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MPs have voted 379 to 137 to back an amendment to take abortion out of English and Welsh criminal law for women in relation to their own pregnancies. Humanists UK has long been alarmed about the growing number of women facing police investigations for this. Today it has expressed delight at MPs standing up for… Read more »
Humanists UK’s Chief Executive Andrew Copson has been awarded an OBE for ‘services to the non-religious’ in the UK national honours announced today. This is the first time an award has been made for services to the non-religious, who now represent a majority of the UK’s population. Andrew Copson has worked for Humanists UK since… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff There is “widespread disappointment” in the government’s flagship school-building programme, an influential group of MPs has warned. The Commons’ public accounts committee says poor planning and “persistent over-optimism” have been responsible for the problems faced by the Building Schools for the Future (BSF) initiative. Its report acknowledges that centralising the programme’s management… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Science tests for year six primary school pupils have been scrapped by the government. Children’s secretary Ed Balls told the Commons they would be replaced by a more relaxed system of teacher assessment, in line with the conclusions of a report by the expert group on assessment out today, from next year…. Read more »
