Nuffield Trust: New government must urgently tackle illegal underpayment of wages in social care
The new government must immediately address the problem of low pay in adult social care by tackling illegal underpayment of wages...
Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01
Reactions to Committee for Climate Change report
Responding to the Climate Change Committee’s (CCC) latest assessment that only a third of the emissions reductions required to achieve the country’s 2030 interim Net Zero target are currently covered by credible plans...
Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01
New report by HEPI and the GW4 Alliance (Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter Universities) calls on Government to fix the gap in childcare support for postgraduate students
The Higher Education Policy Institute (HEPI) and GW4 (an alliance of Bath, Bristol, Cardiff and Exeter universities) have jointly published a report entitled Who cares? How postgraduate parents fall through the gap for government childcare grants, and how to fix it...
Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01
Turning point for social care as the sector launches a Workforce Strategy
The launch of a new Workforce Strategy for adult social care in England today is being hailed as a turning point for care – as new data shows the sector still has a vacancy rate around three times higher than the wider economy...
Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01
UK off track for Net Zero, say country’s climate advisors
The Climate Change Committee’s assessment is that only a third of the emissions reductions required to achieve the country’s 2030 target are currently covered by credible plans...
Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01
ASCL comment on NFER report on worsening teacher shortages
Responding to analysis from the National Foundation for Educational Research (NFER), which states that increasingly uncompetitive pay...
Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01
NFER: Shifting career motivations are not to blame for worsening teacher shortages
NFER has published a new analysis feature which explores the under-studied question of how shifting career motivations might be contributing to the teacher supply challenge...
Thursday, 18 July 2024 00:01
‘Security at the heart of UK’s reset with Europe’: PM to tell world leaders as he pledges closer cooperation to dismantle European smuggling rings and bring order to British borders
Border Security will be at the heart of the Government’s reset with Europe, the Prime Minister will tell world leaders at a major European summit tomorrow...
Wednesday, 17 July 2024 22:30
The UK calls for an immediate ceasefire in Gaza: UK statement at the UN Security Council
Statement by UK Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Barbara Woodward at the UN Security Council meeting on the Middle East...
Wednesday, 17 July 2024 19:01
Significant step forward for the UK’s National Holocaust Memorial
The Government has re-introduced the Holocaust Memorial Bill into Parliament in a move that cements its support for delivering the UK’s National Holocaust Memorial...
Wednesday, 17 July 2024 18:39