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Banning snares including modern humane cable restraints in Wales will remove an essential conservation tool and could result in local extinctions, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation has warned. The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), which has its head office in north Wales, is now calling on the Welsh Government to rethink proposed… Read more »
Phoenix Insights, the think tank addressing the challenge of longer lives, is calling on businesses to boost economic growth by supporting lifelong learning opportunities among mid and late-career workers, including giving clearer job and career progression assurances for those who retrain Never Too Late to Learn report says UK lags behind other OECD countries in its… Read more »
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The government has launched a new web-based tool to help reduce the life expectancy gap between England’s wealthiest and most deprived areas. Currently the average man in England can expect to live until 76.9 years of age and the average woman 81.1 years. But in the 70 ‘Spearhead’ areas singled out by the government for… Read more »
The government will ask young people to behave as part of a promised crackdown on youth violence. Jacqui Smith said the government wants to dramatically increase the number of anti-social behaviour contracts (ABCs) issued, to nip low-level offending “in the bud”. These are voluntary agreements signed between offenders and police and local services. In signing… Read more »
