A study by Education Data Surveys published today, reveals that more than a third of primary schools in England and Wales failed to appoint a headteacher after a first advertisement during the last school year. Continued recruiting difficulties suggest that despite large pay rises for heads, many teachers are deterred by the demands of the job and the pressures of living with league tables and constant government initiatives.
Dundee LibDems today (Friday 31st August) backed calls by Scottish Liberal Democrat Leader, Nicol Stephen MSP, for the SNP First Minister to think again over his plans to ensure his Council of Economic Advisers cannot scrutinise the SNP government's spending plans.
Your local Chesterfield Liberal Democrat FOCUS team are working throughout the year with Paul Holmes MP for Chesterfield. With regular FOCUS leaflets to local households and news stories and updates on line at www.chesterfieldlibdems.org.uk the Liberal Democrat team will keep in touch: all year round.
Local MP, Tim Farron welcomed the news today that the livestock elements of the Westmorland County Show would be going ahead as normal. Mr Farron had been in conversations earlier in the week with senior officials at the Department for the Environment, Food and Rural Affairs, including the Farming Minister Lord Rooker, in an effort to obtain an animal gathering licence for the show.
Local Loughton campaigner Neil Woollcott has thanked residents after a stunning by-election result saw the Liberal Democrat vote more than triple.
Following Rochdale's Labour Parliamentary Candidate Simon Danczuk's calls for MP Paul Rowen to spell out what the Liberal Democrat party's new immigration proposals would mean for Rochdale, Mr Rowen has responded by saying that he sees this as an attempt by Mr Danczuk to 'stir up British National Party' style headlines. Rochdale's MP claims that Rochdale is losing out on millions of pounds because of the Labour Government's failure to tackle the problem of illegal immigration.