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Beauty treatments: High fashion or high risk?
29 Jul 2025The Chartered Trading Standards Institute has released important guidance on “at home” beauty treatments, and the risks that are posed in using them. Beauty treatments such as lash lifts and manicures are becoming more and more accessible at home, with kits that appear to be great value for money being sold online. But do you know the risks you are exposing yourself to by using them?
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MHRA proposes sensible new plan for boosting medical devices in UK
25 Jul 2025Was Brexit good for the UK? It depends on your perspective. For UK life sciences businesses, the “B” word still provides strong opinions. Some people have accepted the decision even if they think it was a mistake. Others think that Brexit provided a good opportunity for the sector, but the UK could have done more to benefit from the opportunities or “Brexit freedoms”. The debate rumbles on.
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Clarity on overseas pensions lacking from Legislation Day
25 Jul 2025The policy objective behind the draft legislation and supporting papers in relation to pensions serves to counter two manifest concerns. It aims to remove distortions, amassed over years of changes to pension tax legislation, which have led to pension schemes being increasingly used, and (overtly) marketed, as a tax planning vehicle to transfer wealth rather than for funding retirement. It also aims to remove inconsistencies in the inheritance tax treatment of different types of pensions.
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The Life Sciences Sector Plan has been published - what does it mean for UK pharma?
18 Jul 2025So the Life Sciences Sector Plan has now been published on 16 July by the UK Government - just in time for everyone to enjoy some summer holiday reading. Life sciences is one of the eight chosen specialist sectors that the Government sees as key to fuelling the UK's growth in the next 10 years, as highlighted in the recent Industrial Strategy.
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Gender questioning children guidance: where are we now?
10 Sept 2025The DfE is yet to issue the revised guidance despite promises that this would come in time for the new academic year. Gender questioning children will continue to enjoy the full protection of the Equality Act and here we provide some pointers to the duties of educational settings to these children and what to expect of the new guidance.
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New voluntary standards for non-school Alternative Provision - improving oversight of unregistered provision
10 Sept 2025The DfE expects that all children, regardless of their circumstances or the type of educational settings they attend, should expect to receive the same high standards of education and support.