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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 The world’s first payment-by-results scheme for rehabilitating prisoners is getting underway today. Three thousand short-sentence inmates at Peterborough prison will be the subject of a pilot scheme giving private investors the opportunity to make money from the government – if they succeed. Businesses have provided £5 million of social impact bonds which… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Prison overcrowding and poor management have been blamed for the limited progress prisoners serving short sentences make towards rehabilitation while in jail, a report has found. The National Audit Office (NAO) pointed out a number of difficulties with short-sentenced prisoners, whose daily activities were judged “generally inadequate”. Over 60,000 prisoners serve sentences… Read more »
