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Urgent questions in the Commons on 1) Ukraine Refugee Visas and 2) Homes for Ukraine Scheme - Mar 31

Yvette Cooper (Normanton, Pontefract and Castleford) (Lab)(Urgent Question): To ask the Home Secretary to make a statement on visas for Ukrainian refugees...

Thursday, 31 March 2022 15:31

NEU comments on the national tutoring programme 

Commenting on the ‘simplification’ of tutoring funding for 2022/23, confirmed by the Department for Education today, Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said...

Thursday, 31 March 2022 15:01

No justification for keeping Randstad contract says NASUWT

Commenting on reports that Randstad is to be stripped of the contract to provide the National Tutoring Programme, Dr Patrick Roach, General Secretary of NASUWT – The Teachers’ Union said...

Thursday, 31 March 2022 14:59

Ed Miliband responds to regulators extending deadline for sealing UK fracking sites

Ed Miliband MP, Labour's Shadow Climate and Net Zero Secretary, responding to regulators extending the deadline for Cuadrilla to seal the UK’s only shale gas wells in Lancashire from the end of June 2022 to the end of June 2023, said...

Thursday, 31 March 2022 14:39

NEU comments on covid measures in education settings

Commenting on new advice sent to schools today ahead of further relaxing of safety measures from 1 April, Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union, said...

Thursday, 31 March 2022 14:19

ASCL comment on the government’s ‘Living with Covid’ strategy in schools

Commenting on Department for Education information sent to schools and colleges today about ‘living with Covid’ plans from 1 April, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said...

Thursday, 31 March 2022 12:00

UK medical aid donations to Ukraine hits five million items

More than five million items of medical supplies have now been given to Ukraine by the UK to help the country cope with the medical emergency caused by the Russian invasion, helping to save tens of thousands of Ukrainian lives...

Thursday, 31 March 2022 12:00

Keir Starmer launches Labour's Local Election campaign

Keir Starmer MP, Leader of the Labour Party, Local Election Launch speech in Bury...

Thursday, 31 March 2022 11:59

NAHT comments on changes to National Tutoring Programme

Commenting as the government announce that Randstad will not have the National Tutoring Programme (NTP) contract next year...

Thursday, 31 March 2022 11:43

Foreign Secretary announces sanctions on Putin’s propaganda

The Foreign Secretary has announced 14 new sanctions on Russia propagandists and state media...

Thursday, 31 March 2022 11:17