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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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By Peter Wozniak Andy Burnham has issued a stinging attack on the Liberal Democrats pupil premium policy, saying they have been duped by their coalition partners. The new shadow education secretary continued the adversarial stance of his predecessor Ed Balls, calling the government’s pupil premium “a con”. Speaking in an interview with Sky News, Mr… Read more »
