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The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has successfully supported a GP member with a series of investigations that followed a patient death. The GP was eventually exonerated, but not before responding to a complaint, claim, NHS England investigation and GMC investigation over a five-year period. The MDU is encouraging healthcare professionals to get support from colleagues… Read more »
Humanists UK is celebrating the ten year anniversary of the first same-sex marriages in England and Wales. Whereas the Marriage (Same-Sex Couples) Act received Royal Assent on 17 July 2013, it took some time to implement this change, so the Act only came into force the following year. The first same-sex marriages took place just after midnight… Read more »
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The government has allocated an additional £12.5 million to projects helping deter vulnerable people from extremism. The money will be distributed among police-led multi-agency projects, prisons, young people who have already had brushes with the law and grassroots projects in areas where radicalisation has already occurred. Home secretary Jacqui Smith says the government is keen… Read more »
Community punishment can be more effective than short prison sentences, a Ministry of Justice document will argue today. The report, ‘Community Sentencing – Reducing Re-offending, Changing Lives’, could be the first step towards an overhaul of the government’s sentencing policy. The renewed vigour with which the government is approaching the subject will be interpreted as… Read more »
