Quarter of a million MenB jabs for students
246,089 doses of meningococcal B vaccine given between July 20 and August 31, in run-up
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Fossil fuel dependency is now a business resilience risk
Geopolitical tensions are rising but the global energy supply chain remains stubbornly centralised. When staying
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Heathrow expansion ‘blows hole’ in climate goals
Plans to expand Heathrow Airport with a third runway are incompatible with the UK’s legally
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Wildfire smoke and heatwaves undermine air quality gains
A new report from the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) has warned that the increasing frequency
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Illegal number plates are driving police crackdown
Police are to target drivers using illegal number plates to avoid fines, as well as
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TfL freezes £2m in Croydon transport funding over cycle lane closure
Transport for London (TfL) has frozen £2.067m in funding for Croydon after the council removed
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Councils face new duty to support children in temporary accommodation
As part of a new legal duty, schools and GPs in England must now be
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Unite considering ‘all options’ to block sweeping Scottish public sector cuts
The health and social care union is responding to this week’s announcement that could see
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Have your say on Wales’s new public energy company
Consultation launched on proposals for a single national public energy company that will pay back
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PM: ‘There must be a way to save Jodrell Bank’
On his first day in Parliament, new Prime Minister Andy Burnham commits to saving iconic
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Pressure on councils and schools from AI-assisted complaints
Public bodies struggle to meet their legal commitments to reply, due to ‘rising tide’ of
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‘Everybody needs somebody rooting for them’: Emma Williamson on supporting care-experienced children
Emma Williamson, Deputy Leader and Lead Member for Children’s Services at Cumberland Council, talks to us about her journey into the role and why helping others has always been at the heart of her work.
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The final weeks before Isabelle Welsh’s murder raise troubling safeguarding questions
The murder of Isabelle Welsh has prompted national outrage and raised serious questions over safeguarding
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Children’s care costs six times more than Eton – what’s gone wrong?
As the Competition and Markets Authority investigates England’s children’s social care market, David Rankin of
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Hidden impact: PFAS, air pollution and data centres
Everybody is talking about AI’s huge drain on resources. Nobody is looking at chemical pollution
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