NFU President’s New Year message
NFU President Minette Batters said: “2020 was a year like no other and we enter the new year with the UK, and British farming, beginning a new era...
Thursday, 31 December 2020 00:01
Keir Starmer’s New Year message - Stay safe, keep up the national effort and be optimistic for 2021
Keir Starmer will commit the Labour Party to focusing on “greater prosperity, fairness and opportunity for every nation and region” of the United Kingdom...
Wednesday, 30 December 2020 22:30
Labour analysis reveals NHS staff were working more than 1.1 million hours of unpaid overtime every week even before Covid-19
New figures published today shows that NHS staff worked a huge 1.1 million hours of unpaid overtime every week before the pandemic struck...
Wednesday, 30 December 2020 22:30
Labour demands Government redoubles efforts to roll out vaccine with aim to vaccinate at least two million a week
With the approval of the Oxford/Astra Zeneca vaccine, Jonathan Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, today (Thursday) says the country is in "a race against time" to roll out mass vaccinations...
Wednesday, 30 December 2020 22:30
School contingency plans to be implemented as cases rise across the country
The government has today, Wednesday 30 December, responded to rapidly rising case rates due to the new, more transmissible variant of coronavirus by triggering the education contingency framework and pushing back the staggered return for secondary schools and colleges by one week...
Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:07
ASCL responds to government announcement on spring term arrangements
Responding to the Education Secretary’s announcement today on arrangements for the spring term in England, Geoff Barton, General Secretary of the Association of School and College Leaders, said...
Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:05
School leaders comment on school closures in January
Paul Whiteman, general secretary of NAHT, which represents leaders in the majority of schools, said...
Wednesday, 30 December 2020 17:04
Education Secretary sets out school contingency plans for England
Gavin Williamson addressed the House of Commons to update on the return to education settings in January...
Wednesday, 30 December 2020 16:52
NEU responds to the Government’s announcement on the return to school in January
Commenting on today’s announcement by the Secretary of State for Education, Gavin Williamson, Dr Mary Bousted, Joint General Secretary of the National Education Union said...
Wednesday, 30 December 2020 16:50
NASUWT statement on the reopening of schools
Responding to the statement on schools reopening NASUWT General Secretary Dr Patrick Roach said...
Wednesday, 30 December 2020 16:49