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Policy Statements and Initiatives

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Families happy with SEN reforms and £70m for councils – (£30m for new special educational needs champions)
Greater rights for young people in care
Cash for councils to stop rogue landlords
More people choosing greener journeys
Make Right to Buy your New Year's resolution
New benefit fraud & error campaign: 'Benefits. Are you doing the right thing?' – (Benefits capped for 33,000 households ~ More than 500 disabled people a week supported into work or training)
Foreign Secretary: foreign policy priorities for 2014
Teacher education funding – (Continuing Professional Development vital to delivering improvements in education says Minister ~ Tackling underperformance in weak primary schools ~New incentives to encourage the best graduates into teaching priority subjects)
Monitor to protect essential services by licensing independent providers RSS
Minister asks for review of storm damage to coastal flood defences and communities
Extra funding for mental health nurses to be based at police stations & courts across the country
4m trees to be planted next year
Development Secretary meets UK Somalis in Ealing – (Greening: clean water & shelter for South Sudan crisis ~ UK provides essential healthcare for Syrian refugees ~ Syria crisis: Latest updates on UK aid ~ UNICEF & partners launch $1bn strategy for Syria)
Welsh revisions to the GP contract to ‘remove treadmill of bureaucracy’

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