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• Children’s libraries of all colours

  27-11-2022 21:09 via publiclibrariesnews.com
  EditorialThere’s been some negative trends in the last decade in oh so many ways but one of the things I’ve most appreciated is the increase in the presence of characters of colour in children’s books. Someone pointed out a few years ago that covers of books used to contain all white children, then animals and then only children of colour when they were essential to the plot. Nowadays it is common to see non-white childrenon book covers, no matter the story. Long may this, and
  
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• Ministers must give proper public sector wage rises or services will be beyond saving

  27-11-2022 15:54
  Responding to the transport secretary Mark Harper’s comments today (Sunday) that public sector pay rises are unaffordable, UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea said:
  “Public service workers just can’t go on taking what amount to pay cuts year after year. They and their families are at rock bottom.
  “Many are leaving or have already left to find better paid work in other sectors to help them pay their soaring bills.
  “Ministers must understand that unless the
  
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