The Government and all opposition parties have made announcements setting out their intentions to promote employee ownership of public services. This briefing looks at the various proposals, current policies and examines the implications for public services, their users and workers. http://www.tuc.org.uk/publicsector/tuc-17897-f0.cfm

A charity  has produced a report calling for coordinated action to stop young people revolving in an out of prison.

Skill is currently running an exciting new programme to raise aspirations of young people when they make choices about leaving school.  Disabled young people with an experience of college and university are trained and supported to visit schools, college and youth groups to tell other disabled young people about what it is like to go [...]

Joseph Rowntree Foundation (JRF) Research.  The JRF has published research on Poorer children’s educational attainment: how important are attitudes and behaviour. The research focuses on a range of factors under the umbrella term ‘aspirations, attitudes and behaviours’, encompassing a wide variety of influences throughout childhood.  The study:·  uses a number of large-scale longitudinal data sources [...]

A study shows that young people spend on average 3 hours per day on the internet. With one in five putting themselves at risk by being willing to share personal details to adult strangers.

The Health and Safety Executive is urging employers, unions and union reps to make better use of its guidance on disability and health and safety. The guide, which is available online, ‘promotes good practice in disability equality at work and health and safety risk assessment.’ HSE says it suggests how to do risk assessments involving [...]

AS of 6 April 2010, a new right to request ‘time to train’ came into force and this time to learn briefing describes the procedure that must be followed in order to submit a valid ‘time to train’ request, as well as the grounds on which requests may be refused and the way in which [...]

The TUC Educational Trust offers two bursaries of £800 each to enable trade union members to visit a European Union country in 2010/11. These bursaries are from a trust established by the late Clive Jenkins, a former General Secretary of ASTMS and member of the TUC General Council. The bursaries will fund a trip to [...]