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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has expressed concern that doctors will have insufficient time to read and digest the General Medical Council’s (GMC) more detailed guidance (MDG) which has been published today and comes into effect on January 30th 2024, alongside the updated version of its ethical standards Good Medical Practice. The MDGs, cover a… Read more »
Ofsted has called on the Government to take action on illegal schools. The call came in Ofsted’s latest annual report, published yesterday. The report also highlighted that religious education (RE) provision in English state schools is ‘not fit for purpose’, and that independent faith schools perform very badly in Ofsted inspections. Humanists UK, which has led the… Read more »
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Farmers who have waited months for their government subsidy payments will receive interest on all money delayed beyond the end of June, David Miliband has announced. The environment secretary apologised for the “real distress” caused in the past year by the delays to the single payment scheme (SPS), but said that more than 90 per… Read more »
Farmers still waiting for their subsidies to be delivered would be “absolutely livid” to hear of naked antics at the government agency responsible, a union leader has warned. President of the National Farmers’ union (NFU) Peter Kendall said many people who had waited months to be given the single farm payments (SFP) they were entitled… Read more »