FOI Friday: School places, child exploitation, serial criminals and council home waits

How likely are you to get your child into a school? < Teesside Gazette Hundreds of schoolchildren in Middlesbrough are missing out on a place at their school of preference. Figures from a Freedom of Information request show that while places are in high demand, non of the town’s secondary schools were able to cater

FOI Friday: Ambulance call out hot spots, crisis fund rejections, Premier League policing and missed 101 calls

Most frequent ambulance call out homes < BBC The Welsh Ambulance Service is urging people to think before dialling 999, after one home rang for an ambulance 290 times in a year. Of the call-outs to the property in Colwyn Bay, Conwy, 98 resulted in hospital visits. The service spent 3,660 hours dealing with the

FOI Friday: Crumbling hospitals, pension funds, foreign patients and stolen monkeys

Crumbling hospitals (Press and Journal) The Press and Journal in Aberdeen reports on how it has forced the local NHS authority to reveal the maintainance backlog at hospitals and health centres in its area. The backlog was first reported last month, but NHS Grampian refused to release the exact details. So the P&J turned to