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Childcare applications for parents of 9-month-olds to open 12 May

Places boosted even further with new measures to support childminders, and funding rates confirmed for all childcare providers ahead of hist

Use of telegraph poles: letter from DSIT Minister to telecom operators

The Minister for Data and Digital Infrastructure wrote to telecom operators asking them to consider alternatives to the use of telegraph pol

Joint statement published by the United Kingdom’s Prime Minister and United States’ President’s top-level advisory councils on science and technology

The Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology (CST) met with the President’s Council of Advisors on Science and Technology (PCAST)

Victims given greater access to justice through legal aid reform

Innocent people who have suffered miscarriages of justice, personal harm or injury are among those who will benefit from upcoming changes to

Yorkshire GREEN development consent decision announced

The Yorkshire GREEN application has today been granted development consent by the Secretary of State for Energy Security and Net Zero.

Community Diagnostic Centres deliver more than 7 million checks

Patients benefit from tests and scans at 155 centres now open in England, with AI scanners on the way to further bolster diagnostic offer

Lord Cameron of Lochiel makes maiden speech in House of Lords

UK Government Minister for Scotland addresses safeguarding the union to connect communities in all parts of the UK and help all to realise t

UN Human Rights Council 55: Panel discussion on child rights mainstreaming

Panel discussion for the annual full-day meeting on the rights of the child: Child rights mainstreaming in the United Nations. UK statement.

Spring Finance Bill published to cut tax for working families

Spring Finance Bill published to cut tax for working families and boost creative sector

The UK calls on Iran to cease its unlawful support for the Houthis

Statement by Ambassador James Kariuki at the UN Security Council meeting on Yemen.