IFS: 1.5 million currently excluded from claiming SEISS could easily be supported by government at modest cost
The government has provided huge amounts of financial support to working people since the start of the pandemic...
Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:01
ASCL comment on Generation Z mental health report
Commenting on the report by the Education Policy Institute and The Prince’s Trust on the mental health and wellbeing of Generation Z, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said...
Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:01
ASCL responds to PAC report on college finances
Responding to the report of the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee on the financial sustainability of colleges...
Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:01
New funding boost to get young people get into work
Employers can now apply for a £1000 cash boost to help them take on new trainees, Apprenticeships and Skills Minister, Gillian Keegan has announced today...
Wednesday, 27 January 2021 00:01
Labour responds to reports about plans for hotel quarantine
Nick Thomas-Symonds MP, Labour’s Shadow Home Secretary, responding to reports that Boris Johnson has rejected calls by Priti Patel for a temporary closure of the borders...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 23:32
Labour calls for ‘wartime juries’ to clear backlog of criminal cases
Labour is calling on the government to temporarily reduce the size of juries from 12 to seven, alongside speeding up the roll-out of Nightingale courts...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:30
UN chief calls for urgent action against neo-Nazis in Holocaust remembrance message
More must be done to thwart neo-Nazis and white supremacists who are using the COVID-19 pandemic to target minorities, increase their ranks and re-write history...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:26
Normalisation should help deliver Israeli-Palestinian peace, says Ambassador Woodward
Statement by Ambassador Barbara Woodward, UK Permanent Representative to the UN, at the Security Council briefing on the Middle East...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:18
NEU and Daily Mirror launch Help a Child to Learn appeal with £1m for schools
In recognition of the extraordinary challenges faced by schools in England and Wales, the National Education Union and the Daily Mirror today launch an appeal...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 22:14
DCMS committee hears evidence from the Information Commissioner on online harms and the ethics of data
A sub-committee of the Digital, Culture, Media and Sport Select Committee today took evidence on the subject of online harms and the ethics of data from Elizabeth Denham CBE, Information Commissioner...
Tuesday, 26 January 2021 20:03