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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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The Pensions Policy Institute has issued a new report in which it calls for state pension provision to be used to reduce pensioner poverty. More than one in five pensioners lives in relative poverty, and there are concerns that targeted benefits and credits that might raise incomes for the poorest pensioners will suffer from low… Read more »
MPs have called for students from poorer backgrounds to receive grants of up to £5,000 a year. A report from the Commons Education Select Committee argued that poorer students should be helped by increasing the interest rates on loans to those from more affluent backgrounds and using this to increase grants by to up to… Read more »
