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This is an excellent summary of the 'Adult Social Care Negotiating Body' section of the Employment Rights Bill, and how it relates to Labour's pledge for a Fair Pay Agreement in social care, from Andrew Harrop cradle2grave.substack.com/p/labours-plan…

Why the chancellor is right to target pensions taxation and 5 principles for reform - new post from my new substack (there's a mini-thread with more detail over at the other place) cradle2grave.substack.com/p/why-the-chan…

Why the chancellor is right to target pensions taxation… and five principles for reform cradle2grave.substack.com/p/why-the-chan…

Massive congratulations to Joe Dromey on his appointment to succeed me as The Fabian Society general secretary. Joe is a fantastic policy thinker and I know he will lead the society from strength to strength

Why can’t Britain build anything anymore? The news this week of the £100m ‘bat tunnel’ gave us some clues. Here’s the story of this tunnel, which has been 12 years in the making, and some thoughts on what it tells us

POST - A Revealing Correction Policy changes announced in last month's Budget will cost publicly-funded adult social care at least £1 billion per year cradle2grave.substack.com/p/a-revealing-…

Ooh this is interesting for #socialcare folk

Wow. A budget correction spotted by ⁦Andrew Harrop⁩ open.substack.com/pub/cradle2gra…

Adult social care faces an £800 million per year bill for the rise in employer NICs, according to a revealing correction to the OBR’s Budget Day analysis No word yet as to how/whether the government will support this cost POST on my blog Cradle To Grave cradle2grave.substack.com/p/a-revealing-…

This is important. Office for Budget Responsibility Budget analysis originally included compensation for adult #SocialCare to counter the NICs rise. OBR mistake? Last min HM Treasury U-turn? Why doesn't matter. What matters is what Rachel Reeves & Wes Streeting do next. #ProvidersUnite #ShowUsYouCare

POST - Is child poverty at a record high? - it is according to one measure published this week - but two other benchmarks show it is 'only' back to pre-pandemic levels - we should watch all these measures - & the way we survey poverty also needs updating open.substack.com/pub/cradle2gra…

V good piece on targets - with some smart advice on disposable income>GDP as a measure of success

It was a pleasure to chair The Fabian Society’s Annual General Meeting It has been a phenomenal year for the The Fabian Society Fabian policies helped shape the election manifesto and are now becoming government policies We were delighted to see 141 Fabian MPs elected to

We were delighted to welcome Joe Dromey as our incoming General Secretary We heard about the brilliant work being done by the Young Fabians The Fabian Women network continues to support 100s of women Special thanks to Christine Megson and Caroline Adams, who run our mentoring

We paid thanks to Andrew Harrop for his stewardship of the Fabian Society over the past 14 years. With exemplary leadership, he steered the Society through turbulent times, and he has left a strong organisation and a fantastic legacy From this foundation, we look forward to

The monumental election result was bittersweet for the The Fabian Society As members of our executive had to step down due to being in government We are incredibly grateful to Rt Hon Lord Kennedy 🇬🇧🇮🇪🇺🇦 and The Lord Leong CBE for your work over the years as former chairs and treasurers We look

“If Labour achieves its 6 milestones it will have a proud record” My analysis for @labourlist.bsky.social in which I praise 5 out of 6 of today’s milestones labourlist.org