NJC for brigade managers - Gold Book pay award 2026 The NJC for Brigade Managers has agreed to a pay award.
Circular NJC/3/26 – Continual professional development payments: payments by authority Appendix A contains the revised payments by individual fire authority.
Circular NJC/2/26 – Pay award 2026 The NJC has agreed an increase of 3.8 per cent with effect from 1 July 2026. This circular contains the revised rates of pay from 1 July 2026.
Rt Hon Stephen Dorrell, Chairman, NHS Confederation The key question which we need to address if we are to develop high quality care and support services for people of any age is the relationship
Richard Humphries, Senior Fellow, The King’s Fund The last twenty years have seen at least five independent reviews of social care funding and twelve white papers, green papers and consultations of
Sir David Behan CBE, Chief Executive, Care Quality Commission I have spent the past forty years working in social care. Even before I started my career there had already been attempts to reform and reorganise
Is consensus achievable? In this collection of articles, sector experts reflect on the importance of political and public consensus in developing and delivering proposals to secure the long-term financial sustainability of adult social care and support.
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Rt Hon Norman Lamb MP When the Prime Minister called a snap election to secure a mandate for her vision of Brexit, few people expected the funding of adult social care to
Barbara Keeley MP, Shadow Cabinet Minister for Mental Health and Social Care Bold action on funding reform is the birthday present that social care deserves on its 70 th Birthday Next month the country will proudly celebrate
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