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Agency social work to be banned in Northern Ireland trusts next year

Community Care

We’d have devolution and decentralised management structures, matching the five trust boundaries, but have one chief executive heading them up. The UK government has set the political parties in Northern Ireland a deadline of 8 December to restore the executive, which has not been functioning since February. It’s big but not massive.

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UK set for new wave of strikes as civil servants and train drivers vote for action – politics live

The Guardian

Around 100,000 civil servants from multiple government agencies have voted to strike in a dispute over pay, pensions and jobs According to Pat Leahy , political editor of the Irish Times, the Irish government is doubtful about the prospect of a breakthrough in the coming weeks in the talks on the Northern Ireland protocol.