

The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has raised the importance of recognising the challenges faced by gamekeepers and the physical and mental health benefits of shooting within the Environment Food Rural Affairs (EFRA) committee’s mental health inquiry. The wide-ranging inquiry launched in November 2021 will set out recommendations about how the government can… Read more »
The government’s new environmental land management schemes are an open door for management practices undertaken for shooting and conservation, says the British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC). The two new schemes unveiled by the Secretary of State for Defra George Eustice at the Oxford Farming Conference will play a pivotal role in the Governments’… Read more »
“We believe that someone else will clear up the mess, because that is what someone else has always done.”
The government will seek to grant all employees the right to request flexible working. The plans, published today by the department for business, will, according to the government, allow 2.2 million more people the right to request flexible working. The proposed changes would permit all UK employees to request flexible working arrangements from day-one of… Read more »