Bridget Phillipson
Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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Labour has today branded the government’s new childcare plans “pathetic”. The government said that in order to “drive down costs for providers and parents” it will consider slashing required staff-to-child ratios from 1:4 to 1:5 for two-year-olds. Childcare for children aged 0-2 is the most expensive for providers to deliver, largely given the need for higher… Read more »
