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The Government-backed independent review into political violence and disruption has been published today and recommends teachers to be given legal protections against allegations of ‘blasphemy’. This has been welcomed by Humanists UK, who has been leading the campaign for robust support for teaching staff in response to recent controversies, including the suspension of a teacher in Batley after showing an image… Read more »
The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has raised concerns about the increased workload and accountability for dentists taking on the supervision of provisionally registered colleagues who qualified overseas. Responding to Department of Health and Social Care provisional registration for overseas-qualified dentists the DDU says it has profound misgivings about whether the system being proposed is workable and practical from a workforce and patient safety… Read more »
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The House of Commons Environment, Food and Rural Affairs Committee has called for a ban on the export of all plastic waste from the UK by 2027 to reduce the country’s contribution to global plastic waste pollution. In its report, ‘The price of plastic: ending the toll of plastic waste’, the MPs argue that the… Read more »
Fresh elections to the Northern Ireland Assembly will not now be held until the new year, the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland has this morning confirmed. With the Democratic Unionist party refusing to nominate a candidate for the position of deputy first minister since the May 2022 elections, the UK government came under a… Read more »
