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Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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School leavers will be sent on six-week trips to countries including China and India courtesy of the government. Gordon Brown today announced the Global Fellowship for school leavers initiative, which will send 18-year-olds on six-week trips to emerging economic powerhouses. Pupils will be expected to immerse themselves in the local culture as well as working… Read more »
MPs have condemned the ongoing disruption on the rail network as commuters faced a third day of delays and cancellations. Norman Baker, Liberal Democrat transport spokesman, said the late running engineering works amounted to a “fiasco” from Network Rail, with services still cancelled on the West Coast mainline. Normal service has now resumed at London… Read more »
