1 October 2018
In June the government asked NHS England to make a 10-year plan, and guaranteed real funding increases over the next 5 years. NHS workers must remain vigilant to take advantage of the opportunity to repair damage done to the service.
27 September 2018
The 1,500 enthusiastic Brexiteers who came to Leave Means Leave’s Bolton rally show that the people are ready to fight for Brexit.
27 September 2018
Head teachers are to march on Downing Street on Friday 28 September in an unprecedented bid to get improved and sufficient school funding.
13 September 2018
EU rules force around a third of all fruit and vegetables produced on British farms are thrown away purely because they don’t look good enough, scientists say.
12 September 2018
England's schools are facing a severe shortage of teachers, says a new report from the Education Policy Institute.
7 September 2018
University managements are circulating a pension proposal to university workers for consultation based on fundamentally flawed assumptions about the economy and interest rates.
24 August 2018
Network Rail has confirmed that it will use the freedoms presented by next year’s Brexit to cut needless costs.
New Zealand is acting against foreign buy-ups of property. The country’s previous government was happy to allow rich foreigners to snap up land and property.
English and Welsh local authorities have cut £182 million from supported bus services over the last decade, with more than 3,000 routes affected, according to new research from the group Campaign for Better Transport.
The quest to find a home for a statue of former prime minister Margaret Thatcher continues.
A further shortage of nurses in the NHS is looming, fuelled by an unfulfilled need to plan for and train staff. That’s due to high fees and the loss of the student bursary in England, not Brexit.
The Resolution Foundation’s annual audit of living standards, published at the end of July, warns that child poverty in Britain has been rising twice as fast since 2011 (when “austerity” began).
The notion that local government could go bankrupt is a novel one, but one we’re going to have to get used to.
A school which cost £18.6 million to rebuild six years ago by Carillion needs to spend £5 million on repairs – including fixing some 300 holes in its roof.
21 August 2018
Birmingham Prison is back under government control, but the crisis in our prisons appears general and affects ones still in public control.
11 August 2018
The ailing bloc faces an overall £18 billion budget shortfall, most of it due to Brexit. But it still plans to spend more.
8 August 2018
A school which cost £18.6 million to rebuild six years ago needs to spend £5 million on repairs – including fixing some 300 holes in its roof.
12 July 2018
So now we know. The Prime Minister wants from the EU an agreement based on the kind of agreement the EU has with…Morocco.
3 July 2018
Despite a recent annual congress with no motion on a second Brexit referendum, academics’ union leader Sally Hunt has started a consultation on the question.
2 July 2018
In a vote of confidence in Brexit, construction equipment maker JCB is to invest more than £50 million in a new factory in Staffordshire.
The EU has banned the European Aviation Safety Agency from talking with the UK Civil Aviation Authority about fallback arrangements in the event of no deal on Brexit, jeopardising travel across Europe.
Pickets were out in force in East Dunbartonshire at the end of June after Unison members went on strike over cuts to terms and conditions including reductions to holidays.
An ageing workforce and an industry dependent on EU labour add up to an imminent crisis for construction.
The West Midlands is undergoing a rebirth, with more jobs created than in any other region, a trade surplus with China, and businesses like HSBC UK relocating to the region.
Unite is balloting workers at three of Total’s North Sea oil rigs for industrial action following the company’s refusal to reduce the number of unpaid working days.
The hygiene levels of a growing number of primary schoolchildren are so bad that teachers are having to provide basic items of personal hygiene to large numbers of them, says a charity.
The demand for housing continues to rise, with continuing uncontrolled migration into Britain playing a significant part.
The Charity Gingerbread has warned that single parents, particularly those who are working, are losing out under Universal Credit.
24 June 2018
A conference in Paris that brought together workers from across Europe has called for the repeal of all EU treaties and directives.
Members of Unison, the largest union in the NHS, have voted overwhelmingly to accept the latest pay agreement.
