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The Guardian (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Leading health experts round on the health secretary Andy Burnham today, warning him off reversing a Labour programme of modernisation and competition within the health service. Burnham surprised cabinet ministers and policy officials alike when he announced in September that the NHS would return to the "preferred provider" model of services that existed before the government opened the...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
• News: Swine flu jab to be offered to healthy under-fives • Features: The UN gave children rights - it's time we consulted them • Comment: Kick up a stink for better sanitation Welcome to the daily news round-up from SocietyGuardian.co.uk **************** Today's top story - Tories 'scaremongering' over national care service plans Labour's Andy Burnham says it is 'gutter politics'...
The Cedar Lounge Revolution (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Another and very welcome addition to the world of Irish political ephemera is the Roscommon Historical Research website available here : Liam Byrne the webmaster has amassed a range of materials not merely political but more broadly about Roscommon and its history. It’s another resource. There are posters, information on elections and all manner of donations [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
Chief secretary to the Treasury says he is 'incredulous' that Cameron proposes swingeing cuts Liam Byrne, the chief secretary to the Treasury, today rounded on David Cameron's vision of "broken Britain" and his solution of some £400m in public service cuts coupled with a major rollback of state provision of public services. Speaking this morning, Byrne said he was "incredulous"...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 19/11/2009
A new survey shows social enterprises are playing a key role in public service provision, and are a successful and growing business sector Social enterprises are playing a key role in the provision of public services, with over a third deriving at least half of their income through contracts with local councils and Whitehall, according to a survey published today. Both the Conservatives and Labour...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The government is being urged to reward community groups that can provide services more efficiently than the state with half the value of the savings they make. In a report to the chief secretary to the Treasury, Liam Byrne, the Young Foundation today recommends ways the government could work better with community organisations. The Labour party is attempting to reclaim community and voluntary movements...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
I am struggling to persuade myself that today's Queen's speech was not a trivial occasion Was the turnout of Labour MPs ready to troop over to the Lords for the Queen's speech even thinner than usual? About 50% of them, some of us thought in the press gallery, nine of whom stayed behind on the green benches, as Dennis Skinner and Neil Kinnock used to do years ago. Skinner still does. Lord Kinnock...
TechRadar (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
The British government is looking at ways of making all of its Ordnance Survey maps freely available online. Prime Minister Gordon Brown announced the move this week at an event alongside the government's new 'information tsar' web inventor Sir Tim Berners-Lee. The government has been inspired by the success of crime mapping where "data openness" is helping citizens assess the safety of...
The Guardian Technology blog (Free subscription) | 18/11/2009
Besides those, we've also got autocompletion overload, the key question about Eric Raymond, and a coding book. • First up, in case you've missed it (and you might well have), the Free Our Data campaign has had a significant victory . The prime minister Gordon Brown yesterday announced that from April Ordnance Survey map data, including "mid-range" maps (roughly, starting from 1:10,000...
geo2web.com (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
Ordnance Survey Maps [and Data] to go FREE Online by April 2010. Groundbreaking News this is amazing turn-around for UK Government Geo-Spatial Datasets. Thanks to Sir Tim Berners-Lee (& inventing the World Wide Web) "The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April " Today's announcement will be followed by a speech, due next week...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/11/2009
PM to open access to 2,000 data sets in victory for Guardian's Free our Data campaign The government is to explore ways of making all Ordnance Survey maps freely available online from April, in a victory for the Guardian's three-year Free Our Data campaign. The move will bring the UK into line with the free publication of maps that exists in the US. Gordon Brown announced the change at a joint event...
Benedict Brogan (Free subscription) | 12/11/2009
The Institute for Government gave Liam Byrne a platform last night to answer David Cameron’s meaty speech on poverty. Sir Michael Bichard went to great lengths to make the Chief Secretary welcome, including finding a Labour councillor from Kensington and Chelsea to put Mr Byrne on the spot. The Chief Sec’s thesis was that having [...]
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 11/11/2009
The first exchanges in the battle over how to deliver social policy in a shrinking economy have begun in earnest as Labour moved today to condemn David Cameron's call for a "big society" to replace Labour's "big state". Liam Byrne, chief secretary to the Treasury and one of the party's leading thinkers, said the Tory leader's central case on combating poverty amounted to little...
donpaskini (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Here's two Labour MPs, talking about some of the work that they do: "In my constituency, if something moves in the community that we haven’t either started or been a part of we get worried. There isn’t a local community organisation, residents and tenants association, or environmental group that hasn’t either been set up by us or which isn’t organised by sympathisers. The...
Left Foot Forward (Free subscription) | 29/10/2009
George Osborne was today accused by Chief Secretary Liam Byrne of making "a complete clown of himself" as he asserted that the US would be out of recession even without the stimulus, a claim denied by the two of the most senior economic figures in President Obama's administration. Asked by Jon ...
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