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Early sight of oral questions to the Secretary of State for Health and Social Care - Jul 23

Alice Macdonald (Norwich North): What assessment his Department has made of the effectiveness of the NHS dental contracting framework....

Thursday, 18 July 2024 07:14

NFER: Shifting career motivations are not to blame for worsening teacher shortages

NFER has published a new analysis feature which explores the under-studied question of how shifting career motivations might be contributing to the teacher supply challenge...

Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01

ASCL comment on NFER report on worsening teacher shortages

Responding to analysis from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), which states that increasingly uncompetitive pay...

Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01

UK off track for Net Zero, say country’s climate advisors

The Climate Change Committee’s assessment is that only a third of the emissions reductions required to achieve the country’s 2030 target are currently covered by credible plans...

Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01

Turning point for social care as the sector launches a Workforce Strategy

The launch of a new Workforce Strategy for adult social care in England today is being hailed as a turning point for care – as new data shows the sector still has a vacancy rate around three times higher than the wider economy...

Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01

New report by HEPI and the GW4 Alliance (Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter Universities) calls on Government to fix the gap in childcare support for postgraduate students

The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and GW4 (an alliance of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter universities) have jointly published a report entitled Who cares? How postgraduate parents fall through the gap for government childcare grants, and how to fix it...

Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01

Reactions to Committee for Climate Change report

Responding to the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) latest assessment that only a third of the emissions reductions required to achieve the country’s 2030 interim Net Zero target are currently covered by credible plans...

Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01

Nuffield Trust: New government must urgently tackle illegal underpayment of wages in social care

The new government must immediately address the problem of low pay in adult social care by tackling illegal underpayment of wages...

Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01

CBI responds to climate change committee net zero assessment

Tania Kumar, CBI Net Zero Director, said...

Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01

Action needed to convert interest in teaching into recruits says NAHT

Responding to a new study by the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER) which found that young people are still interested in teaching...

Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01