Thursday, 8 May 2014

A ban on strict parenting? - politics.co.uk

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"The minute you bring those interactions into the legal domain, invariably you create more problems than you solve"

Emotional abuse

Cinderella law: Emotional abuse 'risks criminalising millions'

Emotional abuse is not currently a criminal offence - unlike physical and sexual abuse

'Cinderella law' set to criminalise emotional abuse "creates more problems than it solves", Frank Furedi warns

In other news...

This Is Your Brain Online: Is trolling Putin's secret weapon?

Carl Miller: 'Citizens are looking more like journalists every day'

As trolling becomes a tool of international relations, the need for digital citizenship becomes clear

Miliband told to put sustainability in schools

Ed Miliband likes to "chew the cud" on sustainability, MPs say

Labour should commit to including sustainable development in the national curriculum, a senior backbencher says

Bucking the trend: Poll show huge opposition to privately-run public services

G4S: Huge levels of public distrust to outsourced public services

Public overwhelmingly opposed to private firms running public services, new poll reveals

Peers desperate to get Britain fracking

Much of Britain contains significant shale gas resources

Lords give ministers the green light to strip back environmental regulation of fracking

Farage celebrates 'Ukip's Clause IV moment' as he surrounds himself with black candidates

Farage says presence of ethnic minority candidates his 'Clause IV moment'

Nigel Farage stands on stage with an assortment of black and ethnic minority Ukip candidates, as he attempts to dispel perceptions his party is racist

Prisoner book ban

Prison governors: Grayling's regime is driving us to 'tipping point'

Grayling is flanked by books as he talks to inmates with deputy prime minister Nick Clegg

Chris Grayling's "Spartan" prison regime is leading to a "tipping point" of instability, the president of the Prison Governors' Association warns

NEA comment on 'Green Deal Home Improvement Fund'

Today the UK Government has released further information on the ‘Green Deal Home Improvement Fund’.

Clarity over public benefit and protections needed for data sharing

Tax professionals are calling on the Government to provide assurances that it is not going to start selling taxpayers’ data.

We need to consider our transport networks as “a whole”, say engineers

The Transport Committee today says that the Government must plan for new road and rail investment by looking at future passenger and freight demand by route or region, not by looking at each in isolation from each other.

A year to go to the Election, charity launches Election Planner to get disengaged groups voting

Exactly one year from the General Election, charity launches new Election Planner to get disengaged groups voting.

HMRC debt proposals contain insufficient curbs on possible abuses

HMRC debt proposals contain insufficient curbs on possible abuses, say LITRG.

BSA Chief Executive calls on sector to mould its future

Speaking at the BSA annual conference in Manchester today, Robin Fieth, Chief Executive of the BSA, called on the building society sector, regulators and policy-makers to think carefully about the future shape of the financial services sector.

HMRC relaxes mandatory filing of VAT returns online

HM Revenue and Customs (HMRC) have agreed to relax the strict rule requiring VAT returns to be filed online.

World Health Organisation annual hand hygiene campaign day

MRSA Action UK believe there should be an International Convention for the Protection of Antibiotics.

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