Scotland now has the most violent classrooms in the United Kingdom, with serious attacks on teachers and school staff tripling in the past ten years. Between March 2014 and March 2024, there were 490 reports of serious injuries to school staff caused by violence, the highest rate in the UK when adjusted for population, according […]
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More than £130 million worth of London property has been seized as part of an international crackdown on a criminal network accused of running brutal scam compounds in Cambodia and Myanmar. Two men Chen Zhi and Qiu Wei Ren were added to the UK sanctions list on Tuesday, alongside several companies connected to them, in
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A disabled woman has spoken out about years of relentless abuse at the hands of her partner, who used technology to control every aspect of her life from her money and medical care to her privacy at home. Sarah*, a wheelchair user in her forties, told The Independent she had “no privacy at all” as
When Rose saw her young daughter asleep against the ladder of her bunk bed, she instinctively pulled out her phone and took a picture.Seconds later, to her horror, she realised the 21 month old was not asleep. Her neck had become entangled in a scarf tied to the bunk bed. She was unconscious. Through tears,
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Teachers across Scotland have warned that schools have become too lenient with disruptive pupils, claiming a lack of consequences is fuelling poor behaviour in classrooms. A major survey by the Scottish Secondary Teachers’ Association (SSTA) found that just 22 per cent of teachers believe their school has a clear disciplinary system in place to deal
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Middle age is often cast as life’s bleakest stretch: creaking joints, stalled careers, demanding children and ageing parents. Yet new research suggests that the late fifties may, in fact, be the prime of human mental performance. A paper in the journal Intelligence has produced a new measure, the cognitive-personality functioning index (CPFI) which combines intelligence,
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The Health Secretary has ordered an urgent review into the vetting of foreign-trained doctors after a Times investigation revealed that medics banned abroad for serious misconduct were able to practise in the NHS. Wes Streeting described the findings as “horrific” and a “serious failure in our medical regulatory systems”, promising that such lapses “will not
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MPs and MSPs could risk creating an inaccessible assisted dying system unless they fully account for the scale of funding, staffing and infrastructure needed to deliver it, the Nuffield Trust has warned. A new report from the health policy think tank, which takes no position for or against legalisation draws on evidence from 15 countries
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Scotland’s classrooms are facing a growing crisis of poor behaviour, with education experts warning that a “culture of entitlement” among pupils is undermining teaching, learning and the authority of schools. A new report from the Commission on School Reform, a body of education leaders set up by the public policy institute Enlighten, calls for urgent
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The Supporting Disabled Older Workers Project has been released to coincide with National Inclusion Week, an annual event that promotes inclusive workplaces. New research from the Centre for Ageing Better reveals that disabled older workers are almost twice as likely to face negative treatment when applying for jobs or promotions compared to their non-disabled peers.
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