Day: February 10, 2025

UK News: Despite government pledge to recruit 6,500 new teachers, headteachers are under renewed pressure to avoid going into deficit

Schools across England say they are being forced to make teachers and teaching assistants redundant to avoid going into deficit, in a serious blow to the new government’s plans to improve education.

Labour swept into government in July with a central promise to tackle the crisis in schools by recruiting 6,500 teachers. But unions have told the Observer that schools have already started making teachers redundant to balance their books, arguing that after more than a decade of funding cuts under the Tories there remain no less painful efficiencies to be made. Continue reading…
http://dlvr.it/THtcH2

Maxwell Mclean says his treatment made ‘an absolute mockery of the freedom to speak up’ in the NHS

Patient safety is at risk without better protection for NHS whistleblowers, according to a former health service chair who claims he was forced from his job after raising concerns about reviews into preventable baby deaths.

Maxwell Mclean, the former chair of the Bradford Teaching Hospitals NHS foundation trust, said his treatment made “an absolute mockery of the freedom to speak up” in the NHS. Continue reading…
http://dlvr.it/THtc5s

‘It takes the little people to stand up,’ says Andrea Tucker, who was told to repay £4,600 after caring for mother for 15 years

An unpaid carer is to challenge in the courts an “unfair and nonsensical” demand by welfare officials to repay £4,600 in carer’s allowance overpayments, five years after being advised by the same department she was following benefit rules correctly.

Andrea Tucker, a part-time charity shop worker who cared full-time for her mother for 15 years, told the Guardian the prospect of going to tribunal had made her ill with stress but she was determined to get justice. Continue reading…
http://dlvr.it/THtc4F