MoD: Military courage recognised in Operational Honours List – (UK relationship with Ukraine strengthened by Defence agreement ~ Military completes flood defence inspections ~ New £10m Covenant fund awarded to 176 Armed Forces projects ~ MoD: Major investment boost for next generation Royal Navy ships ~
MOD and Royal Mail sign new agreement to keep personnel connected ~ Developing mental health services for veterans in England)
ScotGov: £190,000 to support Scotland’s veterans
DWP: All Welsh jobcentres switch over to Universal Credit – (LGA: 2,500 academies yet to sign up to healthy school meal standards)
BIS: Workers advised to make sure they are getting new National Living Wage as government survey reveals almost a third of staff never check their payslips
Defra: Farming Recovery Fund extended to Greater Manchester – (Defra: First saplings planted in push for 1m trees for schools)
DCMS: Marcus Jones - Don’t let fraudsters cheat us out of vital services
HMRC: Gift Aid donation rules - clarification
Government Chemist represented at 2016 Codex meeting in Budapest
LGA Responds to Education White Paper – (LGA responds to Government's Culture White Paper ~ LGA responds to government's modern crime prevention strategy)
DfE: University technical college applications: deadline set
Ofsted: High needs learners are not always receiving the support they need to reach their potential – (Ofsted:
Inspection of Portsmouth school improvement support ~ Ofsted: Online application to provide childcare unavailable 9 to 15 May
HEFCE: Revised approach to quality assessment in higher education – (HEFCE: Financial health of sector ~ HEFCE: New national outreach programme for students from disadvantaged backgrounds)
ScotGov: 8,000 sales milestone – (ScotGov: Excellence in Higher Education ~ Support for students & pupils ~ ScotGov: £300k for global citizenship ~ ScotGov: Headteacher qualification to be funded ~ ScotGov: Final chance to submit 2015/16 SAAS applications)
WAG: Minister celebrates 3,000th job & training milestone
Ofcom: Simpler, speedier switching for mobile customers
Ofgem: National Grid agrees to pay out £3m after failing to meet gas network repair targets
Electoral Commission: Hollyoaks stars launch new campaign
TfL: Successful trials prove effectiveness of speed limiting technology on buses
Land Registry: New Land Charges Service will go live in April
Arts Council England: Family friendly theatre show Three Keepers returns for a national tour
STFC: Learn, create and compete with the Hartree Hack – (STFC: The world's biggest telescope gets the world's best instrumentation)
Unicef: Over 250,000 children affected by Colombia conflict since 2013, despite peace talks – (Unicef: 87m children under 7 have known nothing but conflict ~ Unicef: New EU-Turkey agreement on refugee and migrants could leave children at risk)
RoSPA celebrates Fujitsu contract – (RoSPA: It’s time to address the problem of time – experiment needed on daylight savings)
CCC: Compatibility of UK onshore petroleum with meeting carbon budgets – update
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