Defence Minister visits a hub for Queen Elizabeth Class Carrier Programme – (MoD: Social hub takes shape at Worthy Down ~ Defence Secretary praises 'good partners' Croatia during visit ~ MoD: Thousands of students will benefit from new cadet units backed by £50m Government plan ~ MoD builds links with SMEs in North East ~ MoD: War Pension Scheme payments increases from April 2017 ~ MoD: Britain and Italy stand together to tackle security threats)
10DS: PM congratulates the Queen on her Sapphire Jubilee
Cabinet Office: Chris Skidmore meets with students to encourage democratic participation in the West Midlands
CLG: Housing white paper: statement ~ LGA: Councils respond to Housing White Paper
DCMS: Matt Hancock's speech at the launch of the New Schools Network arts report.
Defra: Update on biosecurity measures to protect against Avian Flu
DfE: County Durham student awarded Lord Glenamara memorial prize
Environment Agency: Work begins on major £18m Newhaven flood defence project
LGA: Councils must be able to force academies to take in ‘hard to place' children – (LGA responds to Family and Childcare Trust's survey ~ LGA responds to new LOWCVP/ Greener Journeys report on buses)
LGA responds to new Local Government Ombudsman report on parking fines ~ National Ombudsmen: Ombudsman calls for more fairness over parking fines
LGA responds to Government's statement on Dubs amendment resettlement figures ~ Unicef: End to Dubs scheme leaves refugee and migrant children facing uncertainty
ScotGov: Scotland is top of Erasmus class
HMRC wins ‘alternative money’ lap dance case
Children’s Commissioner: Safer Internet Day 2017 and Growing Up Digital
EHRC: Brexit negotiations: no rowing back on the protection of rights – (EHCR: New guidance to help universities prevent extremism)
STFC: Update on cyber attack – (STFC invests £1.3m in next generation of data-science experts)
Ofgem sets prepayment price cap to protect over 4m households least able to benefit from competition
Ofwat: Customer service improved, thanks to Ofwat intervention
UK Space Agency: UK company delivers first Euclid flight hardware
Natural England: Bats & churches to benefit thanks to National Lottery
ACE: Bluecoat kicks off 300th anniversary programme
TUC: Brexit white paper leaves questions unanswered on protection of jobs & workers’ rights – (TUC: Insecure work up by a quarter since 2011 ~ TUC: Expert panel provides a welcome opportunity to build on success of auto-enrolment)
JRF: Growth alone will not help just managing families squeezed by rising inflation
Unicef: World must make faster progress to end female genital mutilation by 2030 – (Unicef: Thousands of children out of school after classrooms hit by heavy shelling in eastern Ukraine)
WWF-UK comments on the CIWEM 'A Place for SuDS?' report – (WWF comments on the publication of the National Policy Statement for a third runway at Heathrow Airport ~ WWF calls for urgent end to UK domestic Ivory Trade ~ WWF - Over half of the European Union's natural areas are only "protected on paper") |