A new independent survey has found that a big majority of teachers believe school inspections help them set future priorities. The study by the National Foundation for Educational Research also reveals that teachers support the idea of pupils’ views being part of the inspection process.
Local government employers are being urged to open talks over their formal 0.5 per cent pay offer to council staff. Trade unions, UNISON, Unite and the GMB, which have met to consider their reaction to the offer, condemned it as totally unacceptable and called for meaningful negotiations as a matter of urgency.
Following their joint meeting they described the offer as “mean and paltry” and said it would be worth just three pence an hour to hundreds of thousands of lower-paid local government workers. For groups such as social workers and planners where, the unions say, there are already large numbers of vacancies, the increase would be no more than 7p an hour.
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By Matthew Lockwood and Reg Platt.
The Green Streets project, which was set up by British Gas as a social experiment in energy and carbon savings, resulted in gas demand on all households falling by almost 25 per cent. If all UK households were to see a similar fall, this would cut total demand for gas by over 8 per cent, representing about a third of current gas imports.
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