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Next week, Humanists UK will be intervening in a landmark education case at the Northern Ireland Court of Appeal. The case has reached this stage because the Department of Education has chosen to appeal the judgment of May 2022, which found that exclusively Christian RE and worship in Northern Ireland schools is discriminatory. Humanists UK, which… Read more »
The infrastructure of the assurance scheme built by British Game Assurance (BGA) will be transferred to Aim to Sustain (A2S), it was announced today (Monday October 16th). The transfer should be completed later in the Autumn and in the meantime, the scheme remains unchanged and open to new members. Following completion, Aim to Sustain will… Read more »
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Justice secretary Jack Straw has called for a national conversation about the use of prison, after warning it will not be possible to build a way out of the prison crisis. In an interview with the Times, Mr Straw said the prison service needed to consider sending fewer people to jail and instead increase the… Read more »
Up to 1,200 criminals will be released early today to relieve the overcrowded prison system. The former lord chancellor Lord Falconer conceded earlier this month that the government would have to cut short some offenders’ sentences after the prison population reached a record 81,000. His successor Jack Straw confirmed today the scheme would continue for… Read more »
