Professor Christine Harrison from the Centre for Lifelong Learning responds to the decision by some large private foster agencies to offer cash incentives in order to recruit foster carers working for English local authorities.

Dr Angela Davis of the University of Warwick History department comments in response to the Government plea to nurseries over free childcare, "Current Conservative government policy seems to be characterised by the desire to increase the number of children attending nursery education, particularly those from disadvantaged backgrounds, but a reluctance to fund it. Their call to nursery providers for ideas about how to increase the number of funded hours for three-year-olds from fifteen to thirty, in line with their manifesto promise, seems emblematic of their quandary."

Following a period in which many GPs have felt undervalued and undermined by successive governments it is pleasing that Jeremy Hunt has recognised in today’s speech the quality and value General Practice delivers to the NHS. Dr Kate Owen a GP and Principal Clincial Teaching Fellow at Warwick Medical School discusses what this means to general practitioners.

The Labour Party plans to guarantee young people independent and face-to-face advice, delivered by careers professionals trained to give information and guidance on academic and vocational qualifications.

Professor Jacqueline Hodgson, Director of the Criminal Justice Centre in the School of Law, gives evidence at a House of Commons Justice Committee enquiry into the Criminal Cases Review Commission (CCRC) report.