As Deven Ghelani says here, this is a benefit not a cost! Low take-up has always been an issue with Pension Credit. If WFA cut means better off pensioners lose while poorer ones claim PC, that's a win-win.. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Winter fuel cut savings will be far less than Reeves expected, new analysis finds

A surge in claims for pension credit will make thousands more people eligible for the payments and other benefits

💼 A cabinet minister has said failing to get young people into work could result in a “lifelong cost” for “them and for the taxpayer”

Cabinet Minister Warns Of "Lifelong Cost" To Taxpayers If Youth Employment Isn't Addressed

A cabinet minister has said failing to get young people into work could result in a “lifelong cost” for “them and for the taxpayer”, as the Government announced its plans for a new youth guarantee.

Note to journalists - the wonks and spads and politicians talking up increasing #student#justsaying#NUSUK

Ahhh, Oxford, that famous university, struggling to get by with an endowment of *checks notes* £8 billions... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of...

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I find it weird that The Guardian insists on using this photo to indicate "universities", and I *actually went* to this college

Someone at a fringe just said St Albans hasn't had a local plan since 1994. York hadn't had one since... 1954. there were gasps

Hey, so it looks like the world is going to have installed another terawatt of solar capacity in 2yrs (2023/24) That's enough to meet the electricity demand of South Korea, the UK & Italy combined Also – it took 22yrs to install the first terawatt?! 🤯 www.carbonbrief.org/debriefed-20...

DeBriefed 20 September 2024: Europe’s worst storm for ‘two decades’; Record solar boom; How China talks about its energy transition - Carbon Brief

This week, Carbon Brief covers the findings of a new report exploring how Chinese media is covering its transition away from fossil fuels.

And yet schools are still making families pay for expensive logo uniform, punishing students for lack of equipment and saying behaviour is TikTok related not maybe hunger or stress. Imagine if you could kit your child out for £20 at Asda not £300. And if schools took cash.

#EduSky@rcpsych.bsky.socialwww.if.org.uk/2024/09/17/o...

shocking child poverty in UK

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And this for Plan 5 (new students) …

Much talk on English student finance while younger generations face 50% or more marginal tax rates…lowering the repayment rate should be a starting point by the new #Labour government