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BASC condemns Crimestoppers campaign against law-abiding firearms owners The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has today condemned a new campaign launched in Cumbria by Crimestoppers which encourages the public to make anonymous accusations against licensed firearms holders. “Crimestoppers are inviting people to make secret accusations with a 100 per cent guarantee that the… Read more »
Humanists UK has welcomed a ‘landmark’ recommendation from the Government’s Curriculum and Assessment Review to add Religious Education (RE) to the National Curriculum in England after a thorough review of its content to be conducted by an expert group in the coming months. Humanists UK has advocated for this for many decades and today hailed… Read more »
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By Alex Stevenson Less than a quarter of government funding aimed at giving carers a break to go on holiday has been used in this way, new figures have shown. A freedom of information request by the Princess Royal Trust for Carers showed that in 2009/10, primary care trusts planned to use just 23% of… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Nick Clegg wants to reallocate spending contained in the personal care at home bill to provide a week’s holiday for the country’s hardest-working carers. He is set to announce in a speech later that he would back the switching of £460 million of spending to give those caring unpaid for over 50… Read more »
