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NICE updates guideline on alcohol education in schools
12/02/2019
New draft recommendations will support the Department for Education’s (DfE) plan to make alcohol education a compulsory component of personal, social and health education (PSHE) in all state-funded schools in England from September 2020.
The guideline has been developed by NICE and Public Health England.
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Tackling inequalities faced by Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities
12/04/2019
A parliamentary report criticises the failure by national and local policy makers to tackle long standing inequalities facing Gypsy, Roma and Traveller communities. It finds that Gypsy, Roma and Traveller people have the worst outcomes of any ethnic group across a huge range of areas, including...
Action plan for social care
12/04/2019
The Department of Health and Social Care has published information on the action plan for the Quality Matters initiative, now in its second year, which aims to improve adult social care. More....
