by Agency Reporter | Mar 8, 2024 | Briefing
IN the first of its kind, the British Medical Association (BMA) has published a guide setting out how physician associates should work safely – the scope of responsibilities for Medical Associate Professionals (MAPs), including physician associates (PAs) and...
by Staff Writer | Mar 8, 2024 | Briefing
THE Church of Scotland is backing a new campaign to encourage people to sign up to vote in the next General Election. The Voter Registration Champion scheme is targeting voters at risk of not being able to have their say because they have not registered in time to...
by Staff Writer | Mar 7, 2024 | Briefing
THE Chancellor’s Budget Statement ignored climate breakdown, did almost nothing for people in poverty, and introduced tax cuts which largely benefit the rich and will further degrade public services, say social justice and environmental campaigners. Danny...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 7, 2024 | Briefing
UN EXPERTS have expressed deep concern following the 23 February 2024 ruling of the United Kingdom’s Court of Appeal in Shamima Begum’s case. “Begum remains stripped of her citizenship, vulnerable, and denied assistance and protection as a possible victim of...
by Jill Segger | Mar 6, 2024 | Commentary
WAR, violence, a climate crisis. Cruelty, deceit, self-interest, division and corruption. There is a great deal of darkness in our world. There is much to make us despairing and cynical. It is easy to lose a grip on hope, to cease to believe that there may be goodness...
by Staff Writer | Mar 6, 2024 | Briefing
SOME of the most vulnerable children in the country are being stripped of their clothing under restraint, with far too little oversight and accountability and inappropriate use of pain-inducing techniques, a report by HM Chief Inspector of Prisons has found. While all...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 6, 2024 | Briefing
MEMBERS of Christian Climate Action are celebrating after major insurance company, Probitas 1492, confirmed that it will never insure two major new fossil fuels projects – the East African Crude Oil Pipeline (EACOP) and the proposed West Cumbria coal mine. Members of...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 5, 2024 | Briefing
MEN would benefit more than women from the Chancellor’s rumoured plans to cut National Insurance Contributions (NICs) by one percentage point, at a cost of about £4.5 billion a year. Lone mothers would gain the least of working age groups at £40 per year, compared to...
by Agency Reporter | Mar 5, 2024 | Briefing
TENS of thousands of unpaid carers and their families, already at financial breaking point, could face disaster if a vital Government scheme to help vulnerable households ends, Carers Trust has warned. The Household Support Fund, allocated to local authorities to...
by Bernadette Meaden | Mar 4, 2024 | Commentary
WHY has the election of a single MP in a northern town got the political and media establishment so rattled – and why now? George Galloway has been elected as an MP several times in the past, and his election then did not elicit such a reaction. His character and...
