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Education | What school leaders need to know about September 2025 pay changes

10th July 2025 No Comments

BLOG Written on 9 July 2025 As we near the end of the summer term, headteachers, school business managers and senior Trust staff, along with

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6 ways Labour’s proposed reforms will impact schools

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BLOG Written by Jane Hallas on 9 September 2024 As the new Labour government continues to advance its legislative agenda, educational institutions must be prepared

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BLOG Written by Jane Hallas on 30 January 2024 Calculating holiday pay has been a notoriously tricky task. However, new Regulations (which make various changes

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Recent cases highlight continued work at height failings

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BLOG Written on 6 May 2022 Working at height continues to be the leading cause of work-related fatality. According to most recent HSE figures, these

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BLOG Written by Jane Hallas on 18 May 2021 During our recent Education Breakfast Briefing, we recapped some of the recent employment law developments that

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Blog Nearly 700 schools have been referred to the HSE after failing to satisfy the Department for Education (DfE) that they were managing asbestos in

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