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here’s the situation across the UK and Ireland

here’s the situation across the UK and Ireland

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In the UK and Ireland, children who have significant special educational needs and disabilities can receive their education outside mainstream school. This often takes place in “special schools” or “special classes”. In the UK, as well as the Republic of Ireland, legislation sets out that children have the right to attend mainstream education. This right cannot be refused based on the complexity of the child’s needs. However, many children are educated in specialist schools, and the devolved governments of the UK, and Ireland, have taken differing approaches to this provision. But there is a problem. Across the UK and Ireland, there are far fewer places available in specialist schools and classes for the number of children identified with needs significant enough to warrant a place. England In 2010, then-prime minister David Cameron set out the aim to “end the bias” towards including children with special educational needs and disabilities in mainstream schools. His government felt there had been an overemphasis on inclusion in mainstream schools. As a consequence, England has seen an expansion of specialist …

Zelenskyy meets Pope Francis at Vatican to discuss humanitarian situation in Ukraine

Zelenskyy meets Pope Francis at Vatican to discuss humanitarian situation in Ukraine

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VATICAN CITY (RNS) — Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy met with Pope Francis and his advisers at the Vatican on Friday (Oct. 11), where he said they discussed the hostage situation in Ukraine and the means to promote peace. The Vatican was the third stop of Zelenskyy’s 48-hour, four-city tour of Europe, after London and Paris, where he hopes to secure financial and political support for his “victory plan.” He met with Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni on Thursday, and after the meeting with the pope, he left for Berlin on the same day. The Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022 has led to almost 1 million deaths, though reports vary according to the source. Many Ukrainians have been taken hostage by Russian forces, and Ukrainian journalist Viktoria Roshchyna was reported to have died in a Moscow prison on Sept. 19. “The issue of our people returning home from captivity was the main issue during the meeting with Pope Francis. We count on the assistance of the Holy See in the return home of Ukrainians …

Today’s Jenna Bush Hager details devastating situation in personal life

Today’s Jenna Bush Hager details devastating situation in personal life

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Jenna Bush Hager is incredibly real and often shares details of her personal life on Today. And on Wednesday’s episode of Today with Hoda & Jenna, the NBC star told co-star Hoda Kotb about a devastating turn of events at home, impacting her oldest daughter Mila, 11. The daughter of George W. Bush revealed that Mila’s cat, Hollywood Hager, had gone missing over the summer, and that it had “hurt her heart”. Jenna Bush Hager explains sad situation at home Despite going to great lengths to find Holly, the family cat is still missing, and Jenna admitted that she couldn’t help blame herself.  In the footage above, Jenna went on to reveal some happier news, that Mila was planning on adopting a kitten and that they were welcoming a “new member of the household,” today. Jenna Bush Hager’s cat Holly with their other cat Mango The doting mom told Hoda that she hoped that the new kitten would encourage Holly to come back home. After the footage was shared on Instagram, viewers took to the …

Ukraine Warns of Dire Situation Against Russia as It Awaits U.S. Aid

Ukraine Warns of Dire Situation Against Russia as It Awaits U.S. Aid

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Russian troops have captured or entered around a half-dozen villages on Ukraine’s eastern front over the past week, highlighting the deteriorating situation in the region for outgunned and outnumbered Ukrainian forces as they wait for long-needed American military aid. “The situation at the front has worsened,” Gen. Oleksandr Syrsky, Ukraine’s top commander, said in a statement on Sunday in which he announced that his troops had retreated from two villages west of Avdiivka, a Ukrainian stronghold in the east that Russia seized earlier this year, and another village further south. Military experts say Moscow’s recent advances reflect its desire to exploit a window of opportunity to press ahead with attacks before the first batch of a new American military aid package arrives in Ukraine to help relieve its troops. Congress recently approved $60 billion in military aid for Ukraine, and President Biden signed it last week, vowing to expedite the shipment of arms. “In an attempt to seize the strategic initiative and break through the front line, the enemy has focused its main efforts on …

Tell us: what are your views on the current political situation in Scotland? | Scotland

Tell us: what are your views on the current political situation in Scotland? | Scotland

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We’d like to hear people’s views on the current political fallout in Scotland and the resignation of first minister Humza Yousaf. Yousaf had scrapped the Bute House agreement, which was brokered by his predecessor Nicola Sturgeon in 2021 and cemented a progressive, pro-independence majority at Holyrood, after increasing internal criticism within the SNP of Green influence on policy direction. Responding to Yousaf’s announcement, the Scottish Labour leader, Anas Sarwar, called for an election. “The SNP are a divided party which is out of ideas and incapable of rising to the challenges Scotland faces,” he said. What do you make of Scottish politics currently, and what would you like to see happening next? Share your experience Tell us how you feel about current politics in Scotland, and what your hope for the country’s political future are. Your responses, which can be anonymous, are secure as the form is encrypted and only the Guardian has access to your contributions. We will only use the data you provide us for the purpose of the feature and we will …

As bird flu outbreaks worsen, experts say the situation threatens to spiral out of control

As bird flu outbreaks worsen, experts say the situation threatens to spiral out of control

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For weeks, the dairy industry has been gripped by a highly contagious virus that is threatening to only get worse. Federal regulators announced this week that samples of pasteurized milk tested positive for H5N1, the strain of bird flu that has jumped from poultry to cows with one recent infection in an American. At the moment, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) reports that the country’s milk supply is safe thanks to the pasteurization process, which works by heating milk to kill bacteria and viruses, and “the diversion or destruction of milk from sick cows.” However, infectious disease experts warn this these positive tests are a sign that the outbreak is much bigger than previously thought, and indicate that the government doesn’t have a good grasp on the situation. And the problem only seems to be worsening. According to the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS), H5N1 has been identified in 33 herds in eight states. On Thursday, a senior FDA official said 1 in 5 milk samples have tested positive for H5N1. …

Now’s the time to cut your losses”: Former Trump prosecutor outlines potential “win-win situation

Now’s the time to cut your losses”: Former Trump prosecutor outlines potential “win-win situation

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This is the second week of former president Donald Trump’s historic criminal trial in Manhattan for allegedly engaging in a hush-money scheme to conceal his adulterous relationship with adult film actress Stormy Daniels (legal scholar Norm Eisen has more accurately described this first trial as being about the crime of election interference). Far faster than most experts expected, 12 jurors and 6 alternates were selected last week. Trump’s criminal trials are almost guaranteed to be a spectacle given his bombastic temperament, egomania and megalomania, mastery of stagecraft and propaganda, and what is in total a disagreeable personality that borders on the sociopathic if not psychopathic.  During opening statements on Monday, the prosecution succinctly summarized the case against Donald Trump. “The defendant, Donald Trump, orchestrated a criminal scheme to corrupt the 2016 presidential election,” prosecutor Matthew Colangelo said. “Then he covered up that criminal conspiracy by lying in his New York business records over and over and over again.” “It was election fraud, pure and simple,” Colangelo told the jury. The first witness for the prosecution, David Pecker, …

Dominic West Makes Rare Comments About Aftermath of Lily James PDA Photos: ‘Absurd Situation’

Dominic West Makes Rare Comments About Aftermath of Lily James PDA Photos: ‘Absurd Situation’

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Nearly four years after photos of Dominic West and Lily James‘ PDA emerged while he was married to someone else, the Affair star has made rare comments about that “absurd situation.” In an interview with The Sunday Times, the Wire alum, who recently portrayed Prince Charles on The Crown, addressed the similarities he experienced playing a character whose personal life was exposed in the press.  “I’d had a very acute understanding of what it’s like to feel the horror of your name or your photograph coming up in the newspapers. There is that dreadful freezing moment when something is being revealed about you,” he told the newspaper. “I think anyone can understand how that feels. But I’d been through it a couple of years previously and it must have informed how I approached it. That gut feeling of horror isn’t something you get inured to.” What West seemed to be referring to was in October 2020, when pictures were published of him in Rome with his Pursuit of Love co-star, James, and without a wedding ring on. In one photo, he was purported …

Pentagon leaders press Congress for Ukraine funding, saying battlefield situation is dire

Pentagon leaders press Congress for Ukraine funding, saying battlefield situation is dire

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WASHINGTON (AP) — Ukraine and Israel both desperately need the military weapons that are being held up by Congress’ failure to pass a funding package for the two countries at war, Pentagon leaders told House appropriators Wednesday, calling the situation in Ukraine dire. “Whether it’s munitions, whether it’s vehicles, whether it’s platforms,” Ukraine is being outmatched by the Russians, Gen. CQ Brown, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee. “I’ll just tell you that Ukraine right now is facing some dire battlefield conditions.” Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin, seated alongside Brown, told lawmakers that time matters. “We’re already seeing things on the battlefield begin to shift a bit in Russia’s favor. We are seeing them make incremental gains. We’re seeing the Ukrainians be challenged in terms of holding the line,” he said. Their grim assessments came as House Republicans wrangle over the $95 billion foreign aid bill that the Senate passed in February. That legislation provides funding for Ukraine, Israel and other allies, as well as humanitarian aid for civilians …