Web links for 30th December 2010

30 Dec 2010, by ToUChstone blog in Web links

• End of child trust fund will harm vulnerable children’s life chances, think tank cautions
  "Children and Young People Now" reports that IPPR has warned that the abolition of the child trust fund will be especially harmful for children in care. Maintaining the CTF for these children would cost a mere £14 million a year and help a group of vulnerable young people who have to establish an independent life much earlier than other children.
• The real cost of sacking one council worker
  An analysis by UNISON of the costs in benefits and lost taxes of sacking a local government worker.