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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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New GPs will be parachuted into deprived areas in a bid to reduce health inequalities, the government announced today. Health secretary Alan Johnson said today the first new GP practices will open within a year. In October, in his first major speech at the Department of Health (DoH), Mr Johnson made it a government ambition… Read more »
The Department of Health (DoH) has been accused of boom and bust economics after it emerged the NHS is heading for a record surplus. The health service is forecast to record a surplus of £1.8 billion in 2007-08. This is more than triple the £547 million deficit incurred in 2005-06, which prompted a slew of… Read more »
