Badenoch unveils plan to end £100,000 childcare 'cliff edge' ahead of Tory conference

Courts backlog will fall despite scrapping of jury trial plan, minister says. Proposals to limit jury trials were first introduced by former justice secretary David Lammy last year.

Court quashes block on mothers and children in Gaza joining families in UK. Immigration court judge finds Unsafe Journeys Policy was applied unlawfully to two families A decision by the Home Office to block mothers and children in Gaza from joining their families in the UK has been quashed by a court. Families abroad who have had their applications approved to reunite with loved ones in the UK usually have to undergo biometric checks, including fingerprinting and facial images at a Visa Application Centre. But the VAC in Gaza has been closed since October 2023, and it is difficult to.

Can teaching schoolchildren about Britain’s role in the transatlantic slave trade remain optional? | Morgan Ofori. Mounting evidence about how slavery shaped Britain shows that teaching about its history cannot be a matter of choice I often think back to my years as a secondary school history teacher, and to what I was and wasn’t able to teach. History is a foundational subject in England, taught to children from the age of five to 14 to build critical thinking, weigh evidence and help pupils understand the world they’ve inherited. The key stage 3 national curriculum , covering ages 11 to.

Badenoch says Tories want policies ‘for everybody’ as she defends plan to let millionaires get free childcare – UK politics live. Conservative leader defends plan to extend free childcare to high earners, as Tory conference begins in Birmingham today On Friday the Times revealed that Katie Lam , the communities secretary, told a meeting in private earlier this year that the state pension system needs a fundamental overhaul. Speaking in June, when she was a frontbencher but not yet in the shadow cabinet, Lam was asked at a meeting with activists if she thought the pensions triple lock was sustainable..

Jacob Rees-Mogg accuses Tucker Carlson of ‘verging on defending Hitler’. Former Tory minister defends UK decision to enter war in podcast with US rightwinger and Putin sympathiser The former Tory minister Jacob Rees-Mogg has found himself defending Britain’s decision to fight against Adolf Hitler after inviting the US rightwinger and Vladimir Putin sympathiser Tucker Carlson into his home for an interview. During the encounter, Carlson repeatedly suggested the west was to blame for inviting aggression from Russia and said of the prospect that Britain could have lost to Hitler: “Who cares?” Continue reading...

Burnham’s plans for social care and its workers are admirable but changes must come quickly | Heather Stewart. Money is needed now for a system that has left families including mine struggling their way unsupported and forgotten As one of many hundreds of thousands of people in the UK with a parent with Alzheimer’s, the passage in Andy Burnham’s speech about social care moved me to tears. My mother had not even been diagnosed when I watched Theresa May announce her 2017 general election manifesto in a hall in Halifax – with care funding at its heart. Continue reading...