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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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Labour will today pledge to “turn the page on Tory sleaze” if it wins the next election, with deputy leader Angela Rayner set to flesh out party plans for an ethics watchdog for ministerial standards. In a speech to the Institute for Government, Ms Rayner is expected to renew a commitment to “stop the rot”… Read more »
The government is “seeking further” legal advice over messages allegedly sent by Nadine Dorries to civil servants promising to get to the bottom of why she was not granted a peerage, the cabinet secretary said today. Simon Case, who is the UK’s top civil servant, this morning attended a hearing of the Public Administration and… Read more »
