Posts Tagged With: Society
100 companies pledge to open up work-experience opportunities
Supermarkets, banks, law firms and energy providers sign up to Nick Clegg’s social mobility strategyOne hundred companies have signed up to Nick Clegg’s social mobility strategy, pledging their firms will open up opportunities for work experience to tr… Continue reading
IVF clinics should be allowed to transfer two embryos, says study
Current thinking prefers single embryo transfer to avoid risk of twins, but new study concludes this is not always bestFertility clinics should be allowed to transfer two embryos rather than just one to a woman during IVF treatment if she and her partn… Continue reading
Breast implant scandal: Comestic surgery companies face court action
Andrew Lansley says he will pursue private clinics who refuse to remove impants ‘aggressively through the courts’Andrew Lansley, the health secretary, intends to pursue through the courts the cosmetic industry companies that are refusing free operation… Continue reading
Lords inflict triple welfare bill defeat on government
Campaigners win House of Lords votes on Employment and Support AllowanceThe government’s plans to reform welfare were badly hit on Wednesday when it suffered three defeats in the Lords on proposed benefits cuts.Peers rejected plans to means test emplo… Continue reading
Haiti earthquake: two years on, and just half of promised aid has been delivered
UN figures show that only $2.38bn of $4.5bn pledged has been sent to nation where 2010 natural disaster killed 300,000 peopleTwo years after Haiti was devastated by a magnitude 7 earthquake, international aid donors have delivered only about half of th… Continue reading
Raise limit on infant class sizes in primary schools, government told
Calls come after report shows Sefton council paid £274,000 hiring extra teachers to keep classes below legal threshold of 30The government has come under renewed pressure to raise the limit on infant class sizes after a councillor revealed that his lo… Continue reading
Bringing along Baby: The Iron Lady doesn’t get the infant vote
Baroness Thatcher’s tale prompted an oddly persistent squalling from the benches. Her fellow mothers were far more intriguedIf I’m one of Thatcher’s children, born as I was in 1980, what’s Kitty? Her grandchild?Kitty’s contemporaries, more grandchildre… Continue reading
Welfare reform protest: ‘They are picking on those easiest to vilify’ – video
As the House of Lords debates amendments to the welfare reform bill, protesters from a range of welfare activist groups such as Single Mothers’ Self Defence, Mad Pride and Right to Work gathered outside to lobby membersJohn Domokos
Financier starts work as new head of Royal Armouries
Former head of global investment for J P Morgan will steer the UK’s oldest museum through troubled, spending-cut timesLeeds’ self-promotion as the north’s financial services centre, with the occasional reluctant nod to Manchester, has been given a hand… Continue reading
Migration caps aren’t about protecting British workers | Zoe Williams
Reduce net migration if you must, but don’t expect it to improve the lot of the lowest skilled and lowest paidThe first thing to do in any discussion about the impact of migration on employment is to disregard MigrationWatch. It brought out a… Continue reading »