
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