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Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill: Amendments tabled for committee stage in the Lords as at Feb 12

Divorce, Dissolution and Separation Bill: Amendments tabled for committee stage in the Lords as at Feb 12...

Thursday, 13 February 2020 07:33

New bill gives hospitals power to develop personalised treatment

The Medicines and Medical Devices Bill introduces new safety measures, increases the professions that can prescribe low-risk medicines and allows hospitals to develop personalised medicines...

Thursday, 13 February 2020 06:59

Plans to remove funding for courses with low student numbers

Qualifications with low or no enrolments could see funding withdrawn in drive to level up skills and opportunities...

Thursday, 13 February 2020 06:58

HEPI: Students with few or no helpful teachers are 146% more likely to report a high level of dissatisfaction with life

Professor Tim Blackman, Vice-Chancellor of the Open University, has applied sophisticated statistical techniques to the most recent HEPI / Advance HE Student Academic Experience Survey results in order to see which factors most affect student wellbeing...

Thursday, 13 February 2020 00:01

HMI Prisons report on inspection of HMP Dovegate: Settled, well-run and safer

HMP Dovegate, near Uttoxeter in Staffordshire, was found to have made some notable progress over the last two years, becoming a safer prison...

Thursday, 13 February 2020 00:01

National Audit Office report on Local authority investment in commercial property

Some local authorities in England have invested significant public money in buying commercial property over the past three years with the aim of generating a financial return...

Thursday, 13 February 2020 00:01

HMI Prisons report on inspection of HMP Wealstun: Ready availability of drugs undermining good work

HMP Wealstun, a men’s training and resettlement prison in West Yorkshire, presented a contrasting picture of good work undermined by significant weaknesses, particularly the failure to tackle drugs...

Thursday, 13 February 2020 00:01

LGA responds to NAO report on local authority commercial investments

Responding to a report by the National Audit Office on local authority commercial investments, Cllr Richard Watts, Chair of the Local Government Association’s Resources Board, said...

Thursday, 13 February 2020 00:01

Child Poverty Action Group should be a wake-up call to the Government about the impact of Universal Credit, says Labour

Commenting on a study conducted by the Child Poverty Action Group showing that poor families are further below the poverty line than they were seven years ago...

Thursday, 13 February 2020 00:01

Background briefing on the Indian Citizenship (Amendment) Act 2019

The House of Lords Library has published a briefing paper containing a selection of material relevant for the forthcoming debate...

Wednesday, 12 February 2020 18:45