Party Politics
The Government-backed independent review into political violence and disruption has been published today and recommends teachers to be given legal protections against allegations of ‘blasphemy’. This has been welcomed by Humanists UK, who has been leading the campaign for robust support for teaching staff in response to recent controversies, including the suspension of a teacher in Batley after showing an image… Read more »
The Dental Defence Union (DDU) has raised concerns about the increased workload and accountability for dentists taking on the supervision of provisionally registered colleagues who qualified overseas. Responding to Department of Health and Social Care provisional registration for overseas-qualified dentists the DDU says it has profound misgivings about whether the system being proposed is workable and practical from a workforce and patient safety… Read more »
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By Ian Dunt Gordon Brown has launched the Labour 2010 manifesto in Birmingham, with a pledge to reform both the state and the market. The Labour leader said he wanted a manifesto that could encourage entrepreneurship and innovation, but also one which took lessons from the financial crisis. “In building the future Labour will be… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Tempers have been raised after the Conservatives accused the Labour party of targeting cancer sufferers with leaflets. Thousands of leaflets have been sent out to women saying the Conservatives would scrap Labour guarantees for suspected breast cancer patients. Shadow health secretary Andrew Lansley said the leaflets “shocked” him and demanded an apology… Read more »
