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January 4, 2021

Education union calls for all primary schools in England to move learning online

The goverment has taken an indecisive and reckless approach to their central duty to safeguard public health, says the National Education Union.
January 3, 2021

Inquest into death following restraint by police to begin 4 January

Leon Briggs, a black man experiencing a mental health crisis, died following restraint by Bedfordshire police officers.
January 2, 2021

Year of unparalleled pressure leaves exhausted doctors on the brink, says BMA

The Chancellor must deliver on his promise to "give the NHS whatever it needs", said the BMA council chair in his New Year message.
January 1, 2021

National Education Union says government is ignoring SAGE advice

It is clear from SAGE documents that school pupils and school staff are infecting each other, and that school age children have the highest rates of infection, says the National Education Union.
December 31, 2020

Call for domestic abuse bill to reflect lived experience of coercive control

Women's Aid wants to see coercive and controlling behaviour named as a form of harm to children in the Domestic Abuse Bill which enters the House of Lords on 5 January 2021.
December 31, 2020

Public invited to write their own record of pandemic and its effects on mental health

A Year in Our Lives 2020 invites people to reflect and write about what the year has been like for them.
December 30, 2020

Let's have more faith in each other in 2021

Surveys of public attitudes consistently show that, when asked, people tend to be more positive about their own lives, friends, families and communities than they are about the country or the wider world. This could suggest that when we have direct...
December 30, 2020

Teaching union calls for schools and colleges to delay January opening

Teaching union asks Government to release its own modelling of what might happen to cases amongst pupils, parents and staff given the best current understanding of the new variant of the virus.
December 30, 2020

Pandemic has had profoundly unequal adverse effect on disabled people

Select Committee calls for an independent inquiry into the causes of adverse outcomes for disabled people, including the decisions and policies of the Government and public authorities.
December 29, 2020

NUJ condemns execution of dissident journalist

The National Union of Journalists has called on Iran to desist in its persecution and harassment of journalists and media workers.

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