3 Progression of nurses within the NHS 2. Midwives –by design –progress much faster up pay bands than nurses within the NHS, despite starting at the same pay point. Two years after being at the lowest point of Band 5 in November 2012, among those …

Dec 18, 2024 · The government has published the provisional Local Government Finance Settlement for 2025–26, setting out funding allocations for English councils next year.This confirms an important shift in grant funding to councils serving more deprived areas first highlighted in a policy statement at the end of November, but we can now understand the implications for specific councils.

Dec 4, 2024 · David Phillips, an Associate Director and head of devolved and local government finance at the IFS, said: “The Scottish Government has trumpeted a Budget providing record levels of funding for the NHS and councils, universal winter payments for pensioners, and starting the process of ending the two-child cap in universal credit in Scotland.

The Pensions Review – led by the Institute for Fiscal Studies in partnership with abrdn Financial Fairness Trust – is a big, 2½-year, project to comprehensively assess the consequences of current pension policy, the economic environment and individual behaviour for the future of living standards in retirement. It will also provide recommendations for …

pupils, test scores fell by 12% s.d. They were also stronger for pupils with lower prior attainment, proxied by their grades at ages 10-11. The closures also led to increases in youth offending rates in terms of both the

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Sep 13, 2022 · Your education has a huge effect on your life chances. As well as being likely to lead to better wages, higher levels of education are linked with better health, wealth and even happiness.It should be a way for children from deprived backgrounds to escape poverty.

Key findings What has happened to living standards since the pandemic? 1. Between 2021–22 and 2022–23, median household income before housing costs (BHC) fell by 0.5%.

Aug 22, 2024 · Note: Horizontal axis shows labour cost (gross earnings + employer NICs) for employment and gross profits (earnings) for self-employment; marginal rates are expressed as a percentage of that labour cost / profit.

Nov 15, 2024 · As well as setting spending plans, next month’s Scottish Budget will also set the rates and bands of Scotland’s devolved taxes for 2025–26.