9 h. ago ‘Something has gone very wrong’: how the carers scandal was exposed

A Guardian investigation revealed how hundreds of thousands of people were plunged into debt – and some criminalised – for looking after their loved onesOne February afternoon in 2016, Sir Robert Devereux, at the time the most powerful official in the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), was stopped by a junior colleague as he walked through the car park of a civil service office in Preston, Lancashire. Was he aware, the worker asked, about the problems with carer’s allowance?Devereux, on a flying visit to the DWP outpost, asked for details and promised to look into it. A few days later, Devereux’s office received a long and detailed note, complete with 80 anonymised case studies, setting out how years of shortcomings in the administration of the carer’s allowance benefit had wasted millions of pounds of taxpayers’ money and inflicted untold hardship and misery on thousands of unpaid carers. Continue reading...

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44 h. ago Teachers and doctors to get 4% pay rises but strike threat looms

The Government has confirmed NHS staff and teachers in England will get above-inflation pay hikes but the British Medical Association is threatening strike action, while the National Education Union warned it could register a dispute

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53 h. ago Labour faces mounting strike threat from doctors, nurses and teachers despite bumper pay hikes of up to 5% set to be unveiled TODAY

The Government is expected to accept recommendations from public sector pay review bodies, set to be unveiled today, that are much higher than budgeted for.

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66 h. ago Nurse Sandie Peggie demands answers from nursing union over single

Sandie Peggie is suing NHS Fife after sharing a female changing room with a transgender doctor.

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2 d. ago Labour faces Whitehall strike threat as civil service union demands £18 per hour minimum wage, pay rises of at least 10%, and a shorter working week

Members of the PCS union, which represents workers across Whitehall, are also calling for a minimum London weighting of £5,000 per year.

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3 d. ago Nurse in trans doctor case demands clarity from union on single

The Royal College of Nursing reportedly wrote to an English health board claiming it was breaking the law with its changing room policy.

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3 d. ago Edinburgh University staff back strike action over £140m cuts and threat to jobs

In a ballot of University and College Union Scotland members at the university, 84% of those who voted backed strike action.

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3 d. ago Police union chief demands power "to save lives" after Kayden Moy beach death

David Kennedy, General Secretary of the Scottish Police Federation, made the call in the wake of 16-year-old Kayden Moy's death at the weekend.

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3 d. ago Ryanair demands cabin crew staff return pay rises amid Spanish union dispute

Flight attendants in Spain have been told to hand back five months’ worth of salary increases after a row between the airline and a union.

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6 d. ago Eight in ten parents agree on one essential quality they expect their kids' teachers to have

As stern celebrity headteacher Katharine Birbalsingh takes a protest to Whitehall over Labour's Schools Bill - research shows one of her complaints is dramatically out of touch with parents

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8 d. ago King and Prince of Wales share private moment at Order of the Bath ceremony

The lavish ceremony saw Charles and William process through the church with officers, knights and the Dame Grand Cross of the order.

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9 d. ago Taxi driver in France charged with stealing from David Lammy and his wife

Driver allegedly stole luggage and cash from foreign secretary and Nicola Green after ride from Italy to French ski resort A taxi driver has been charged by French police with stealing luggage and cash from the UK’s foreign secretary, David Lammy, and his wife, Nicola Green. The driver took the couple more than 600km (370 miles) from the town of Forli in Italy to the French ski resort of Flaine, Haute-Savoie, last month. The Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office (FCDO) said Lammy and his spouse were victims in the case and that the driver has been charged with theft after driving off with their luggage. It also denied that the Labour MP for Tottenham had refused to pay the driver. Whitehall sources said no sensitive material was in the pair’s holiday luggage. Prosecutors opened an investigation into a “commercial dispute” in Bonneville after the driver filed a complaint. The Bonneville prosecutor, Boris Duffau, told the BBC the taxi driver was being charged with theft. He sai...

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1 week ago Thousands of Civil Service roles moved out of London in latest reform to the state

Thousands of Civil Service roles moved out of London in latest reform to the state  GOV.UK

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1 week ago 'If you want to serve the government you shouldn't have to move away from your community'

Writing exclusively for the Manchester Evening News, Georgia Gould, Parliamentary Secretary at the Cabinet Office, explains why the government is moving more civil service jobs out of London

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1 week ago The new government jobs coming to Manchester with 7,000 at former Central Retail Park site

Thousands of civil service jobs are moving outside of London

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1 week ago Cardiff to benefit from thousands of civil service jobs relocating from London

The UK Government said 13 cities across the UK while receive a collective economic boost of £729m

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1 week ago Thousands of civil servants to be moved out of London as government cuts costs

New regional hubs are set to open across the country

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1 week ago Thousands of civil servants to be moved out of London as 11 Government offices in capital set to close

Some 12,000 civil service jobs will be moved out of London and 11 Government office buildings shut

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1 week ago More than 10,000 civil service jobs to be moved out of London

More than 10,000 civil service jobs to be moved out of London  Financial Times

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1 week ago Hundreds of civil service jobs moving to Scotland as part of UK Government shake

Ministers had previously announced cuts to the civil service - but now more jobs will be relocated to Edinburgh, Glasgow and Aberdeen.

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