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Home Office launches nationwide campaign for EU Settlement Scheme

The Home Office has launched a new nationwide marketing campaign to encourage EU citizens to apply early for the EU Settlement Scheme...

Monday, 25 March 2019 11:19

Major EV sustainability issue solved – Finnish innovation boosts battery recycling rate to over 80%

Electrification will rapidly increase the need for batteries. A new solution by Nordic clean energy company Fortum makes over 80% of the electric vehicle (EV) battery recyclable...

Monday, 25 March 2019 11:17

School Funding: new analysis shows £5.4bn cut from school budgets in England since 2015

The School Cuts coalition analysis of the latest Government school funding figures shows a shortfall in funding of £5.4 billion over the past three years with 91% of schools in England affected...

Monday, 25 March 2019 11:10

AI and Public Standards – Committee announces review

The Committee on Standards in Public Life has today announced a review into artificial intelligence and its impact on standards across the public sector...

Monday, 25 March 2019 09:54

Mitie in industrial relations mess and should be barred from Interserve contracts, says Unite

Unite, the UK and Ireland’s largest union, is warning that outsourcing giant Mitie should be barred from acquiring contracts from Interserve due to its woeful treatment of its workforce and its very poor industrial relations record...

Monday, 25 March 2019 09:46

Frank Field MP proposes reform programme to end rampant injustice in the gig economy

Frank Field MP today proposes a reform programme, relating to employment law and its enforcement, with the objective of ending the rampant injustice that afflicts all too many workers in the gig economy...

Monday, 25 March 2019 09:25

Financial Services optimism plunges at the fastest pace since the financial crisis - CBI/PwC

Sentiment and volumes are deteriorating sharply in the financial services sector, with various indicators at their lowest since the Financial Crisis of 2008, according to the latest CBI/PwC Financial Services Survey...

Monday, 25 March 2019 00:01

Broadbad - Largest providers still failing to connect with customers: Which? Survey

The latest Which? broadband satisfaction survey reveals that customers with the UK’s largest providers are the most likely to be getting a bad deal...

Monday, 25 March 2019 00:01

Universities told to end grade inflation

Universities must end the steep-rise of ‘unjustifiable’ first class degrees to maintain the UK university sector’s world class reputation, Education Secretary Damian Hinds has said today...

Sunday, 24 March 2019 20:53

Labour pledges to end the scandal of outsourcing services involving contact with people 'at risk'

After a string of outsourcing disasters across whole swathes of Britain’s public services, Labour today outlines new guidelines for central and local government managing contracts...

Sunday, 24 March 2019 20:44