General Reports and Other Publications
IfS: Considerable variation in the amount of wealth that households hold & how they hold it means that some will have been more exposed to falling asset prices during 2008 & 2009 than others.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimate that the best off will have lost most – households headed by someone aged 55–74 with a degree level qualification will, they estimate, have lost on average about £25,000 as a result of asset price falls between 2007 and autumn 2009.
The Institute for Fiscal Studies estimate that the best off will have lost most – households headed by someone aged 55–74 with a degree level qualification will, they estimate, have lost on average about £25,000 as a result of asset price falls between 2007 and autumn 2009.
Defra: The Rural Payments Agency must change to deliver better value for money and a better experience for its customers, Agriculture Minister Jim Paice said in response to an independent review of the organisation and its operations.
The Review, which was announced by Defra in September 2009, considered the current state of the RPA, as well as its readiness for a changed Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) after 2013.
Ofsted: Targeted support from local authorities and their partners is helping to meet the needs of vulnerable young people, according to a report published by Ofsted, the Office for Standards in Education, Children’s Services and Skills.
However, the report finds that local authorities have made limited progress in involving voluntary, community & private groups in providing youth services, and that the focus on providing services for ‘at risk’ young people risked undermining the youth activities available to all young people.
Press release ~ Ofsted: Supporting young people - An evaluation of recent reforms to youth support services in 11 local areas
Newswire – Demos: The Home Office should abolish the £60m 'Preventing Violent Extremism' (PVE) programme to make the UK safer argues Demos. In a new report (From Suspects to Citizens), the independent think tank calls for PVE measures – which focus on community engagement and cohesion – to be ‘dismantled’.
Prevention work should instead be solely focused on stopping people with the intent to act or who are being targeted by recruiters.
Prevention work should instead be solely focused on stopping people with the intent to act or who are being targeted by recruiters.
It also argues that the Coalition Government must make good on its pledge to restore civil liberties by fighting non-violent extremism with argument, not legislation. The Home Office announced a review of the 'prevent' strand of the counter-terrorism strategy in its Structural Reform Plan published on 14 July 2010.
HMT: Financial Secretary to the Treasury, Mark Hoban MP, has announced that the Coalition Government has published the final report by Sir John Chadwick in relation to losses suffered as a result of Government maladministration in the regulation of Equitable Life.
NAO: The Community Care Grant has an important role in helping vulnerable people to establish themselves in the community and in easing exceptional pressure on families.
The scheme is deliberately designed to be flexible so that it can provide help in good time to those who need it, but the scheme as currently designed does not deliver value for money, according to a report published by the National Audit Office.
The scheme is deliberately designed to be flexible so that it can provide help in good time to those who need it, but the scheme as currently designed does not deliver value for money, according to a report published by the National Audit Office.
NAO: Firebuy, a specialist body established by the Department for Communities and Local Government to support procurement of kit by Fire & Rescue Services, has cost nearly twice as much to set up & run as the total savings it claims to have delivered according to a report to Parliament by the National Audit Office.
