Combined time and attendance and security system puts staff safety first
Leave a Comment
Fire crews put out a fire which was the result of a suspected arson attack directed at a nursing home in Gloucestershire. The incident saw a fence catch fire in the grounds of Chestnut Court Nursing Home in Quedgeley. The fire started just before midnight, was put out by firefighters before it spread to the home. A spokeswoman from Gloucestershire Fire and Rescue Service said: "We sent one fire engine and used one hose reel to extinguish the fire. Nobody was hurt."
Time and Attendance South West have been manufacturing, installing and supplying Time and Attendance and clocking solutions since 1991 through our parent company Time and Attendance UK. Our WinTANet combined smart card time and attendance and security system is unbeatable for taking care of your organisation’s safety and security needs – whether you are an office, factory or local authority. Included with the comprehensive PC network set-up is a fire roll call function which automatically prints a report in emergencies, while all your fire and other alarms are integrated within the modular system.
West Somerset Coroner Michael Rose described the European Working Time Directive (EWTD) as a "political matter," but he said hospitals were evidently "running into problems” over restrictions on working hours. He made the comments as he recorded a narrative verdict (not attributing the cause to a named individual) in the case of Roland Holbrow, who was admitted to Musgrove Park Hospital in Taunton but died by the time a doctor saw him. Changes introduced due to the EWTD have severely reduced junior doctors’ working hours, resulting in doctors having to supervise more patients.
Areas such as the South West will suffer badly comparatively when the official list of axed quangos will be published today. These non-departmental public bodies appointed by Ministers to undertake delegated functions outside Whitehall are on the chopping block since the Government wants to save money and improve accountability. The South West, with 9% representation of English quango power (more than the North East, Yorkshire and Humber regions put together), is third only behind the south and east in terms of influence.
Police have arrested a man in connection with a fire at Windmill Hill City Farm, one of Bristol’s city farms. The late night blaze badly damaged the adventure playground building used by a number of organisations from parent and toddler groups to adult learners, and luckily no one was hurt. Avon Fire and Rescue Service was called to the site in Phillip Street. Around a third of the roof was alight and crews had to force their way inside to fight the blaze, while a turntable ladder was used to get water onto the fire from above.
A guarantee that anyone unemployed for more than 18 months would be given a job or work placement and 200,000 new jobs and work placements for the unemployed is the manifesto of Ed Balls. The shadow education secretary has played the employment card as he hopes to defeat the two favourites the Miliband brothers, David and Ed, for the prize of the Labour party leadership. Now the ballot papers are in, the results will be announced at the annual party conference on September 25.
Dave Prentis, general secretary of the Unison public services union, is calling for united action to defeat the government’s "austerity agenda" in one of many TUC attacks on the debt-busting program at Congress. The GMB argues that three-quarters of a million jobs could be at risk. The government is not sending a minister to address the congress but Business Secretary Vince Cable has said he will be willing to speak to representatives to discuss their concerns.
The South West Regional Development Agency (RDA), which channels millions of pounds into this region’s economy every year, is to be abolished. The coalition said it will replace RDAs with Local Enterprise Partnerships. The South West RDA, which employs about 350 people, is responsible for distributing £230m of European Union funds across the region between 2009 and 2011. It runs ventures like the Wave Hub wave energy project off the Cornish coast. An RDA spokesman said: "The RDA network accepts change is coming and we are ready for it."
Devon and Cornwall Police have instituted an 18-month recruitment freeze of officers ahead of expected cuts in public-sector funding. Dozens of prospective officers who had recently been accepted into the force have had their application forms scrapped ahead of expected Government national deficit-cutting measures. By the end of the freeze the force could be around 180 officers down. The force has 3,496 officers and the last intake of 22 new recruits in July will be the last until the freeze is over in 2011.
Government patience seems to have run out with the Audit Commission, which is being axed. Secretary of State for Communities and Local Government Eric Pickles said the public body, which keeps curbs on council spending, had lost its way. Before that, he publically criticised council moves towards fortnightly bin collections, which was something he put the blame on the Commission. The final straw appears to have been the revelation that the Commission splashed out £8,000 on an event at Newmarket racecourse.
Defence Secretary Liam Fox said a visit to Afghanistan this week reminded him that supporting British troops on operations had to take priority over spending on staff in Whitehall. He said: "It brought home to me once again that the prime purpose of what we are doing is to make sure that our Armed Forces on the front line have everything they need, and all the support they require, to carry out their mission successfully and safely. That means that the backroom sometimes has to do without to make sure that the front line gets what it wants."