A new multi-level regression and post-stratification (MRP) poll of 7,000 British adults has shown that in every constituency bar one, most people support legalising assisted dying for the terminally ill and incurably suffering. Humanists UK commissioned the poll from Electoral Calculus, and is releasing it to coincide with Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying for the Terminally Ill Bill…. Read more »
The Medical Defence Union (MDU) is delighted to announce it’s sponsorship of the upcoming NHS Parliamentary Awards ceremony which will be held in Westminster on Monday 14 October 2024. The NHS Parliamentary Awards were created in 2018 for health and care organisations as well as MPs to celebrate and recognise the outstanding achievements of staff, volunteers and others working… Read more »
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Centrally-set targets for secondary schools have served their purpose, according to a report from the Education and Skills Select Committee. The cross-party group of MPs has suggested that the Government should scrap national targets, and allow schools to set their own. The committee’s report stated that the targets introduced since 1997 had ‘met with some… Read more »
The Government is now on course to meets its first target for reducing child poverty, according to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation. But the latest research warns that longer-term goals may be harder to achieve. The projections by researchers at Cambridge university and the London School of Economics – taking into account recent tax credits and… Read more »
