Levelling Up
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 new report from the Public Accounts committee (PAC) has accused the government of failing to be transparent over the “gambling” of billions in funding awards for “Levelling Up” programmes. PAC sat that ministers finalised the principles for awarding the first round of £1.7 billion of Levelling Up funds only once they knew the identities… Read more »
The Department for Business has announced its intention to publish a draft bill to revamp the UK audit regime and cut EU red tape. Officials hope reforms will boost big business accountability and help British businesses operate with more agility and investment. The move will reduce the risk of large companies collapsing, thus, increasing job… Read more »
