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• The Guardian view on public sector pay: inadequate and insulting | Editorial

  22-07-2021 20:04
  
  The government had a chance to do things differently. The chance is being squandered by ministers who do not know what to doParliament is breaking for the summer recess with the Conservatives in a shambles over some of the most fundamental issues facing the country. Government tactics for getting into the recess without allowing MPs a proper chance to examine big issues like Covid controls, social care reform, public sector pay and public spending have been reminiscent of football time-wasting p
  
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• We can fund social care without raising national insurance | Letters

  22-07-2021 18:43
  
  Readers respond to reports that the government is mulling an increase in NI payments, which will disproportionately hit the young and low-paidThe government’s consideration of a rise in national insurance presents an ideal opportunity to question the unfairness of the current 12% and 2% NI rate levels (Ministers mull national insurance rise to fund social care, 19 July). Employee NI contributions (NICs) are no different to income tax. We know this because HMRC’s annual tax summaries,
  
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• Excess coffee: A bitter brew for brain health

  22-07-2021 18:06
  It's a favourite first-order for the day, but while a quick coffee may perk us up, new research shows that too much could be dragging us down, especially when it comes to brain health.
  
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• Senior appointments announced at Valorum Care Group

  22-07-2021 11:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Two senior appointments have been announced by Valorum Care Group with a new Chief Finance Officer and the creation of a Chief Operating Officer post.Marc Harding joins the group as CFO from the CareTech Group where he was the Group Finance Director, while Paula Holdsworth takes up the role of interim COO.Marc spent more than a decade at CareTech, where he held various positions at the group which provides care and support  for adults for people with physical and learning disabilities,
  
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• Bournemouth’s care home’s Vogue Model resident turns 102 in style!

  22-07-2021 08:00 via feedproxy.google.com
  Model May Banham has always lived a life of glamour and excitement, and that hasn’t changed at Agincare’s Blenheim Care Home in Bournemouth as she rolled back the years with a special photoshoot and celebrations to mark her 102nd birthday.May hails from London, where she began her career as a model in the 1930s.Her success took her globetrotting, all around the world walking runway shows (including the first one ever televised before the war), working as a house model with Lutye
  
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