Scotland’s Net Zero Secretary today announced the government’s climate change plans, including details on how these new measures will affect deer management in Scotland. The Scottish Government has stated they ‘will build on the current Cairngorms Deer Pilot to develop a national scheme which incentivises increased management and investment in the venison supply chain’. Peter… Read more »
The UK Government must carry out long overdue reform of the teaching of Religious Education (RE) in England to meet the needs of modern society, says Humanists UK in response to another Ofsted review. In its deep-dive report into RE – Deep and meaningful? – Ofsted found that the current curriculum often lacks ‘sufficient substance to… Read more »
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Productivity in the NHS has failed to keep pace with the record sums of monies invested since 1997, the Office for National Statistics reported on Monday. The ONS suggested some £6 billion a year in spending was left unimplemented through bureaucratic inefficiency. ONS researchers concluded that productivity fell between four and eight per cent since… Read more »
The Houses of Parliament are likely to get a dedicated security co-ordinator. The Commons authorities’ agreement to the move in principle was announced in a written answer to the House this afternoon, according to the BBC. This year has seen a number of embarrassing breaches of Commons security. In March two Greenpeace protestors managed to… Read more »