Gillian Keegan
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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A coordinated series of strikes involving teachers, civil servants, Border Force staff and train drivers, will see up to half a million workers go on strike across Britain today. It marks the single biggest day of industrial action for more than a decade. Around 85% per cent of the 23,000 state schools in England and… Read more »
Education secretary Gillian Keegan has said she believes that 16-year-olds are old enough to make a decision on changing gender. Ms Keegan told Sky News that she was “working at 16, I was paying tax at 16, I could make decisions for myself at 16” in answer to a question over whether it was too… Read more »
