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Comment on: News round-up 17/6: Public sector pay freeze will save £1.5bn
So civil servants not on the top of the grade will receive a pay cut but what does this incentivise them to do? Is this a unilateral removal of contracted terms and conditions without negotiation or even consultation?
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Comment on: News round-up 14/6: Car firm success reveals skills shortage
Dont knock the pub quiz - it is central to Gove's vision for the national curriculum.
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Comment on: News round-up 13/6: Business lobby challenges health ringfence
Does the children's heart surgery rethink have implication for other proposals which involve centralising specialist procedures in fewer locations - e.g. vascular services in Hertfordshire?
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Comment on: News round-up 12/6: Ministerial local growth group unveiled
Cuts to social care - government in severe denial. Funding pressures on NHS are being exacerbated questioning the integrity of ring fencing.
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Comment on: News round-up 11/6: Rural broadband a 'train wreck'
The £150M Amey contract is for services performed mainly by local people who can now look forward to a long term attrition of their pay and terms and conditions in order that the contractor can enrich their shareholders - the majority of whom are not found in these boroughs.
