+Vote!
The Brand Surgery (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
After two long years of hard work, West Sussex Credit Union officially opened for trading on Friday 3rd October 2008. With the credit crunch making headline press, what perfect timing! MP Tim Loughton cut the ribbon! The Brand Surgery are the proud designers of the West Sussex Credit Union branding, including the fab new website (www.westsussexcreditunion.co.uk), [...]
+Vote!
Dizzy Thinks (Free subscription) | 17/07/2008
Yesterday in Parliament, the Tory MP for East Worthing and Shoreham, Tim Loughton asked the Home Secretary,"what estimate her Department has made of trends in the average street price of skunk cannabis in the last two years.I know it's awfully cynical of me, but my first thought was "is he trying to figure out whether he had been skanked?" Either way, whilst the response which listed prices for
+Vote!
House of Dumb (Free subscription) | 05/06/2008
Quick, someone phone pretendey conservative Tim Loughton: I might just have solved the mystery of why social workers are not ' respected on a par with teachers, doctors and other public service professionals .' A social worker sacked after the murder of Victoria Climbie was yesterday offered a chance of getting another job working with children - to the fury of her professional watchdog.... After the...
+Vote!
Conservative Party (Free subscription) | 02/06/2008
Tim Loughton has criticised Labour's approach to underage drinking, saying it amounted to "Eleven years of inaction and now an ineffective Action Plan."
+Vote!
The Curmudgeon (Free subscription) | 11/02/2008
Tim Loughton, the shadow Minister for the Soldiers and Stockbrokers of the Future, has discovered that social workers have votes too. He observed that "in other countries, particularly in northern Europe, social workers are respected on a par with teachers, doctors and other public service professionals". Of course, Britain is no exception in this regard, treating social workers, doctors,
+Vote!
The ARCH Blog (Free subscription) | 13/12/2007
Tim Loughton has had his PQ answered. The answer is that they're not going to publish the full Integrated Children's System report: Tim Loughton: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families (1) when his Department commissioned the report on The Integrated Children's System: An Evaluation of the Practice, Process and Consequences of [...]
+Vote!
The ARCH Blog (Free subscription) | 11/12/2007
Getting on for 15 months now. Almost a year after his last attempt, shadow children's minister Tim Loughton has had another try at getting the government to publish the ICS evaluation that was delivered to them in September 2006: To ask the Secretary of State for Children, Schools and Families, when he plans to [...]
1Vote!
The ARCH Blog (Free subscription) | 26/11/2007
After writing about the lack of commitment from the Conservatives to scrapping Contactpoint, It's heartening to read this: But the Tories are calling for the scheme to be ditched. Tim Loughton, the Conservative spokesman for children, said it should be replaced by a smaller, more tightly controlled database. There’s certainly a case to be argued for a [...]
+Vote!
The ARCH Blog (Free subscription) | 24/11/2007
Good to see this: The Conservatives have demanded the immediate suspension of a new government electronic database containing personal details of all 11 million children in England. Tim Loughton, Shadow Children's Minister, has written to the Children's Minister Beverley Hughes asking her to put the whole project on ice, amid fears about the security of the [...]
+Vote!
The ARCH Blog (Free subscription) | 20/10/2007
It's 10 months since Tim Loughton, shadow children's minister, asked when the evaluation of the Integrated Children's System would be published, and received the reply: “The draft of this report is currently being peer-reviewed, and it will be published once the report has been completed.” The Integrated Children's System (ICS) is the third database in the [...]
+Vote!
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 17/10/2007
Let's show respect for children's social work, says Tim Loughton.
+Vote!
The Argus (Free subscription) | 16/10/2007
A calendar featuring Tory MPs posing with scantily clad nurses sparked huge controversy. Tim Loughton and Peter Bottomley posed for postcard pictures with women in fishnets and saucy nurses' uniforms to raise cash for the Keep Worthing and Southlands Hospitals appeal.
+Vote!
The Argus (Free subscription) | 11/10/2007
Last week the Tories were attacked over a hospital campaign calendar featuring MPs Tim Loughton and Peter Bottomley with a gaggle of Benny Hill-style naughty nurses.
