All Education and healthcare articles – Page 72
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NewsFirms scramble to win work on Tories' free schools initiative
Consultants switch resources from BSF and rush to make contacts with parent and teacher groups
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NewsCamden investigates BSF legal challenge
London council has had 14 school building projects cancelled
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NewsLGA: Councils spent £160m on BSF preparation
Figures released today show scale of spending on paperwork for cancelled schoolbuilding programme
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NewsHodge to head 'value for money' enquiry into BSF
Review by Public Accounts Committee chair Margaret Hodge will look at claims of waste and bureaucracy
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Gove publishes new version of scrapped BSF schools list
Twenty schools have had their statuses changed in the latest list
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NewsGove faces Lib Dem split over BSF
Simon Hughes, Lib Dem deputy leader, distances party from education secretary’s decision to axe 700 school projects
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CommentThe legal fall-out from scrapping BSF
Claims could soon start from companies left out of pocket by the government shredding of BSF
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NewsGreen light for £93m Laing O'Rourke hospital
Health secretary Andrew Lansley pledges £70m government funding for stalled West Cumberland Hospital
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NewsOver £100m wasted on scrapped schools bid costs
Lawyers predict flood of claims after government abandons 719 projects
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CommentCan school bid costs be recovered?
Procurement processes are usually set up to give the procuring body no duty to pay bid costs if schemes don’t go ahead. But there may be particular circumstances on certain contracts that could justify bidders recovering their bid costs
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NewsFuture of school building unclear until Christmas
Government review may delay scaled-back programme till end of 2011
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NewsFull details of changes to BSF cuts list
Revised document changes the status of 32 schools in 13 councils
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NewsGove 'to apologise' on BSF cull chaos
Minister admits errors in identifying cancelled school building projects
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NewsCabe to axe staff in wake of BSF cull
Design quango’s budget hit as Gove scraps role on slashed schools programme
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NewsRIBA says BSF cuts will be 'profoundly detrimental'
Ruth Reed warns capital spend should not solely focus on projects with most financial return as industry braces itself for job losses
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NewsGovernment's BSF review due 'within months'
Review panel chaired by Sebastian James will reprioritise hundreds of school projects
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NewsFull list of scrapped BSF projects revealed
List shows which projects will be stopped, which hang in the balance and which are safe
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NewsHundreds of BSF projects scrapped
Michael Gove stops 715 school building projects in major blow to sector
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NewsGovernment to announce BSF cuts today
Construction industry braces itself for scaling back of £55bn school rebuilding programme