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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 »
A commitment to tackle firearms licensing delays made during a meeting between BASC and Cumbria Police has been reinforced at a follow-up meeting. Cumbria Police revealed during the latest meeting with BASC that it is making rapid progress and has reduced its backlog of renewals by 57 per cent since the introduction of new resources in… Read more »
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Labour has said that it would offer more help to working parents, with an increase in maternity leave. Trade and Industry Secretary Patricia Hewitt said today that Labour would offer mothers an extra three months’ paid maternity leave by 2007, with the eventual goal being a year’s paid leave by the end of the next… Read more »
Education Secretary Ruth Kelly is to launch a new offensive against the hardcore of truants that account for the majority of those missing school. Official statistics suggest that 40,000 youngsters have returned to school since 1997, with the Government claiming that this is down to initiatives set up by ministers to tackle the problem. Now,… Read more »