Paul Seddon

2 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Paul Seddon |Nick Triggle

Doctors and teachers in England have been handed a 4% pay rise after the government accepted salary recommendations from pay review bodies. Education unions have broadly welcomed the decision, while warning of cuts to school budgets without extra funding to cover costs. But health unions have reacted angrily after a smaller rise of 3.6% was announced for other NHS staff, including nurses and midwives.

3 weeks ago | yahoo.com | Paul Seddon |Sima Kotecha

More than a thousand inmates will be released early to free up spaces in prisons in England and Wales, the justice secretary has announced, as the government grapples with an overcrowding crisis. Under the move, offenders serving one to four years who are recalled to prison for breaching their licences, will be released after 28 days. Shabana Mahmood said a £4.7bn investment would fund more prisons, but said it would not be possible to "build our way out of this crisis".

3 weeks ago | flipboard.com | Paul Seddon |Sima Kotecha

Prisons will run out of space in just 5 MONTHS as government unveils raft of new measures to tackle overcrowding crisisAMY Rees, interim permanent secretary to the Ministry of Justice, revealed the UK will run out of prison spaces entirely by November of this year. A …

1 month ago | yahoo.com | Paul Seddon |Henry Zeffman

The government has insisted it will not reverse cuts to winter fuel payments, despite growing calls within Labour ranks for a rethink on the policy. Calls within the party for the cuts to be abandoned have grown louder in the wake of losses at last week's local elections in England. But Sir Keir Starmer's spokesman told reporters there "will not be a change to the government's policy".

Jan 21, 2025 | msn.com | Jack Fenwick |Paul Seddon

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