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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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“Taking some of the heat out of the debates we’re currently having about history, race and identity.”
The Department for Education is encouraging schools across the UK to mark One Britain, One Nation day on Friday 25 June with a song. Featuring a chorus with the words “Strong Britain, Great Nation”, the anthem was written by school children at St John’s CE primary school in Bradford. The day is designed to celebrate… Read more »
