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Rubbish music, chatbots and online queues: welcome to your life lived on hold

Last year British taxpayers spent 800 years waiting to speak to HMRC. This is the price of a world digitised on the cheap, says freelance journalist Elle Hunt

The Guardian - UK

Ministers clawing back £251m from carers hit by DWP’s allowance failures

‘Strikingly large’ sum being recouped from people who fell foul of system that did not flag overpayments

The Guardian - UK

All parents, working or not, should have access to childcare, say experts in England

Rescue and reform manifesto from Early Education and Childcare Coalition calls for overhaul of model

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HMRC leaves callers on hold ‘for 800 years’, says spending watchdog

Report suggests time taxpayers spent on phone waiting to speak to adviser has more than doubled

The Guardian - UK

MPs call on spending watchdog to investigate DWP overpayments to carers

Select committee says scale of problem, carers’ testimony and cost to taxpayer warrants second inquiry into benefits system

The Guardian - UK

Hailed as a hero and then sacked: the carer’s allowance whistleblower

Enrico La Rocca helped expose profound failures but less than a year later was dismissed by the DWP – and then later rehired

The Guardian - UK

England childcare scheme may struggle to deliver places, finds ‘damning’ report

Watchdog says only a third of local authorities are confident they will have enough places for September

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Peter Hain calls for inquiry into MoD’s alleged role in Saudi bribes scandal

Government auditors must look into claims of complicity in corruption on arms deals with UK, says Labour peer

The Guardian - UK

Post-Brexit new-look Foreign Office should ditch 'colonial-era pictures on the walls'

Brexit offers chance to look anew at UK foreign policy, Lord Sedwill and other experts say

Evening Standard

Al-Yamamah arms deal report comes to light ending anti-corruption campaigners’ battle

Inquiry by National Audit Office into British-Saudi arms contract reveals evidence of MoD deception over bribery allegations

The Guardian - UK

‘Chronic’ low pay hurting civil service staff morale and recruitment, say MPs

Public accounts committee finds real-terms median pay has decreased for most Whitehall staff since 2013

The Guardian - UK

UK Spending Watchdog Warns On Govt Migrant Housing Costs

The UK government's controversial use of former military bases and a barge to house asylum seekers is set to cost more than continuing to use hotels, a public-spending watchdog said Wednesday.

International Business Times

UK heat pump rollout criticised as too slow by public spending watchdog

Installations must speed up 11-fold as advisers say latest changes to scheme likely to make 2028 target even harder

The Guardian - UK

Government failing targets to fix UK railway system, watchdog reports

All ‘high level benefit’ targets missed and only three-quarters forecasted to be achieved by 2024/25, according to NAO

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Evening Standard

More than 300 migrants crossed Channel on day girl, 7, drowns

The child had been travelling with her pregnant mother in a boat carrying 16 people when it capsized

The Guardian - UK

Dozens of ‘major’ compliance breaches at Bank of England, NAO reports

National Audit Office reviews Bank’s actions to reduce non-financial risks since scandals but acknowledges ‘good progress’

The Guardian - UK

Spending watchdog launches investigation into Sellafield

National Audit Office to examine risks and costs at nuclear waste site in Cumbria

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The hard truth is that Britain’s entrepreneurs simply don’t innovate

Billions in tax relief is showered on UK small businesses in the belief that they are transforming the economy. They aren’t

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Questions over £22bn in UK billpayer cash handed to wood-burning firms

Spending watchdog calls for biomass subsidy scheme to have tougher environmental requirements

International Business Times UK

Authorities Investigate £60 Million Student Loan Scam Targeting Higher Education Funding

The illicit scheme allegedly involves the creation of fake student identities and the manipulation of loan disbursements.

The Guardian - UK

Organised crime may be profiting from student loan fraud worth £60m – report

Gaps in regulation over franchise university providers leaving funding unprotected, according to National Audit Office

The Guardian - UK

UK wasting ‘tens of billions’ on crumbling infrastructure and badly run projects

Spending watchdog says smarter government can find huge savings for better public services

The Guardian - UK

Why 140,000 pupils are ‘severely absent’ from school in England – and what we can do about it

Redundancies, lack of funding, and a pandemic have all contributed to a huge rise in children missing from class. Now a bold new initiative aims to solve the problem

The Independent UK

Sunak flood response too slow and not enough, says Starmer

Labour leader promises to launch pre-emptive taskforce every autumn to help prepare

The Guardian - UK

UK government is not prepared for climate disasters, says spending watchdog

Cabinet Office does not have strategy to ensure resilience to extreme weather, says National Audit Office

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