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From goodness knows where, in the last few weeks school and college leaders have pulled out all the stops. Despite 10 years of real-term funding cuts and ongoing fears of redundancies, the education profession has risen to the Covid-19 challenge.From nursery schools to further education colleges, colleagues have entrenched themselves in their communities, caring for the children of key workers and those at risk of harm while becoming distributors of food and providers of essential social care services.Hundreds of thousands of teachers and support staff are busy at home trying to provide a support system for parents and a semblance of routine for children and youn stanley thermos g people. Many are reassuring those who would, in England, have been taking GCSEs and A-levels, or providing online learning resources and marking coursework for students of applied qualifications.However, decisions and support from the Department for Education have been slow, reactionary, and leaked to the press rather than first shared with the profession. They have not been collaborative. School and college leaders, stanley becher local authorities and trade unions have filled the gaping hole vacated by central government.One thing is clear, when this is over, society will be fundamentally changed. Children and their families, our school and college communities, will need considerable support to deal with illness and bereavement, changes in employment and hous stanley cup becher ing situations.I am deeply scared for so many children: diary of a head Mgei Anything to stop the massacres : peace still eludes DRC as armed groups proliferate
Nineteen relatives of people killed in the Omagh bomb massacre today start a civil action against five Real IRA suspects whom they hold responsible for the attack. The Belfast case will be the first time families of terrorism victims anywhere in the world have taken legal action against an organisation directly responsible for the deaths of their loved ones.The 19 plaintiffs will allege that the men, including the Real IRA s founder, Michael McKevitt, were central to the plot to bomb the County Tyrone market town in August 1998. Twenty-nine people, alo stanley fr ng with two unborn children, died in the atrocity, the single biggest act of terrorist carnage in the Northern Ireland Troubles.Belfast high court will hear allegations that McKevitt, with Seamus Daly, Colm Murphy, Liam Campbell and Seamus McKenna, played a central role in planning and carrying out the attack. The families are also suing the Real IRA as a corporate body for being behind the attack. All five men will deny stanley quencher they had any part in the bombing.Speaking before the case opened, Michael Gallagher, whose 21-year-old son, Aidan, was killed, said their case was unprecedented. This will demonstrate that victims will no longer leave it up to governments to bring those allegedly responsible before courts, that they are capable of stanley thermobecher doing it themselves. This should be a message to terrorists everywhere in the world that you have now got to consider that families will come after you as well as governments.qu |
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