Connie Dimsdale

1 week ago | inews.co.uk | Connie Dimsdale

Elite British private schools are using their charitable status to avoid paying tax on the millions of pounds extra income they receive from overseas campuses, The i Paper can reveal. Dulwich College, Harrow School and Wellington College are among the famous names transferring millions in annual profits as Gift Aid donations to their UK schools. The arrangement means they do have to pay corporation tax, now levied at 25 per cent, on the money.

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Connie Dimsdale

Labour MP Allison Gardner has revealed that she got into politics to “give a voice” to women suffering from chronic urinary tract infections (UTI). The MP for Stoke-on-Trent South, who was newly elected in 2024, gave a powerful speech during a landmark Parliamentary debate on chronic UTI on Wednesday.

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Connie Dimsdale

For years, countless women have been suffering from daily agonising bladder pain. Patients’ lives have been ruined by a condition they thought was nameless, doctors have misunderstood their symptoms, and scientists have been struggling to understand the hidden health crisis. This all changed with Professor James Malone-Lee, a pioneering doctor behind the diagnosis and treatment of chronic urinary tract infections (UTI).

2 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Connie Dimsdale

Labour’s expansion of free childcare will actually make the situation worse for many parents by forcing some nurseries to close and pushing up prices in others, providers are warning. They say nurseries have already introduced price hikes of up to 28 per cent this year, due to higher national insurance costs and minimum wage rises. But now they predict another round of fee rises of 10 per cent and above due to September’s forthcoming free hours expansion.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Connie Dimsdale

A quarter of a million pupils with special educational needs and disabilities (SEND) in mainstream schools could lose their legal guarantees of extra support under a Government shake-up. A key Department for Education (DfE) advisor is reported to have suggested that the department is considering restricting education, health and care plans (EHCPs) to children in special schools.