Private investors who fund projects that reduce reoffending by ex-prisoners will receive a return from the taxpayer under a scheme launched on Thursday by the government
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FT on 18th Mar 2010 (via traxfer.ft.com)
A PIONEERING project aimed at preventing prisoners on short-term sentences landing back in jail has been launched by justice secretary Kenny MacAskill.
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Scotsman on 26th Jun 2010 (via news.scotsman.com)
Private Eye reports on the Government raising the liability on the Defence Training Review Project: Sweetner & Sour Soon after one half of private consortium Metrix dropped out of the...
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Tigmoo on 8th Mar 2009 (via pcsshropshire.selfip.org)
Over 100 volunteers are heading off to take part in Project Umubano, our Social Action project in Rwanda.
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ConservativeParty on 25th Jul 2008 (via conservatives.com)
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Schools Minister Jim Knight has officially launched the first nationwide Open Source project, the National Digital Resource Bank (NDRB). The new platform will benefit all UK schools that have invested in technologies for putting lessons, coursework and homework online but do not have the digital content to fill them.
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PublicTechnology on 14th Mar 2009 (via publictechnology.net)
Phillip Blond's speech that launched the Progressive Conservatism Project at Demos features in The Independent.
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Demos on 26th Jan 2009 (via demos.co.uk)
I was thinking about this earlier. Prisoners getting the vote. Prisoners are to get the right to vote as the government is poised to throw in the towel in a long-running legal tussle with the European court of human rights, it emerged today. It is understood that the coalition is to confirm that it is
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SimO on 2nd Nov 2010 (via sim-o.me.uk)
The government has had to step in to ensure the £635m project can be built after banks failed to lend enough The Treasury today stepped in to rescue a £635m waste-to-energy project in Greater Manchester, the largest such project in Europe. The scheme, being funded under the private finance initiative, had stalled after banks refused to lend enough to complete it. The project, which wil...
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Guardian on 9th Apr 2009 (via guardian.co.uk)
This season the Conservative Future Social Action Network has re-introduced the Christmas Hamper Project, which was successfully launched for the first time last year. The project looks closer to home and gives those people who are less fortunate a special Christmas. This is our way of making a charitable contribution to our local community as
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BUCF on 21st Nov 2008 (via bucf.wordpress.com)
The Iraqi government is set to execute 128 prisoners, in batches of 20. The death penalty was brought in because of the very high level of disorder, and it clearly hasn't solved anthing. How exactly is the threat of the death penalty supposed to deter a suicide bomber, for example? The government isn't releasing the names of the prisoners or any details of their trials, just like the old...
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Blairwatch on 14th Mar 2009 (via blairwatch.co.uk)