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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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By Alex Stevenson Those who have lost their jobs because of the recession could be teaching in schools within six months under a fast-track training scheme announced today. The initiative, unveiled as part of the government’s public services reform agenda, will help the highest-performing mid-career candidates who have lost jobs to become qualified teachers within… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The Conservatives have expressed concern over the number of teachers off sick, which they claim reaches 15,000 every day. The Tories” target=”_blank”>text claim that last year, over 300,000 teachers – more than half the workforce – accounted for the loss of almost three million working days due to sick leave. They claim… Read more »
