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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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The government’s determination to roll out pension credits has been at the expense of other measures that could better tackle pensioner poverty, a new report warns. Research by the National Audit Office (NAO) finds while increasing take-up of pensions credit by ten per cent would lift up to 107,000 people out of poverty, doing the… Read more »
The government has today unveiled a radical shake-up of the pensions system, with an increase in the retirement age and new ways to make people save for their old age. Tony Blair said the pensions white paper would create “something that lasts not just for this generation, but for generations to come”, and insisted it… Read more »
