Public sector

HM Inspectorate of Probation finds 29% vacancy rate and highlights issues around hybrid working.

The police force reveals there has been 100 dismissals for gross misconduct over the past year, as the Met scrambles to overhaul its culture.

A government taskforce is aiming to cut teachers' workload by five hours a week to help improve retention.

With concerns growing about the ‘Pirola’ variant of Covid-19, a teaching union has called for those with long Covid not to be forgotten.

There are significant variations in maternity pay across fire and rescue services in the UK.

The political furore over crumbling concrete in schools and hospitals has led to fears that putting things right could in...

Thousands of police officers' personal details have been stolen in a cyber attack, Greater Manchester Police has said.

South Cambridgeshire District Council will continue its trial of a four-day work week, expanding it to bin collection workers.

Retired anaesthetist says female surgeons should ‘toughen up’after research indicated that 30% have been sexually assaulted by colleagues.

Members of the TUC are expected to work with unions to produce a model template for public sector pay review bodies.

Peer-reviewed research finds that nearly one in three female surgeons have been sexually assaulted and two-thirds sexually harassed.

GMB is the largest staff union at Birmingham City Council, which this week declared itself effectively bankrupt.

Staff at 140 universities across the UK have ended the marking and assessment boycott but will strike for five days later this month.

A group of academics at Cambridge University have been accused of editing evidence of the impact of a council’s four-day working week trial.

Birmingham City Council has declared itself effectively bankrupt after revealing it does not have the funds to settle equal pay claims.