The Information Tribunal has rejected an attempt by the Department for Education (DfE) to withhold information, concerning the identity of groups who have proposed to open so-called ‘free schools’ in England, as reported by BBC News.
The Information, including the names, location and religious affiliation of such groups, was requested in an attempt to highlight an alleged lack of transparency inherent in the system of proposing and setting up a free school.
Norman Lamb, the Coalition Health Minister, has called for the issue of how to fund care for the elderly to be addressed urgently by the Government. In an interview with the Daily Mail this week, Lamb said that legislation must be brought in to address the principal of capping care costs.
The cap was a key recommendation of the Government-appointed Dilnot Commission, charged with making recommendations on how long-term care for the elderly should be funded in the future. The report, published in July this year, advised that the cap, after which the state would fund care, should be set at between £25,000 and £50,000, with £35,000 as the most reasonable figure.
2012 has been a big year for news; a Presidential election that didn’t result in a legal battle, Apple Vs Everyone, Hillsborough, banking scandals galore, tax avoidance, Jimmy Savile, the Olympics, and of course a royal pregnancy.
These were all interesting (and often shocking) stories, however there were plenty of other interesting and quirky stories we covered this year.
The Prime Minister, David Cameron, has announced this week that children in the UK will be protected by an automatic block regarding online pornography, which parents must choose to have lifted.
This development comes after the Telegraph reported last Friday that the Government had decided against anti-pornography filters for the internet, because such a system “could create a false sense of security”, meaning that parents might stop invigilating their children’s internet usage.
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