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The hidden impact of domestic abuse on healthcare professionals has been revealed by the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund (RMBF), in the latest edition of the Medical Defence Union (MDU) journal. The RMBF has seen a significant increase in doctors accessing support as a direct result of domestic abuse. Five years ago the charity, which the MDU… Read more »
The Government’s Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which was announced in the 2024 King’s Speech, will receive its First Reading in Parliament today. Humanists UK has welcomed proposals including a Children Not in School Register and legislation to close loopholes that enable the continued operation of illegal faith schools. The Bill also includes a requirement… Read more »
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MPs have written to Kent police in protest at their use of stop-and-search powers at an environmental demonstration. The week long climate camp near the Kingsnorth power station has met with what protestors are calling “political policing”. The police, for their part, claim some demonstrators arrived with knives. Now Norman Baker and Colin Challen have… Read more »
The question of whether or not to impose green taxes on gas guzzling cars caused division in Westminster again today, with three members of an environmental commission launching a minority report calling the idea ‘retrospective taxation’ while the rest of the committee called for more radical proposals. While the environmental audit commission said the move… Read more »
