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Additional written evidence is contained in Volume 3, available on the Committee website at www.parliament.uk/healthcom
Additional written evidence is contained in Volume 3, available on the Committee website at www.parliament.uk/educom
The Treasury Committee concludes that Private Finance Initiative (PFI) funding for new infrastructure, such as schools and hospitals, does not provide taxpayers with good value for money and stricter criteria should be introduced to govern its use. Higher borrowing costs since the credit crisis mean that PFI is now an extremely inefficient method of financing projects. Poor investment decisions may continue to be encouraged across the public sector, however, because PFI allows Government departments and public bodies to make big capital investments without committing large sums up front. There is no convincing evidence that savings and efficiencies during the lifetime of PFI projects offset ...
The fact that there is another bill going through Parliament changing the management structure of the NHS means that there is a tendency for every comment about the NHS to be framed by the debate about the bill. But the NHS is well used to management change. In reality the key pressures which are building in the system arise from the fact that demand is continuing to grow at a time when health and social care budgets have stopped growing. This development has been well signposted. The implications were first highlighted by Sir David Nicholson in May 2009, and endorsed by both the previous government and the Coalition. This report is a review of progress within the health and care system towa...
Additional written evidence is contained in Volume 3, available on the Committee website at www.parliament.uk/healthcom
American education is facing the challenging situation of working with students with disabilities in the regular classroom. Inclusion Practices with Special Needs Students provides a much needed and balanced perspective of the issues faced by educators committed to understanding how to best serve children with disabilities in schools.