Speaking after the TUC meeting with Prime Minister David Cameron Monday 20th December , TUC General Secretary Brendan Barber said: ‘The UK is currently in the grips of a bleak midwinter. Today we warned the Prime Minister that next year promises to be even bleaker for millions of families and their communities as the spending [...]

Just Transition and Human Rights principles ‘Promoting a just transition of the workforce, the creation of decent work and quality jobs in accordance with nationally defined development priorities and strategies.’ ‘[Governments] should, in all climate change-related actions, fully respect human rights’. Cheering in the Cancun conference hall in the small hours of Saturday 11 December [...]

NAYCEO has a long and proud record of representing the specific interests of managers in young people’s services, locally and nationally, and this important role will continue and expand over the coming period. This growing activity will be necessary because young people’s services are facing fresh challenges, including significant cuts to local authority service funding [...]

‘Substance Misuse Among Young People: The Data for 2009-10’ looks at under 18s in treatment in England. Key findings are: · Numbers of under-18s accessing services in 2009-10 was 23,528 – down by 525 on the previous year. · Under-18s coming in for primary use of heroin and crack has more than halved over five [...]

In common with the rest of local government, the pay negotiations for local authority Soulbury1 employees for 2010 remain unresolved. The Local Government Employers have refused to offer any pay increase at all for 2010 throughout local government. The Employers say that, in view of local authorities’ financial circumstances, they will not move from this [...]