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Earlier this week Full Fact pointed out that the Metro, Times and i newspapers had all misreported the Royal College of Nursing's report on cuts to nursing jobs.
Today, the Metro became the first of these papers to set the record straight by printing the following correction on page two:
Today the Government announced that families are to be given 'personal budgets' for their children with Special Educational Needs (SEN). The reforms are also expected to reduce the number of schoolchildren who are identifed as having SEN.
Ministers argue that this is necessary, pointing to research released two years ago by Ofsted which suggested that many pupils were being wrongly diagnosed with SEN.
The Guardian today featured an informative article on their Bike Blog, running with the headline:
Yesterday the Defence Secretary Philip Hammond announced a change in policy on fighter aircraft for the Royal Navy’s aircraft carriers.
The Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration John Vine today hit the headlines after he criticised the time passengers were having to wait to clear border control at Heathrow airport.
A report released by his office today highlighted problems in the data collected by the UK Border Agency (UKBA) on the length of queues at the airport.
The work of Full Fact is "absolutely complementary" to the role of the UK Statistics Authority, the new Chairman of the watchdog has said.
Speaking to the Independent's Economics Editor Ben Chu, Andrew Dilnot said that he was delighted at the emergence of factchecking organisations which seek to foster better understanding of official stats, and tackle misrepresentations of the numbers.
The Cabinet agreed yesterday that Ministers will not exercise the right to request redactions of evidence submitted to the Leveson inquiry.
Yesterday Full Fact, the Media Standards Trust, Index on Censorship and English Pen made an urgent application to the Leveson Inquiry for transparency regarding Government ministers' new status as 'core participants' in the Inquiry.
Dear Boris,
Congratulations on your recent re-election as Mayor of London.
During Mayoral questions on 23 March last year, you told the London Assembly that “public trust in statistics is critically important in a democracy”.
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