An investigation of police working regimes found that some spend more time a year at home than on the job, due to the way shifts are set up. The police inspectorate also found that more uniformed police are on duty on quiet Monday mornings, when they should least be needed, than at any other time of the week.

Time and Attendance UK Ltd’s state of the art single time clock time and attendance solutions will result in greater productivity and save your business time and money – do not follow the example of other bodies that have been criticised for waste. Birmingham City Council’s administration of the Working Neighbourhoods Fund is under attack.

The coalition government is bidding to reduce NHS management costs by 45 per cent over the next four years, and as a result many thousands will lose their jobs in the biggest shake-up since the health service was born. This is because all primary care trusts (PCTs) will be axed in three years’ time, and the management of care will be taken on by groups of family doctors.

The risk of falling victim to crime has plummeted to its lowest level in nearly 30 years. The British Crime Survey announced that for England and Wales the risk of becoming a victim of crime last year was 21.5 per cent, the lowest since the survey, based on interviews, started in 1981 (27.7%). The risk was 23.3% in 2008/09 and reached a peak of 29.7% in 1995. Burglaries, incidents of criminal damage and offences against vehicles continue to have high unsolved rates.

British workers pull 35 million "sickies" a year, which is a quarter of the total for the whole of Europe, research has found. Brits were nearly twice as likely to feign an illness as Germans and five times more likely than the Danes, Aon Consulting found. The firm said: "Fictitious sick leave is costing the UK economy millions." The study found that Danes were the least likely to fabricate illness to get time off work.

Police numbers peaked during the last 15 years, but that is soon set to end. The Home Office, which funds police forces, like every other government department will face cuts of around a quarter in the bid to clamp down on the national debt. The forces acknowledge there will be cutbacks and admit they have to deal with budget pressures caused by the economic climate.

Agreeing a pay deal with the Communication Workers Union means British Telecom has prevented possible strike action. On Monday, the union had to call off a ballot that could have brought more than half of BT’s staff out on strike following legal advice. It described the agreement as a "fantastic deal" for its members.

Problems arose – despite polls being open for 15 hours – with people being denied a vote in the recent 2010 general election because queues were too big or staffing too small at polling stations. Every returning officer, normally the local council chief executive, is entitled to collect a separate fee for their election work in addition to their usual salary. It can be as much as £25,000 per election.

Time and Attendance UK Ltd’s expertise and real world experience in installing sophisticated electronic systems for more than a decade in the human resources and time and attendance sectors has been rewarded. They and controlling company Tensor have been awarded the SAFEContractor Certificate for the high standard of health and safety (H&S) procedures attained.