10/06/2008

Carers are Britains unsung heroes. Dedicated carers around the country and here in Stalybridge & Hyde play a vital role in supporting elderly and disabled relatives and friends but they need support...(more)

11/06/2008

Working Time and Agency Workers At the Employment Council in Luxembourg on Monday night political agreement was reached on the draft Agency Workers Directive and the draft Directive on Working Time. ...(more)

11/06/2008

Labour Market Statistics New figures out today show that employment remains high at over 29.5 million, rising by 76,000 on the quarter and up 446,000 compared to a year ago as more people continue to...(more)

12/06/2008

Cluster Munitions International negotiations can often seem endless and unrewarding. Thats particularly true when you are trying to limit the use of weapons. So when the talks succeed as they did o...(more)

13/06/2008

National Challenge Schools In 2007 there were 638 secondary schools where fewer than 30 of pupils get 5 A*C at GCSE, including English and maths. The number of schools below the 30 'floor target'...(more)

16/06/2008

New Measures to Tackle Knife Crime The effective end of knife cautions for the over 16s forms the key plank of a package of Labours tough new measures, including On enforcement 5 million of direct ...(more)

17/06/2008

Children and Young Persons Bill The Bill is part of Labours wider and continuing programme to reform the care system and follows the Care Matters White Paper published in June 2007, which was built...(more)

18/06/2008

Communities in Fighting Crime Labour today backed proposals in the Casey Review to reduce crime, create safer communities and build public confidence by oIncreasing the visibility of community sente...(more)

23/06/2008

Enforcing immigration rules Labour is taking action to strengthen our borders and to shut down the causes of illegal immigration. We are holding newcomers to account when they break the rules, and ...(more)

23/06/2008

Radicals or conservatives? The fact that will do for the Tories is that they dont know what they think. The twists and turns of trying to take the toxic from a political brand has left them dizzy. Th...(more)

30/06/2008

The NHS Next Stage Review The NHS is the Labour Partys greatest achievement. We created it, we saved it, we value it and we will always support it. Since 1997, Labours investment in the NHS has tr...(more)