Number and cost of coal health compensation claims 'greatly exceeded' initial forecasts
In January 1998, the Department of Trade and Industry (now the Department for Business, Enterprise and Regulatory Reform and the Department for Innovation, Universities and Skills) took responsibility for the accumulated personal injury liabilities of the British Coal Corporation.
This report from the Committee of Public Accounts, 'Coal Health Compensation Schemes'
(HC 350), examines the Department's handling of the two compensation schemes that it introduced.
Children in care suffer ill health and educational
underachievement
Examining the question ‘What is the best way to care for
children unable to grow up with their birth parents?’, this Report also
reviews children’s services reforms carried out under the
Every
Child Matters programme, and puts forward numerous proposals including
creating a Centre of Excellence for Children’s and Families' Services.