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CRIMINAL RECORD blunders are destroying careers, teachers warned today.
The National Education Union’s ATL section conference heard that one woman had been told she could no longer work as a childminder because her nephew had been convicted of rape.
Another committed suicide after losing her job for failing to disclose that she had been fined for a public disorder offence — “snorting like a pig” at an undercover police officer — in her university days, Josie Whiteley, president of the ATL leadership section, told the conference.
A packed fringe meeting at the National Education Union conference heard from Iranian teachers, campaigners and journalists
As peers prepare to debate reform of the 1861 Offences Against the Person Act, Labour MP Tonia Antoniazzi leads a bid to end the criminalisation of women who end pregnancies at home. LYNNE WALSH reports
DYLAN MURPHY reports that far from helping people back into work, the sanctions regime is inflicting unnecessary trauma on working-class families