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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Gordon Brown has paid tribute to Lord Eric Varley, the former Cabinet minister who died yesterday aged 75. Lord Varley was energy secretary in 1974 and 1975 and served as industry secretary from 1975 to 1979. He had quickly risen up the ranks after serving as parliamentary private secretary to Harold Wilson, then prime minister,… Read more »
Gordon Brown’s holiday may be disturbed by a group of local protestors challenging the government’s coastal policy later this morning. The Blyth Estuary Group is concerned by the Environment Agency’s plans for the Blyth Estuary, which involve a ‘managed realignment’ of the southern river banks. They say the policy of retreat will “have a serious… Read more »
