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• Blog: We can’t let the government take away crucial legal safety nets

  26-01-2022 15:47
  
  It’s dangerous when any government thinks it can decide who deserves access to human rights and who doesn’t.The UK’s Human Rights Act (HRA) is a safety net and a crucial source of legal protection for people across all UK nations who have been mistreated or failed by the system.  
  But the government has just launched a consultation on its plan to replace it with a weaker bill of rights.
  The new bill from the Ministry of Justice would distance UK courts from case law of the
  
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• Government must ensure pay in key services is high enough to halt staff exodus, says UNISON

  26-01-2022 01:01
  
  Commenting on analysis from the TUC today (Wednesday) that shows key public services workers face another year of ‘wages gloom’ without government action, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
  “Health, council, care, school and police staff have been at the heart of the pandemic. Those same essential workers are being hit hard as living costs soar.
  “Frontline services, already struggling with a crushing number of vacancies, are losing employe
  
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