by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 20, 2020 | Uncategorised
The government has announced a new support payment to help with self-isolation, and new fines for breaching self-isolation rules. A payment of £500 for those on lower incomes who cannot work from home and have lost income as a result has been announced, with new fines...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
EDSK, an independent ‘think tank’, has published a report, funded by the Further Education Trust for Leadership (FETL), outlining a package of reforms to create a new role, purpose and direction for the FE sector. One of the recommendations of the report...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
The Institute for Employment Studies has published a briefing note estimating the impact on redundancies of COVID-19. It uses newly released data from employers planning 20 or more redundancies alongside historic estimates of actual redundancies, in order to estimate...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
West Sussex County Council’s Cabinet has met to discuss the county’s response to COVID-19. An ‘economy reset plan’ is in development to supersede the county council’s existing Economic Growth Plan. It proposes nine priority themes to help mitigate the...
by Sarah Sawyer | Sep 18, 2020 | Uncategorised
PWC has published research assessing the impact on the UK economy of office workers continuing to work from home, versus if they were to return to their pre-COVID-19 offices for their regular working hours. One of their key findings is that if those workers continue...