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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 »
The Health and Safety Executive (HSE) has sent its final recommendations to the government on the restriction proposals for lead ammunition in England, Scotland and Wales. This is the culmination of a consultation launched in 2022, which has run alongside the voluntary transition away from lead first proposed by nine leading rural organisations, including BASC,… Read more »
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The relationship between banks and government will never be the same following the current financial crisis, Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has said. Speaking exclusively to politics.co.uk just before Alistair Darling’s Commons statement yesterday, Mr Clegg said wholesale reform of the banking sector had become inevitable. “We will no longer regard banks as just another… Read more »
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has called on David Cameron and Gordon Brown to put aside their party allegiances and adopt a cross-party approach to the economic crisis. Mr Clegg wrote a letter to both his opposite numbers last night, just after it emerged that Washington had rejected a bailout bill for the US economy…. Read more »
