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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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Population figures used by the government to establish funding levels for local authorities are unworkably inaccurate, MPs have warned. A report published today by a sub-committee of the Commons’ Treasury select committee concludes the problem is an urgent one because of the increasingly volatile nature of Britain’s population. It urges the government to stop using… Read more »
A plan to achieve £57 million of efficiency savings at the Department of Transport (DfT) will instead cost the taxpayer £81 million, the National Audit Office (NAO) says. It reveals efforts to making the savings by sharing human resources, payroll and finance services have backfired. “Poor initial implementation” is blamed for the failure alongside incorrect… Read more »
