Feb272017

Angela Rayner responds to Social Mobility Commission report

Labour
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Angela
Rayner MP, Labour’s Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the Social
Mobility Commission’s report out today, said:

“The
Social Mobility Commission is only the latest expert body to explicitly call
for the Government to abandon their plans to increase selection in our schools.
It does nothing to help most children do better in life. The Government should
finally start listening to all the evidence against new grammars and
concentrate instead on helping all of our children to reach their full
potential, not just the few. 

“Funding cuts will make the attainment gap between advantaged and
disadvantaged children even wider at a time when inequality is steadily
worsening. With the Budget next week, the Chancellor has the chance to put the
needs of all our children first and give education the money it needs.”

Feb272017

CPC punishes officials for poor leadership

East Asia
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The discipline watchdog of the Communist Party of China (CPC) exposed six cases involving officials who were held accountable for their poor leadership.

The officials were punished for poor fulfillment of their main responsibilities in strict Party governance and ineffective supervision of disciplinary violation by their subordinates, according to a circular published on the website of the CPC Central Commission for Discipline Inspection (CCDI) on Sunday.

The cases involved gambling, poor investigation in handling public complaints, the illegal general election of a village-level Party committee and lavish wedding banquets, in provinces of Hunan, Hubei, Shandong, Shanxi, Guangdong and Liaoning, it said.

In July 2016, the CCDI issued a regulation to hold CPC officials accountable for poor leadership, targeting leaders of Party committees and discipline inspection committees at all levels.

The circular urged Party committees at all levels to comprehensively deepen strict Party governance and make good use of the accountability mechanism in Party building.

Discipline inspection committees at all levels should perform the duties of supervision, and officials who fail to perform their duty should be held accountable.

Feb272017

Free health and safety seminar programme at The Cleaning Show 2017

HSE
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The Health and Safety Executive will be running a morning of free seminars at the cleaning show this year to help employers protect their workforce and reduce costs attributed to managing staff absence.

Topics to be covered include:

  • working at height
  • preventing slips and trips
  • occupation respiratory health
  • MSDs
  • vulnerable workers

For more information and to book your place go to The Cleaning Show 2017