Frank's Westminster Blog

When I met some of the Birkenhead families who lost loved ones at Hillsborough they all requested that the government should move swiftly to set aside the grotesque inquest verdicts following the Hillsborough disaster. The government’s senior legal officer, the Attorney General, promised to go back to the High Court as soon as he could to ask for the verdicts to be set aside. He has acted as good as his word. He has made an application to go before the...

Just over a year ago the six local authorities that make up the Merseyside city region formed a poverty and life chances commission. The commission has been set up to look at best practice across the six authorities.  On Friday I chaired a meeting where the key staff involved in the foundation years came together to talk about how they are preparing to ensure that children are ready for school. The mfigures for the region show that something like 40 per cent...