23 May 2022
The amount of money that working parents are having to pay for childcare has returned to the headlines as the cost of living crisis deepens, and the Government has agreed that it is an area it wants to address.
23 May 2022
According to figures from a leading social mobility charity, 68% of primary school senior leaders report receiving insufficient catch-up funding this year, with 51% saying that they have reduced the number of teaching assistants.
23 May 2022
Children and families minister Will Quince has confirmed that the Government is going to consult on childcare ratios before the summer.
23 May 2022
Demand for new buses and coaches grew by 45.2% in the first quarter (Q1) of 2022, but still remains well below (-44.4%) the pre-pandemic five year average.
23 May 2022
Mainly spread by wild animals in parts of west or central Africa, and first identified in the Democratic Republic of Congo in 1970, monkeypox has suddenly appeared in 14 countries with, for the first time, the virus being found in people with no clear connection to the usual countries of origin.
20 May 2022
The Department for Transport (DfT) have extended the authorisation for the remote delivery of Dangerous Goods Driver Training.
20 May 2022
While the most common response made in the past six months by employers with hard-to-fill vacancies has been to increase pay (44%), only 27% of organisations plan to raise wages in response to recruitment difficulties in the future.
20 May 2022
The 18th Adaptation to Technical Progress (ATP) to the Regulation on the classification, labelling and packaging of substances and mixtures (CLP) has been adopted under the new procedures for adoption of delegated acts.
20 May 2022
The commencement of the Fire Safety Act 2021 has brought a strong message from the Fire Sector Federation (FSF) as it warned that fire risk assessors, together with the building owners and safety managers who employ them, face additional challenges in satisfying new legal requirements to meet fire safety competency standards.
20 May 2022
The UK REACH Regulations have finally been consolidated into one piece of legal text.