child poverty
Responding to today’s announcement that the GMC is seeking views on a revised version of Good medical practice, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said that it will be scrutinising the significant changes being proposed. The MDU, the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, explained that regulations must be compatible with the realities of doctors’ working lives and… Read more »
BASC, the UK’s largest shooting and conservation organisation, has expelled for life a member convicted of wildlife crime and firearms offences. Expulsion from BASC involves the loss of shooting insurance, on which the ability to shoot may depend, and other benefits of membership. The member from Nottinghamshire pleaded guilty to unlawfully trapping and beating to… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Children in poverty are held back by parents’ refusal to adopt an old-fashioned “tough love” approach, Frank Field has said. Mr Field, though a Labour MP, is the coalition’s ‘poverty tsar’ tasked with improving social mobility. In an article in the Telegraph, he stressed that foundation education efforts should be focused earlier,… Read more »
By Tobias Benedetto Child benefit increases could be paid for by taxing benefit for middle and higher earners to give a boost to the incomes of poorer families and reduce child poverty, a thinktank has said. Child benefit is likely to be one of the key areas of spending targeted by the new government as… Read more »
