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The living wage punch up
More than 30,000 are set to get a pay rise of up to £400 a year following an increase in the 'Living Wage'. The Independent...
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School for two year olds?
Baroness Morgan, chair of Ofsted, has called for children as two years of age to be enrolled at school in order to raise ‘dire’ standards of education, reports...
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Probation privatisation: making the sums add up
We have come rather late to this post on how the Transforming Rehabilitation sums might add up. It was publised back in June on the Buying Quality Performance website.
'Despite the rhetoric about a “rehabilitation revolution”,' writes Richard Johnson, 'this is the outsourcing of probation...
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Serco charges for ‘phantom’ offenders
G4S and Serco are under criminal investigation after claims that they have been overcharging by ‘tens of millions of pounds’.
The Guardian reports that the...
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Work-related deaths misrepresented in official statistics
Professor Steve Tombs of The Open University highlights how official statistics on work-related deaths massively understate the scale of the problem. A recent press release from the Health and Safety Executive (HSE), Tombs notes, claimed that 148 workers were fatally injured in 2012-2013. The...
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Press freedom in jeopardy?
Rules drawn up regarding newspaper content regulation were granted a royal charter last night, despite strong opposition from the newspaper industry and civil liberties campaigners.
Concerns and criticisms include the prospect of free speech being threatened, and the very tradition of...
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‘Back to work’ legally flawed
The Supreme Court has dismissed the Department for Work and Pensions’ appeal against a Court of Appeal ruling that ‘back to work scheme’ that the scheme did not contain sufficiently detailed ‘prescibed descriptions’ of the scheme,...
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Youth employment is ‘public health time bomb’
Sir Michael Marmot of the World Health Organisation has warned that youth unemployment is a ‘public health time bomb waiting to explode’ in Europe, and that child poverty is a policy choice in Britain as so little is done to redistribute wealth, reports...
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Social inequality affecting public health
Sir Michael Marmot, who is known for his work on social health, claims that the rest of Europe takes better care of its families and believes the deteriorating public health in Britain is caused by huge numbers of adults not in education, training or employment.
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MoJ highlights re-conviction rates
In advance of a national probation officers strike the Ministry of Justice has released figures highlighting the well-known fact that thousands of convicted offenders have one or more previous convictions under their belt.
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Video: UK wealth inequality
Inequality Briefing has released an animation which shows that the distribution of wealth in the UK is far less equal than people believe it to be and is at its widest since the Second World War. Watch the video here.
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More female staff needed urgently in immigration detention
Two male guards have been sacked for ‘sexual activity’ with a female detainee. A female guard was also fired for failing to bring the situation to attention after female victim came forward, ...