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...mas tradition? Dressing my son as a Christmas tree. It started when he was 18 months old, and he is now 22. I have the photos! He regards it as evidence that his mother is not quite...
779 days ago
...personal, direct and honest and put a stop to malicious rumours and destructive talk about religious divisions in the embassy. Ms Haq has shown evidence of all four P's: Pride, Passi...
178 days ago
...s: Glasgow Clyde Valley Green Network Partnership, Glasgow Centre for Population Health, NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde and Glasgow City Council. Evidence is growing that indicates gre...
178 days ago
Sponsored feature: Cost-effective recruitment for security cleared jobs
...rtisers, which reflects the breadth of jobs that require people with some level of security clearance.” This breadth has been very much in evidence at the Security Cleared Expos...
31 days ago
Sponsored feature: Be prepared for Select Committee success
...ated by a genuine belief in the worth of Select Committees. “I think it is a constitutional duty for public servants to be helpful in their evidence to Select Committees,”...
47 days ago
Living In A Connected World - Case Management
...is still taught in school?) to high-frequency, informal, bite-size pieces of information exchange. Paper is no longer the only form of admissible evidence, audio, video, emails and oth...
221 days ago
...;s decision to authorise a rescue mission had been the right one, he said – though how the Labour leader knew this, without having seen the evidence presented to Cameron on the k...
478 days ago
Departing Benita urges focus on diversity and robust advice
...to say: ‘We can deliver anything.’ And in doing that maybe we didn’t put forward, in the way we ordinarily would, the objective, risk-based evidence on some policies. I think we...
10 hours ago
Betts: ‘Planning not a barrier’
...ernment argued that there’s no evidence of the economic need for refo...und that there’s absolutely no evidence that the planning system is h...nes council, also questioned the evidence for planning reform. From his...only issue – but the weight of evidence available to us, during the g...
yesterday
...ort of the workforce, the quality of the target operating model, and the rigour of assessment over the requirement really matter – offering the evidence base to persuade and convince...
3 days ago
Editorial: If it’s not working, do something else
...only making things worse? If the cuts applauded by these markets strangle the economy, the traders will be the first to abandon ship – and the evidence of the credit crunch is that...
59 days ago
...ves by, for example, encouraging surgeons to turn away patients needing risky operations to protect their performance figures. “Thankfully, the evidence is that we should trust our p...
60 days ago
...take ten years and cost us £100m to fight”. Jenkins has “no doubt that we could have won if we could have fought properly, but a lot of the evidence was such that if we disclosed...
72 days ago
The importance of a clear view
...sed by departments cutting their FoI teams. “We’ve heard anecdotal evidence that FoI officers and FoI tea...ommittee that examined FoI ten years ago, and “the most enthusiastic evidence we got was from the Irish gov...
81 days ago
...rom all three police associations was that the government’s dramatic policing reforms have not been built around detailed research and a strong evidence base – and this frustration...
119 days ago
...vity appearing across government and emerging evidence that when applied, lean can b...2009. “We’ve found there’s very strong evidence of lean’s effectiveness in...e we can share experience and demonstrate the evidence, the more likely they are to...
176 days ago
Online roundtable: procurement reform
...progress in demolishing the myths that surround EU competition law,” he wrote, and more public bodies have stipulated that bidders must provide evidence of social value in their tend...
176 days ago
Special report: SCS recruitment
...staff who’ve been in the department for a longer period. Retention can be affected by other factors, of course. There’s little clear evidence of a direct link between staf...
110 days ago
An exclusive club: special adviser analysis
...ing taken in from scrapped quangos.However, Watson does have some hard evidence that the new government is ap...ith spads, their former colleagues and employers, as well as collating evidence from other sources. For reaso...
176 days ago
Opinion: freedom of speech for scientists
The sacking of the drugs advisory panel chair Professor Nutt sets a dangerous precedent, says Nick Dusic. The government must respect scientists’ freedom of speech Home secretary Alan Johnson’s decision to ask Professor David Nutt to resign as chair of the Advisory Council on Misuse ...
Tags: Science, advice, Policy, evidence, drugs
805 days ago
Comment on "To cut or not to cut"
...expects not to recover, fraud and error between £1.58 billion and £1.84 billion (7.9 per cent to 9.2 per cent of the final award), no evidence to demonstrate a lower estima...851 days ago
Comment on "Leadership Crisis in Belfast"
...sed, shot down, supported, hacked about etc etc. Anyone in team feels entitled to put forward ideas - so long as they can support the idea with evidence andlogic. Put it this way, y...442 days ago
