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Staff Health & Well-Being: Part 1 - The state we’re in Charlotte Goddard Tuesday, May 4, 2021 In the first part of a new series looking at staff health and well-being, Charlotte Goddard sets out how healthy we are as a society, and sector, and how inequality affects this The many faces of health Illustration: Amanda Hutt Thank you for visiting Nursery World and making use of our archive of more than 35,000 expert features, subject guides, case stud...

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Angela Rayner Shadow First Secretary of Sate and Deputy Leader and Leader of the Labour Party Keir Starmer with Allan Cook MD of Arlington Real Estate during a tour of the Durham Milburngate site Picture: SARAH CALDECOTT DEPUTY Leader of the Labour Party Angela Rayner slammed the Conservatives for only ‘looking after their mates’ when she visited the North-East today. Ms Rayner joined Labour Leader Keir Starmer on a tour of the Milburngate development in Durham City before visiting Har...

The Equality Hub begins recruitment for a new Chair of the Social Mobility Commission (SMC).

Growing size of inheritances ‘curbing social mobility for younger generations’ Zoe Tidman © Provided by The Independent Inheritances are set to grow dramatically compared with other sources of income, impacting social mobility within younger generations in the future, according to an economic think-tank. The Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) said this will mean inheritances will become more and more important and will widen the gap between the rich and the poor. The repor...

By The Jouker Were not going to fool you this April 1, Scotland has had quite enough of that from Westminster over the past year AMID election campaigns launching and the ongoing coronavirus pandemic now is likely not the best time for any news site to be misleading its readers. Thats why weve decided to bring you something different on April Fools Day 2021, with a list of seven claims from Prime Minister Boris Johnson and his Tory Cab...

Over half of the public believes the coronavirus outbreak has driven greater social inequality in the UK over the past few months, according to a study by the government’s independent advisers. The Social Mobility Commission said its annual survey of public attitudes revealed 56% of adults believed social inequality had increased during the pandemic. A quarter said Covid had made no difference to inequality and 16% were unsure. The commission...

Source: UK Government Nearly six in ten people believe the pandemic has increased the gulf between social classes, according to a new poll from the Social Mobility Commission. The Social Mobility Barometer, 2021, unveils deep concern that social division in Britain has increased as a result of the COVID-19 outbreak. Four in five adults (79%) now believe there is a large gap between different social classes and over half the public (56%) think the pandemic has increased social inequality. A thir...

The majority of us believe the pandemic has widened the gap between the most and least well-off, a research group said yesterday. And over half of the population believe that mental health has been the greatest casualty of the crisis, according to the Social Mobility Commission. Its report said 56 per cent of Britons think that lockdowns have increased inequality.  The last year has seen salaried middle-class office staff working from home while lower-paid and often young service sector worker...

The Budget could have gone further to ensure funds will drive the right outcomes for the most disadvantaged, says Social Mobility Commission.