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The article reports on the proposal of Great Britain's Statistics Authority for the Census in Wales and England in March 2011. The proposal will be presented to the Parliament and the National Assembly for Wales in a Government White Paper on December 11, 2009. The content of the Census 2011 has been driven primarily by the requirements and demands of the wide range Census users and the evaluation of the 2001 Census. It cites several proposed questions for the 2011 Census including religion, language and general health.

Sustainability of water quantity management is largely associated with the provision of environmental flows. However, the implementation of environmental flows has been problematic, particularly when water needed for the environment has already been allocated to other uses. The potential rebalancing of allocations brings other aspects of sustainability to the fore, namely distributional and procedural justice. This paper reviews the Catchment Abstraction Management Strategies (CAMS) programme established in England and Wales in 2001 with the aim of creating a 'sustainable' balance between water users and the environment. A review of CAMS outcomes from the first 4 years of implementation found that the 'sustainable' balance achieved broadly equates to maintenance of the status quo. This is in part because, without appreciation of the inequities in abstraction rights and the lack of tools for their management, constrictions on environmental improvement remain. Increased transparency of these inequities and constraints is proposed as a priority for procedural justice and as a basis for further decision making regarding allocations. The case study has shown that to move beyond the platitudes of sustainability to real changes for environment and society, the history and institutions of environmental management, distributive justice and procedural justice must be critically reviewed and challenged. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article reports on Wales education debates in the Wales Assembly, the House of Commons and the House of Lords in Great Britain from April 25 to 29, 2005. Jane Davidson (Lab, Pontypridd), the Minister for Education and Lifelong Learning, proposed the approval of the Head Teachers' Qualifications and Registration (Wales) Regulations 2005. This proposal to make the qualification mandatory in Wales by 2005 was set out in the 1999 Green Paper, The Best for Teaching and Learning. Mark Isherwood (Con, North Wales) proposed an amendment recommending a delay in the implementation, until further consultation has been carried out with head teachers organizations.

The article offers information on the education white paper of the government of Wales which focus on raising the educational standards. It states that the proposed legislation included in the white paper allow for local authorities to intervene in the school. It mentions that teachers unions warned that head teachers must not be blamed on the performance of the school. It says that the report from Estyn on the deteriorating state of the education in Great Britain contributes to the white paper.

The article discusses various issues related to Great Britain Office for National Statistics (ONS) as of March 2012. These issues include the completion of the 2011 Census in England and Wales, the upcoming workshop on analytical products that will detail ONS' proposals and plans, and ONS' efforts to publish the traditional General Report of the Census in England and Wales. The British Urban and Regional Information Systems Association's (BURISA) will reportedly provide an update of each ONS review as they become available. It also explores BURISA's plans to release a three-monthly newsletter about ONS progress and links to relevant research and discussion papers.

The article focuses on the issues related to Department for Education and Skills (DfES). The contrast between the education system in Great Britain and Wales has started to widen since the creation of the Welsh Assembly Government. The structural differences will not only increase significantly but amount to a schism with the publication of the White Paper in great Britain. It seemed that the whole of Wales believes that the DfES has got it wrong and educationalists in Wales are breathing a collective sigh of relief.