Press release: Newcastle man sentenced for illegal waste operation
Investigation by the Environment Agency results in man being handed a suspended prison sentence. read more
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This report should serve as a warning that plans to re-introduce selection at 11 will only make the attainment gap wider – Rayner
Angela Rayner MP, Shadow Education Secretary, commenting on the Sutton Trust report into the attainment gap between poor pupils and their better-off classmates, said:
“This report should serve as a stark warning to the Government that their plans to re-introduce selection at 11 will only make this attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers even wider.
“Their plans to bring back grammar schools are reckless and without evidence. Introducing wholesale selection back into the schools system will only make life more difficult for the most disadvantaged kids.”
read moreInjured finless porpoise found, in stable condition
After three days of searching, an injured finless porpoise was finally discovered Thursday afternoon in the Poyang Lake, China’s largest freshwater lake. Finless porpoise protection volunteers in Jiangxi Province discovered a large fishhook on the bac… read more
Research and analysis: Employment status review (2015)
This review looks at the framework for determining employment status and provides a snapshot of the UK labour market in 2015. read more
Theresa May has lost control of the NHS this winter – Ashworth
“Theresa May has lost control of the NHS this winter”: Labour reacts to latest performance data
NHS England has today published full year 2016 data for a number of key NHS indicators, including waiting lists, ambulance response and delayed transfers, which show the health service stretched to the limits.
The BBC has also published leaked figures showing January’s A&E performance to be the worst since records started.
Labour said the figures showed Theresa May was failing patients and renewed calls for the Government to bring forward extra support for health and social care in the March budget.
Jon Ashworth, Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, said:
“Theresa May has lost control of the NHS this winter and patients are paying the price as target after target is missed and standards of care deteriorate. Thousands more people are waiting for treatment, people are stuck in hospitals even when they’re well enough to go home, and key standards on cancer care and ambulance response times are being missed.
“These are some of the worst figures we have seen. Experts are saying that standards are being pushed back fifteen years or more. Behind each of these statistics is a patient suffering and in unacceptable discomfort. It’s making Theresa May’s utter disregard for the dire state of the NHS all the more disgraceful.
“The Government has failed the NHS right across the board. Urgent action is required and Labour is calling for a sustainable funding package for health and social care to be brought forward in the March Budget, so that the NHS and its patients never have to go through a winter like this again.”
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