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New hiring toolkit supports care providers with safer recruitment

A first-of-its-kind Better Hiring Toolkit has been launched, providing an essential guide for care sector employers to make informed, safer recruitment decisions...

Friday, 6 January 2023 16:16

Circular 001/2023: Police Regulations 2003 amendments

This circular sets out the amendments made to Annexes F, I and U under the Police Regulations 2003 to implement changes to police pay and temporary salary...

Friday, 6 January 2023 13:31

Pilot projects to tackle the impact of poverty on educational achievement in Wales

A new pilot programme to support Welsh schools in tackling the impact poverty has on attainment has been launched...

Friday, 6 January 2023 12:37

Petition: Remove references to 'gender identity' from relationships education guidance

Since 2020 the DfE has published guidance for relationships and sex education. This says "Pupils should be taught the facts and the law about sex, sexuality, sexual health and gender identity...

Friday, 6 January 2023 09:48

Lords International Relations and Defence Committee to publish report on UK’s defence policy

The cross-party House of Lords International Relations and Defence Committee chaired by Baroness Anelay of St Johns will publish its report on Thursday 12 January. 

Friday, 6 January 2023 09:29

Millions of homeowners and tenants to get better access to faster broadband

New homes in England will be built with gigabit broadband connections and telecoms firms will be able to get faster broadband to nine million people living in blocks of flats across the UK...

Friday, 6 January 2023 09:24

New partnership to boost research into vaccines for cancer

Trials into vaccines for cancer and wider diseases will accelerate after the government reached a historic agreement with a leading biopharmaceutical firm to bring revolutionary research...

Friday, 6 January 2023 00:01

Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on situation in the Middle East

The Status Quo governing Jerusalem’s holy sites preserves peace: UK statement at the Security Council..

Thursday, 5 January 2023 22:21

Treasury publishes economic evidence to the Pay Review Bodies: January 2023

This document sets out the economic, labour market and fiscal context within which the government asks the independent Pay Review Bodies to consider their recommendations...

Thursday, 5 January 2023 22:18

Record numbers of doctors and nurses working in the NHS to ease pressure over winter

A record number of doctors and nurses are working in the NHS in England, delivering extra appointments, speeding up diagnoses and helping to tackle the Covid backlog to ease pressure on the NHS this winter...

Thursday, 5 January 2023 18:15