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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The number people becoming homeless has fallen by 20 per cent, according to the latest official figures. The Office of the Deputy Prime Minister revealed a 20 per cent drop in the first quarter of 2005, on the same period last year, of the number of people councils accepted as homeless. The Government has put… Read more »
The Government’s plans for schools to open from ‘dawn to dusk’ have been unveiled by Education Secretary Ruth Kelly. Under the plans, schools would open between 08:00 BST and 18:00 BST to provide working parents with a reliable source of childcare and offer children a variety of activities, from sport to music tuition to homework… Read more »
