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Government's Apprenticeship Plans "Lacking Ambition" Says Industry Body

21 Mar Education

The British Retail Consortium, which represents major businesses across the UK, has criticised the government's latest plans for apprenticeships, which they say have failed to reform existing schemes in line with industry requests.

22 Jan Education

Childcare Sector Insists Workforce "Has To Grow" To Cope With Free Hours Expansion

05 Jan Education

Childcare Sector Warns Of "Postcode Lottery" For Availability Of Free Hours

11 Dec 2023 Education

Schools Funding Plummets Into Deficit Risking A “Bleak” Future Of Staff Cuts

03 Dec 2023 Education

Former Schools Minister Insists Teachers Must Be Paid More To Avert Staffing Crisis

08 Nov 2023 Education

Tory MPs Want Tax Relief And Top Up Payments To Help Nurseries Fund Free Hours

26 Oct 2023 Education

Hundreds Of Children's Homes Deemed Substandard By Ofsted

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18 Apr Education

The winner of the next election must deal with the costs of botched and delayed projects

16 Apr Education

Truancy trials – meet the parents hit by the single justice procedure

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03 Apr Education

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New Football Law “Could Risk World Cup and Champions League Participation”

17 Apr Culture

Senior Tory Advisers Are "Jumping Before They Are Pushed"

20 Apr Political parties

Scrolls of Doom: Why Gen Z is shunning the church

18 Apr Communities

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06 Feb Education

Supply teacher: How schools became the last outpost of the welfare state

Britain’s welfare state is in retreat – but should schools plug the gap? Sophie Church visits one outpost to see if the model is sustainable

27 Jan Education

'The Home Office shouldn’t have anything to do with children': The Children's Commissioner interview

Children’s commissioner Dame Rachel de Souza tells Sophie Church why Elon Musk needs to take his fatherhood more seriously and why she thinks the Home Office ‘shouldn’t have anything to do with children’

11 Dec 2023 Education

Schools Funding Plummets Into Deficit Risking A “Bleak” Future Of Staff Cuts

English state schools plunged into a financial deficit last year, new figures have shown, with teachers’ leaders warning of a “bleak” future.

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17 Nov 2021 Education

Engineering and tech giants join forces to STEM £1.5bn annual skills gap

Government urged to support ‘Engineering Kids’ Futures’ to tackle gaping engineering skills shortage through primary education drive

Rates of problem gambling are falling, but on the BGC's second anniversary, our commitment to safer gambling is stronger than ever

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06 Nov 2021 Health

Rates of problem gambling are falling, but on the BGC's second anniversary, our commitment to safer gambling is stronger than ever

It’s entirely fitting that the Betting and Gaming Council’s second anniversary should fall during this year’s Safer Gambling Week.

03 Nov 2021 Education

We should introduce a ‘triple lock’ of protections to safeguard against future school closures

Readers will have heard me say before that school closures have been nothing short of a national disaster for our children. Between the outbreak of the pandemic and July 2021, pupils have missed 58 per cent of all classroom time.

What would you do if you had a seat at COP26?

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02 Nov 2021 Environment

What would you do if you had a seat at COP26?

That was the question IKEA posed to MPs and Peers as they gathered in Parliament ahead of this month’s COP26 Summit in Glasgow.

01 Nov 2021 Coronavirus

School Closures Stopped Vulnerable Children Accessing Safeguarding, New Data Suggests

Child safeguarding referrals from schools to local authorities dropped by almost a third during the pandemic, new Office for National Statistics figures analysed by Dods Monitoring have shown.

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27 Oct 2021 Education

IET react to Autumn Budget 2021

Simon Edwards, Director of Governance and External Engagement at the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET), comments on today’s UK Government budget.

21 Oct 2021 Coronavirus

Schools Face Sending Whole Classes Home After Spike In Covid Cases

Unions have warned that schools may soon begin sending home whole classes as a result of a rise in positive Covid cases among pupils and the shortage of supply teachers to keep lessons running.

19 Oct 2021 Coronavirus

MP Calls For "Buffer Zones" Around Schools After Anti-Vaccine Groups Targeted Parents And Children

Labour MP Stella Creasy has urged the government to introduce measures restricting demonstrations in the areas surrounding schools after anti-vaccine protestors have escalated activity targeting children and parents.

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18 Oct 2021 Environment

Further information revealed about RCVS Workforce Summit in November

The RCVS has revealed further details about the Workforce Summit it will be convening in November 2021, which will be powered by its ViVet initiative, to consider how best to respond to the ongoing concerns over staffing shortages and lack of additional capacity to meet demand for veterinary services.

Bridging the digital divide is now a matter of solving the wealth gap

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15 Oct 2021 Coronavirus

Bridging the digital divide is now a matter of solving the wealth gap

From completing the weekly online food order, attending online lessons and video-calling with isolated grandparents during the pandemic; to accessing public services such as claiming universal credit, or more recently ordering lateral flow test kits and completing the census, digital connectivity and skills have become an increasingly essential part of participating in society. It is now abundantly clear that for most of us being online is no longer a luxury but a necessity.

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15 Oct 2021 Health

‘Take Time to Think’ is another step on our journey to keep customers safe and in control of their betting

Today the Betting and Gaming Council is launching a new campaign which is aimed at encouraging the 30 million people in Britain who enjoy a flutter to consider using the range of safer gambling tools at their disposal.

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15 Oct 2021 Health

Betting And Gaming Council launches new ‘Take Time To Think’ campaign in fresh drive to promote safer gambling

Standards body the Betting and Gaming Council has launched a new campaign aimed at encouraging customers to use the wide range of safer gambling tools offered by its members.

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14 Oct 2021 Coronavirus

When it comes to levelling up, the UK’s fractured health outcomes should be high on the agenda

A new report reveals stark disparities in the way Covid-19 affected different areas of the country – so can policy heal the UK’s North-South health divide?

IKEA continues to champion climate action by joining COP26 as a Partner

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06 Oct 2021 Environment

IKEA continues to champion climate action by joining COP26 as a Partner

05 Oct 2021 Education

We need to deliver real substance on ‘levelling up’ or it will become a meaningless sound bite

In the midst of party conference season, the country is facing issues over the cost of living, with rising food and gas prices as a result of a shortage of HGV drivers, and increasing global demand, which is having a huge impact on families across Britain.

05 Oct 2021 Education

We must act to stop our children’s life chances being forever harmed by Covid

As we emerge into a world changed by Covid, we need an education system that gives everyone, no matter their background or where they are in the country, the chance to climb the ladder of opportunity.

Reversing biodiversity decline will require decisive action across our society

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04 Oct 2021 Environment

Reversing biodiversity decline will require decisive action across our society

Amid the urgency of action to tackle climate change, the issue of biodiversity collapse can easily get lost. In the UK and most countries across the world, biodiversity is declining at an alarming rate, yet understanding of the correlation between climate change and biodiversity loss is lacking.

Six decades on, Coca-Cola’s Sidcup site is leading the way on sustainability

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01 Oct 2021 Environment

Six decades on, Coca-Cola’s Sidcup site is leading the way on sustainability

This week the first of our 500ml bottles made from 100% recycled plastic have come off the line at our Sidcup factory. This is just the start of our green journey as we strive to become Net Zero by 2040 – and Sidcup is at the heart of our sustainbility plans

Serious about combatting climate change? - It’s time to talk about the cow in the room

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30 Sep 2021 Environment

Serious about combatting climate change? - It’s time to talk about the cow in the room

Today marks the start of the Pre-COP summit, the last chance for world leaders to discuss climate change mitigation strategies ahead of the upcoming negotiations at the United Nations Climate Change Conference of the Parties (COP26) in November in Glasgow. If COP26 organisers are serious about meeting the Paris Agreement and “keeping 1.5 degrees alive” to limit the potentially catastrophic impact of global warming, it’s crucial that all leading drivers of climate change are acknowledged and addressed. Yet, until now, one topic has remained the cow in the room: intensive animal agriculture.