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17/11/2024
Top 1 Per Cent Has Almost £800 Billion More Wealth Than Official Statistics Show - From Resolution Foundation In 2021
t has been glaringly obvious for many years that the unequal distribution of wealth in the UK has gotten out of control. The Resolution Foundation release on 3 January 2021 set out the case for tackling the problem.
17/11/2024
Military Families Deployed Overseas To Save Thousands In Childcare Costs As Part Of Drive To Boost Military Morale
Defence Secretary expands wraparound childcare support to service families deployed overseas. They will now receive 20 hours a week of funded before and after school childcare will save families around £3,400-a-year.17/11/2024
Exciting Opportunities In The Nuclear Industry
Sellafield Ltd attended a recent New Statesman Regional Development event to showcase its education outreach and early careers programmes. ‘The role of skills to boost productivity and support regional economies' was one of the main panel discussions at a recent New Statesman Regional Development event that included Sellafield Ltd's Head of Education, Skills & Social Mobility Michelle Lambon-Wilks.17/11/2024
£1 Billion Government Funding Boost For Bus Services Across England
Funding will keep fares down, protect local routes and deliver more reliable services. new funding will support, improve and protect crucial bus services across the country.17/11/2024
Call To Scrap UK Voter ID Requirements
Requirements for voter identification brought in by the previous UK Government should be scrapped, the Minister for Parliamentary Business for the Scottish Government has said. Jamie Hepburn has highlighted evidence from the Electoral Commission that the new requirements kept potential voters away from the ballot box at the recent UK Parliamentary election, and fears misunderstanding around the need for ID could have a similar impact in Scotland.17/11/2024
Government Actuary Department Analysis Supports Government's Pension Reforms
GAD's analysis has supported the government's work around pension reforms, which were announced by the Chancellor during the Mansion House Speech. We supported the government as part of wide range of pension reforms announced by the Chancellor.16/11/2024
John Macdonald Of Exeter Son Of Flora Macdonald Died 1759 - Funds Still Benefitting Education
On Thursday the 21 November 2024, the Education Committee will be presented with an Education Trust Fund report that asks Members to approve the formation of an Education Trust Fund Sub Committee. There are significant funds held by The Highland Council in trust for the educational benefit within different communities.
16/11/2024
Building A Difference - What Happened To Former 'Carbuncle' Towns? - Starting With John O'groats
An article in Holyrood media yesterday 15 November 2024 highlights previously named carbuncle towns such as John O'Groats and the transformation taking place. We are striving to make John O'Groats world-class," says Andrew Mowat, "and we're getting there." or years, the Caithness village traded on its location on the northernmost edge of the UK mainland.
16/11/2024
Creating Future Business Leaders - Funding To Expand Entrepreneurship In Scotland
More than £1.9 million has been awarded to create the entrepreneurs of the future and to increase access to business careers. Pupils will have the opportunity to learn about business from primary one to the end of high school under a new initiative to boost entrepreneurship in Scotland.16/11/2024
Mortgage Prices Gone Up As Interest Rates Have Gone Down - Why?
The Bank of England may have cut interest rates by 0.25% but a number of big mortgage lenders have increased their prices this week. Barclays and Natwest became the latest high street banks to announce they intend to increase their fixed mortgage rates, following hot on the heels of Santander, HSBC, Nationwide and TSB.16/11/2024
Inheritance Tax Rises And The Budget - Who's Affected?
The IFS discusses Inheritance tax changes in the UK budget, In the recent budget, Chancellor Rachel Reeves announced a £40 billion tax increase, pushing tax as a share of national income to an all time UK high. Just 6% of that came from an increase in inheritance tax, and just a small fraction of that will come from farmers.
16/11/2024
Why Are You Divorced From Your Savings? - Richard Murphy
Most people have no clue how their pension and other savings are managed, or who by, and what the consequences for the economy, the planet or themselves of that management of their savings might be. Why is it that £6 trillion of pension fund money in the UK is totally unaccountable and what would happen if we brought it back under saver control? ABOUT RICHARD MURPHY Richard Murphy is Professor of Accounting Practice at Sheffield University Management School.
16/11/2024
The UK Housing Rental Crisis Is Getting Worse
UK Rents have been increasing and forecast to keep rising. Yet, it wasn't always like this.
16/11/2024
Improving Funeral Standards
Inspections and other measures will promote the highest standards of care and increase public confidence in the funeral sector under draft regulations laid in the Scottish Parliament. The Burial and Cremation (Inspection) (Scotland) Regulations 2025, if approved, will ensure minimum standards are maintained to safeguard the dignity of the deceased and promote compassionate and professional care for the bereaved.16/11/2024
Trump's Tariffs Are Bad News For Everyone - Richard Murphy
Trump's plan to impose massive tariffs on imports into the USA are bad news for US consumers, and most specially the poorest people in that country. But they are also really bad news for the UK in a great many ways, and for the rest of the world as well, because we just don’t know how to manage the chaos they will unleash.
16/11/2024
Crofting Law Reform
Proposals to simplify crofting regulation, encourage more use of common grazings and a range of other changes have received high levels of support in a recent consultation. The Scottish Government has published an independent analysis of the responses to the consultation on proposals for Crofting Law Reform, together with those responses where consent to publish was given.15/11/2024
Grant Funding For Young Businesses Opens For Applications
Young businesses and social enterprises in the Highlands and Islands looking to increase productivity, innovation and employment can apply for funding from HIE. The fourth round of the Highlands and Islands Enterprise (HIE) Young Business Capital Grant (YBCG) is now open to businesses that have been trading for less than five years with up to 250 full-time equivalent employees.
15/11/2024
Highland Council Ecology Strategy And Action Plan Gets Green Light
At the Economy and Infrastructure Committee on Thursday 14 November 2024 councillors adopted an ambitious action plan to tackle biodiversity loss and support a nature-positive Highland. The Council's Ecology Strategy and Action Plan Strategy sets out and defines a series of key actions and activities that will assist the Council to deliver positive action to tackle biodiversity loss and start to address the ecological emergency for the benefit of its environment, economy, and communities.15/11/2024
Low-to-middle Income Families Across Britain Have Got Older And Sicker Over The Past Three Decades, But They Are Still More Likely To Be In Work
50 is the new 20 for the 13 million families that make up an older, modern-day low-to-middle income Britain, who are also more likely to suffer from poor health or a disability compared to three decades ago. But despite these headwinds, which have come to the fore since the pandemic, lower-income families are far more likely to be in work today than they were in the mid-1990s, according to new research published on 13 November 2024 by the Resolution Foundation.15/11/2024
How Cuts To Youth Clubs Affected Teen Crime And Education
Youth clubs are free after-school programmes for local teenagers. These spaces offer a safe environment to spend time with friends outside of school hours, access the support of youth workers, and participate in workshops and activities, often including music or sports.
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