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Parliamentary inquiry finds NSW mental health care is ‘reactive and crisis-driven’ because it is chronically and severely underfundedFollow our Australia news live blog for latest updatesGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastNew South Wales police have been urged to improve mandatory mental health training for officers and “explore” becoming the second responders to these types of emergencies after a string of fatalities involving vulnerable people.A parliamentary inquiry into mental health care across NSW made the recommendations after finding police involvement in mental health crises could cause further distress and had been harmful in a

Vote counting about to start in biggest elections in the world, with one billion voters eligible to cast their ballotsExit polls show Narendra Modi expected to win historic third termVote counting is now underway at counting stations in India’s 543 constituencies. Paper ballots, cast by those who cannot vote electronically, will be counted first. Then electronic votes will be counted. These are cast on electronic voting machines, which have been used since 2,000.Results are announced for each constituency as soon as counting is completed. India follows the first-past-the-post system, under which a candidate with the highest number of votes wins,

Real-terms funding per pupil at 2010 levels, teacher pay at 2001 levels, and building investment 25% below mid-2000sSpending on each schoolchild’s education in England has suffered an unprecedented 14-year-freeze since the Conservatives came to power, according to Britain’s leading economics thinktank.Funding per pupil is now at 2010 levels in real terms, the Institute for Fiscal Studies said in its latest analysis of school spending, while teacher pay was at about the same real-terms level as in 2001. Continue reading... Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/education/article/2024/jun/04/english-pupil-funding-at-same-level-as-when-tories-took-power-study-finds Author : Sally Weale Education correspondent Publish date : 2024-06-04 01:01:09 Copyright for syndicated content belongs to

NDIS minister says Julianne Stewart does a ‘very good job’ but he did not negotiate deal. Follow today’s news headlines liveGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastWe reported yesterday that more than one-third of employment providers, who are tasked with helping unemployed Australians find work, are failing to meet the government’s own performance measures.Last night, the Department of Employment Workplace Relations was asked how many low ratings a provider has to receive before they lose contracts. The department said it has developed a ‘licence review process’, but has not implemented it yet. Continue reading...