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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 politics.co.uk staff Ed Miliband has lambasted the government for its decision to remove all funding for Booktrust, a charity which provides free books to children to encourage literacy. Booktrust currently receives £13 million through the Department for Education. It runs a series of programmes targeted at infants, children starting primary school and eleven-year olds…. Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Liberal Democrat MP Adrian Sanders has hit out at his party’s leadership, claiming a huge gulf exists between Nick Clegg’s team and grassroots activists. The Torbay MP, who was first elected to parliament in 1997, used a festive blog post to deliver his unseasonally grumpy message. “Unlike the bulk of the Liberal… Read more »
