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Ofsted inspection process ‘isn’t working’, shadow education secretary tells headteachersA Labour government would create an annual review of safeguarding in schools as concerns about children’s safety and wellbeing are being “missed” due to “infrequent…
Walkout will cause even more disruption than recent action by nurses, ambulance staff and physiotherapistsNext week’s strike by junior doctors will lead to unprecedented “major disruption” of the NHS and affect thousands of patients’ care, the service’…
Powers had been doubled less than a year ago to tackle backlog in courts and cut prison overcrowdingSentencing powers for magistrates have been scaled back less than a year after they were doubled in an effort to tackle the courts backlog.In May, the M…
Head of one Hertfordshire school in survey of 14- to 18-year-olds says it has led to rise in sexual abuseA major new survey of British schoolchildren’s attitudes to pornography has found significant numbers of young people aged between 14 and 18 are wa…
FDA to require information about density of breast tissue – which can make cancer harder to spot – to be given to patientsAll US women getting mammograms will soon receive information about their breast density observed during the test, which can somet…
Exclusive: union says severely ill patients being discharged as they are not getting better quickly enoughSeverely unwell eating disorder patients who are not responding to treatment are being discharged owing to a rationing of care, the Royal College …
The disease, which has killed 1,500 people since last March, has been aggravated by heavy rains and an overburdened health systemMalawi’s cholera outbreak is the country’s deadliest on record, claiming more than 1,500 lives, according to the UN.More th…
Youth campaign group is calling on Keir Starmer’s party to commit to ‘decade of green new deal action’UK politics live – latest news updatesYouth climate activists are calling on Labour to be bolder or risk losing the support of a generation of young v…
Garry Mogg’s wife, Emma, called 999 after he reported chest pains but paramedics took 1 hour 43 minutes to arrive and he died ‘in agony’ at home in BathMore than 500 deaths in England last year after long ambulance waitThe evening before he died, Garry…
Exclusive: figure is more than double the comparable fatalities in 2021, in what a union calls a ‘hidden scandal’ of delaysMore than 500 seriously ill patients died last year before they could get treatment in hospital after the ambulance they called f…