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POLICY AND POLITICS
Streeting announces care worker pay boost
By Dan Peters | 30 September 2025
Health secretary Wes Streeting has announced plans to boost pay for care workers from 2028, backe...
FINANCE
Sheffield reaches £36m equal pay settlement
By Martin Ford | 23 September 2025
Sheffield City Council is to spend £36m to settle equal pay claims lodged by trade unions Unison,...
PAY
Levelling the paying field
By Martin Ford | 17 September 2025
With a host of newly-minted unitaries set to spring up around England in the coming months and ye...
GOVERNANCE
Glasgow redundancy payouts 'deeply concerning'
By Martin Ford | 04 September 2025
Redundancy payouts totalling £1m made to senior officers at Glasgow have been described as ‘deepl...
UNIONS
The lost art of union relations
By Pam Parkes | 13 August 2025
Working with unions has changed. For councils to thrive through the coming changes, they will nee...
PAY
Jumping the pay hurdle
By Graham Farrant | 30 July 2025
BCP Council has completed its transformation by delivering a long-awaited equal pay deal. Graham ...
SOCIAL CARE
Calls for higher pay for social care as UK worker numbers continue to fall
By Lee Peart | 29 July 2025
The Government has faced calls for higher pay and better conditions for social care workers as th...
PAY
Employers and unions agree pay deal
By Paul Marinko | 23 July 2025
Local government employers and the Unison and GMB trade unions have agreed a pay deal for the sec...
PAY
Employers double down on pay offer
By David Blackman | 16 July 2025
Council employers have unanimously reaffirmed their April offer of a 3.2% pay increase as ‘full a...
PAY
Hitting the strike button
By David Blackman | 16 July 2025
The three main local government unions have all rejected the employers’ pay offer. How strong is ...
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