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Claire was recommended to be part of the group through her involvement with the Association of School and College Leaders (ASCL) FE Leaders Group. She also sits on the Association of Colleges (AoC) SEND Reference Group…
They see the colleague who calls them back, explains what happens next or helps resolve a problem. Behind that conversation, there may be several teams working together to make sure the answer is right. That’s something…
Launched earlier this year amid record numbers of young people not in education, employment or training (NEET), the strategy aims to give more than two million young people a life-changing DofE experience and widen…
We've seen this in the gains in life expectancy, the sharp decrease in child mortality and in the near elimination of many vaccine-preventable diseases. But since the turn of the century this progress has stalled, and in…
The Royal College of Pharmacy has dropped Teva UK, the British arm of the global medicines producer Teva Pharmaceuticals, as a sponsor of and exhibitor at its annual conference next month. Its decision comes after that…
It’s also reminded me of something that feels surprisingly relevant to innovation – you can spend hours planning the perfect camping trip, but once you’re out in the Dales the plan quickly gives way to reality. The…
He later apologised for the comment, but at the time it seemed the then health secretary had endorsed a populist view that ordinary stresses and disappointments had become too often medicalised, resulting in a surge of…
The stark warning was made in a review led by Prof Peter Fonagy into the sharp rise in demand over recent decades for help with mental health and neurodevelopmental conditions. It found there was an increasing risk of…
The independent survey of school leaders who had undergone the revised inspections since last year found that 88% said it had "negatively affected" the mental wellbeing of school staff, including 29% who said it affected…
Experts said a rise in diagnoses over the past 25 years meant cases now appear to be outstripping the expected number in the population for some younger age groups. The review called for tougher regulation of private…