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• 5.5% pay rise for NHS social workers in England

  30-07-2024 23:41
  
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  NHS-employed social workers in England are to receive a 5.5% pay rise in 2024-25, after the government accepted recommendations from the sector’s independent pay review body.
  The decision means that practitioners in the service are currently on course to receive a better uplift than council-employed social workers in England and Wales.
  The latter have been offered increases of £
  
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• Labour ditches planned increase to adult social care training funding

  30-07-2024 23:09
  
  Note: There is a poll embedded within this post, please visit the site to participate in this post's poll.The new Labour government has scrapped a planned increase in funding for adult social care training.
  It has culled the adult social care training and development fund announced by its Conservative predecessor earlier this year, care minister Stephen Kinnock revealed in a parliamentary statement today.
  The fund would have provided £53.9m to put up to 37,000 care staff through the new le
  
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• Greens say Labour should focus more on building council homes and that new housing plan is flawed – as it happened

  30-07-2024 18:30
  Rayner says housing target system will raise number of homes planned to 370,000 and confirmed targets will be mandatoryBalls, who, of course, is a former Labour cabinet minister, and a former shadow chancellor, questions whether Reeves is right to suggest that Jeremy Hunt is wholly to blame for the black hole. He says that other cabinet ministers and departments drew up the spending plans that she says were unfunded.Reeves repeats the point she has been making all morning about how the public we
  
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• Promotional material: Share Your Skills: branding guidelines and logos

  30-07-2024 17:37 via gov.uk
  
  These guidelines will help you understand the FE Teacher Recruitment brand and how to use it and provide logos to download.
  
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• Greens say Labour should focus more on building council homes and that new housing plan is flawed – UK politics live

  30-07-2024 17:11
  Rayner says housing target system will raise number of homes planned to 370,000 and confirmed targets will be mandatoryBalls, who, of course, is a former Labour cabinet minister, and a former shadow chancellor, questions whether Reeves is right to suggest that Jeremy Hunt is wholly to blame for the black hole. He says that other cabinet ministers and departments drew up the spending plans that she says were unfunded.Reeves repeats the point she has been making all morning about how the public we
  
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• Angela Rayner announces increase in new homes target to 370,000 a year – UK politics live

  30-07-2024 15:44
  
  Deputy PM accuses Kemi Badenoch of not understanding that housing was part of the reason the Tories lost the electionBalls, who, of course, is a former Labour cabinet minister, and a former shadow chancellor, questions whether Reeves is right to suggest that Jeremy Hunt is wholly to blame for the black hole. He says that other cabinet ministers and departments drew up the spending plans that she says were unfunded.Reeves repeats the point she has been making all morning about how the public were
  
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• I'm under attack and fighting back: the scandal trapping carers - video

  30-07-2024 14:50
  
  Debbie cares full-time for her elderly mother, works part-time as a cleaner, and claims carer's allowance of £81.90 a week. But she was one of hundreds of thousands of carers to receive a demand from the Department for Work and Pensions to pay back large sums of money for inadvertently going slightly over the earnings limit. Now Debbie and carers like her are starting to fight back and demand change to the systemKey workers quit jobs to avoid cash penalties for breaching carer’s allo
  
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• Angela Rayner announces plan to ‘get Britain building’ – UK politics live

  30-07-2024 14:10
  Deputy PM speaking in Commons on new government’s measures to reform planning policyBalls, who, of course, is a former Labour cabinet minister, and a former shadow chancellor, questions whether Reeves is right to suggest that Jeremy Hunt is wholly to blame for the black hole. He says that other cabinet ministers and departments drew up the spending plans that she says were unfunded.Reeves repeats the point she has been making all morning about how the public were misled. (See 8.06am.) Cont
  
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• Hunt rejects ‘nonsense’ claims about Tory overspending after Reeves accuses him of lying to MPs – UK politics live

  30-07-2024 12:36
  The shadow chancellor denies Reeves’ claim that he left a £22bn black hole in the public financesBalls, who, of course, is a former Labour cabinet minister, and a former shadow chancellor, questions whether Reeves is right to suggest that Jeremy Hunt is wholly to blame for the black hole. He says that other cabinet ministers and departments drew up the spending plans that she says were unfunded.Reeves repeats the point she has been making all morning about how the public were misled.
  
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