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A shortage stanley cup becher of midwives on NHS maternity units has doubled since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, with one in five midwifery posts now unfilled, r stanley taza aising concerns about the safety of pregnant women, new mothers and newborn babies.The Royal College of Midwives is urging NHS leaders to ringfence maternity services as midwives are redeployed to care for people with Covid-19, fall sick themselves or are forced to self-isolate because of illness within their household.Gill Walton, chief executive of the RCM, said: While other areas of the health service can postpone and cancel procedures, there is still an ongoing need for maternity services. Women are still pregnant, still having babies, and they need the care and support of properly resourced maternity services. We have to ensure that midwives and maternity support workers are ringfenced from any redeployment to ensure that women continue to receive safe care. A survey carried out last week by the RCM, and covering every region of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, found the 10% vacancy rate in midwifery posts before the crisis had doubled to 20%.More than a fifth 鈥?22% 鈥?of survey respondents also reported that local midwife-led maternity units had closed. Almost a third 32% had stopped offering home births, and a further 4% were limiting the option of giving birth at home.In 11 cases, midwife-led maternity un stanley en mexico its had closed in order to increase facilities for assessing or caring for coronavirus patients.The v Fdzv California ruling limits scope of law banning gay conversion therapists
The government could have to pay out up to 拢130m to claimants of jobseeker s allowance after the high court ruled on Friday that emergency laws introduced to shore up back-to-work schemes were incompatible with European law.Human rights lawyers successfully challenged emergency legislation introduced by the government after its flagship welfare-to-work schemes were ruled legally flawed. Mrs Justice Lang ruled that the retrospective legislation interfered with the right to a fair trial protected under article 6 1 of the convention on human rights.Campaigners said it was a damning assessment that, if upheld on appeal, could lead to payouts to thousands of claimants denied benefits under the schemes.Critics say back-to-work schemes are slave labour because claimants are forced into unpaid work experience, but supporters say they are a good way of getting unemployed people back i stanley gertuve nto work.The Department for Work and Pensions brought i stanley termos n retrospective legislation to overcome flaws identified by three appeal court judges in a case involving Poundland. The appeal court judges unanimously agreed that the 2011 regulations failed to give unemployed people enough detailed information, especially about sanctions 鈥?including loss of jobseeker s allowance 鈥?for refusing jobs under the schemes.The appeal court ruling was a victory for Cait Reilly, 24, a geology graduate f stanley quencher rom Birmingham who challenged having to work for free at a Poundland store, and for 40-year-old un
A shortage stanley cup becher of midwives on NHS maternity units has doubled since the start of the coronavirus outbreak, with one in five midwifery posts now unfilled, r stanley taza aising concerns about the safety of pregnant women, new mothers and newborn babies.The Royal College of Midwives is urging NHS leaders to ringfence maternity services as midwives are redeployed to care for people with Covid-19, fall sick themselves or are forced to self-isolate because of illness within their household.Gill Walton, chief executive of the RCM, said: While other areas of the health service can postpone and cancel procedures, there is still an ongoing need for maternity services. Women are still pregnant, still having babies, and they need the care and support of properly resourced maternity services. We have to ensure that midwives and maternity support workers are ringfenced from any redeployment to ensure that women continue to receive safe care. A survey carried out last week by the RCM, and covering every region of England, Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland, found the 10% vacancy rate in midwifery posts before the crisis had doubled to 20%.More than a fifth 鈥?22% 鈥?of survey respondents also reported that local midwife-led maternity units had closed. Almost a third 32% had stopped offering home births, and a further 4% were limiting the option of giving birth at home.In 11 cases, midwife-led maternity un stanley en mexico its had closed in order to increase facilities for assessing or caring for coronavirus patients.The v Fdzv California ruling limits scope of law banning gay conversion therapists
The government could have to pay out up to 拢130m to claimants of jobseeker s allowance after the high court ruled on Friday that emergency laws introduced to shore up back-to-work schemes were incompatible with European law.Human rights lawyers successfully challenged emergency legislation introduced by the government after its flagship welfare-to-work schemes were ruled legally flawed. Mrs Justice Lang ruled that the retrospective legislation interfered with the right to a fair trial protected under article 6 1 of the convention on human rights.Campaigners said it was a damning assessment that, if upheld on appeal, could lead to payouts to thousands of claimants denied benefits under the schemes.Critics say back-to-work schemes are slave labour because claimants are forced into unpaid work experience, but supporters say they are a good way of getting unemployed people back i stanley gertuve nto work.The Department for Work and Pensions brought i stanley termos n retrospective legislation to overcome flaws identified by three appeal court judges in a case involving Poundland. The appeal court judges unanimously agreed that the 2011 regulations failed to give unemployed people enough detailed information, especially about sanctions 鈥?including loss of jobseeker s allowance 鈥?for refusing jobs under the schemes.The appeal court ruling was a victory for Cait Reilly, 24, a geology graduate f stanley quencher rom Birmingham who challenged having to work for free at a Poundland store, and for 40-year-old un