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FT - 3rd October - Policy Exchange on the resignation of Sir Ian Blair:
"This is not just a story of one man's failure to do his job properly. It is about a system that is broken." - read the full article here
Gavin Lockhart - Conservative Home - 3rd October 2008
This is an opportunity to mend the broken Met - read the full article here
The Guardian 'G2' - What can they be thinking?
Policy Exchange is a thinktank that feeds the Tory party with new ideas and ambitious young recruits. It believes in doubling our motorway network, cutting benefits and letting business run the welfare state. And it has huge influence over David Cameron. Andy Beckett investigates - see the entire article here
Ben Caldecott - It needn't cost the earth - Guardian 'Comment is Free' - 24th September
See the entire article here
Ben Caldecott - Environmentalism needs to take account of cost - Telegraph - 23rd September
Policy Exchange's latest research note You're Hired! in the press:
Ben Ullmann, Research Fellow, Policy Exchange on BBC Breakfast
BBC News: Ex-offender jobs 'need funding'.
Guardian: Call for firms to hire ex-offenders.
Politics UK: 'Prison-to-work' scheme could save £300 million.
Policy Exchange's latest report The Root of the Matter in the press:
The Guardian: "We can't stop climate change in a deforesting world".
The Telegraph: "Biofuel subsidies must stop".
BBC News: "UK 'should end biofuel subsidies'".
The Scotsman: "Plea to scrap 'misguided' biofuel subsidies and save trees instead".
Metro: "Biofuels 'are a waste of green cash' ".
BusinessGreen: "Government urged to ditch biofuel subsidies".
Download the report.
Policy Exchange's report Cities Unlimited in the press:
Prospect Magazine: "The mill towns around our neck".
The Times: "Give the North a go at running itself".
The Independent: "The paradox at the heart of Conservatism".
The Daily Mail: "Isn't it time...".
The Times: "Look on King's Lynn".
The press release.
Sam Freedman, Head of Education at Policy Exchange - "What has emerged in recent years is actually two distinct academy programmes"
To read the full article click here.
Policy Exchange's report More Good Teachers in the press:
The Indepdent: "Good teachers are made in the classroom".
The Times: "Changes needed to tempt talented graduates to teach says think-tank".
The Daily Mail: "Students with the worst exam results are accepted on to teacher training courses".
The Telegraph: "Graduates abandon 'unglamorous' teaching".
BBC News: "Call to give schools pay opt-out".
To read the press release click here.
Policy Exchange's report Going Ballistic : Dealing with Guns, Gangs and Knives in the press:
The Sunday Times - "Baffling knife laws to be rewritten". To read the article click here.
Sky News: "PM's promise on knife crime". To read the article click here.
The Independent - "Teens targeted in crime crackdown". To read the article click here.
The Sun - "Gun and knife crime worsening". To read the article click here.
The Observer - "Most young offenders are also victims". To read the article click here.
The Sunday Times - "Wanted: a solution to knife crime". To read the article click here.
The Telegraph - "Figures do not show true picture of violent crime". To read the article click here.
Channel Five News - "Knife crime worse than feared". To read the article click here.
The Telegraph - "The truth about knife crime". To read the article click here.
The Daily Mail - "Knives are in youngster's DNA". To read the article click here.
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Each year, in England and Wales, approximately 66,000 offenders will return to society from prison. At least three-quarters of them will be unemployed and almost two thirds will re-offend within two years. You’re Hired! argues that the Government should offer payment based on performance to any organisation which places and maintains ex-offenders in employment. Local councils could then partner with these organisations to provide a one-stop assessment and referral centre to help place offenders in employment.
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