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Reply | Public sector pay
at 22:54 17 Dec 2024
It’s shameful that such practices can exist today. Most carers, whether it’s in hospital, a home or in the community do a great job and they are almost always under appreciated. I think carers deserve more.
Band 2 NHS health care workers on wards or in the community are paid £12.08 per hour, about 60p above minimum wage, as a comparison LIDL pay their staff £12.40 per hour. |
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Reply | Gorllewin Abertawe Gŵyr
at 22:41 17 Dec 2024
I’m a Welsh speaker and can’t for the life of me understand why we can’t have bilingual constituencies - Gorllewin Abertawe Gwyr and Swansea West Gower. It’s crackers. |
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Reply | The I voted labour and want to apologise thread.
at 22:34 17 Dec 2024
But this mess is down to the Conservative governments of John Major, David Cameron and then Rishi Sunak who failed to act on the recommendations of the Ombudsmen. There’s been a 28 month delay, but Labour have only been in power for 6 months so the met of the delay is attributable to our last government.
FWIW, if the neutral ombudsman has recommended a pay out I think we should pay up because you can’t pick and choose what rules and laws etc you adhere to, the rules should be applied fairly and consistently across all levels and we have to take the tough with the smooth.
Neither this government or the last one have been prepared to cough up and if I am being honest I don’t know if we can afford to at this time, but it’s a wrong that should be corrected. [Post edited 17 Dec 22:55]
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Reply | Morriston A&E
at 20:17 17 Dec 2024
They shut it down because they couldn’t recruit doctors to run the service during the evening and into the night. I dare say there’d be doctors willing to do it for agency pay rates £700 to £1000 per shift, but not for contracted rates. I know a few nurses and it seems the WG and Health Boards are trying to reduce expenditure on agency staff, in terms of nursing it’s starting to work in lots of places because faced with little or not shifts nurses are returning to the NHS.
There’s an A&E in Glangwili. |
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Reply | Morriston A&E
at 18:46 16 Dec 2024
That’s p@@@ poor. You should have kicked off and asked to speak to the Service Delivery Manager.
A few months ago I had issues with the lack of progress /appointment for a long standing issue my mother was experiencing and the attitude of a member of staff when I asked a few questions. I ended up speaking to the Patient Advice Liaison Service and it got sorted. Get hold of the below and ask them to investigate /make a complaint. There’s also an independent patient advocacy service call Llais.
https://sbuhb.nhs.wales/community-primary-care/mental-health/perinatal/pmhs-page |
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Reply | Meanwhile in London….
at 21:25 15 Dec 2024
Some of the comments in the DM are downright racist. The offender is Asian heritage, but that doesn’t mean he’s an immigrant or a non british citizen, his family may have been here 80 plus years and he could be as British as half the uk.
Whatever his nationally or status, crimes like this are completely unacceptable and he deserves a massive stretch at HMP’s pleasure, if he is a foreign national he needs to be on a plane out of here as soon as he’s done his time. [Post edited 15 Dec 21:27]
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 00:31 15 Dec 2024
Yes - Bristol. Prices of housing and rents there have gone through the roof and cost a fortune. The degree is in Accountancy & Finance. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 23:32 14 Dec 2024
My eldest has debts north of 50k, tuition fees were around £9k per year, then there’s living expenses for rent etc rtc. The eldest is quite tight when it comes to money and his lifestyle was frugal but he’s still got massive debts.
The current rate of interest on student loans is around 7%, what hope have a lot of kids got! |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 22:54 14 Dec 2024
Both my kids are single and both work. One recently graduated from Uni and has loads of debt, the other is an apprentice and went straight in to work from school.
My first house was a terraced house in Neath Port Talbot, bought it knowing it needed work but was naive and ended up gutting the place. Had to make do with second hand furniture and I was lucky my parents bought my living room and stair carpet. [Post edited 14 Dec 23:09]
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 21:40 14 Dec 2024
There are 27 x two or more bedroom properties available in Swansea under £100k, only 12 are freehold properties, some are park homes (unmortgagable) and some are or will be cash only as they are not mortgageable etc because of the state their in - no kitchen etc etc or lots of remedial work which means lenders generally wont touch them.
There are 13 leasehold properties, 6 are holiday chalets down Gower, some of the remaining properties have lengthy leases, but some have less than a 100 years left which means some lenders won’t lend against the property, they also demand higher deposits and interest rates are higher.
It’s far from a rosy picture and it’s much harder for my kids to get on the property market than it was for me 35 years ago. |
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Reply | Could this be the beginning
at 17:36 14 Dec 2024
And 3 of the 5 current Reform MP’s are private school educated and very very wealthy.
What we need is a mix of people who have experienced life and worked in industry and people at the higher end who’ve experience in big business - not necessarily the City. |
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Reply | Could this be the beginning
at 23:14 13 Dec 2024
They may well be getting organised, but as yet they’re pretty light on substance. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 22:35 12 Dec 2024
I’m not disagreeing that the U.K. pension is well below what some countries offer and more than what others offer. The problem we have is that many people don’t want to pay the level f tax needed to pay pension and the NHS and there’s a whole cohort who’ve never put in and want to take out! Balancing things out requires compromises.
In my view, people have to take some personal responsibility and those who work should be making provision for their future and that the state pension should be the cherry on the cake and not, as it is in many cases the only source of income people have. Those who have been unable to work or who have worked and fallen foul of scammers or rules which were inherently unfair to should be supported, but those who couldn't be bothered to graft and contribute should get a lot less.
I believe the State pension should be universal and just because someone has an occupational pension of £70k pa shouldn’t stop them getting the State Pension because they’ve contributed enough, but they shouldn’t get the WHA. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 22:02 12 Dec 2024
Drakeford has explained that the increases are in part determined by demographics, particularly increasing and decreasing populations and also by the change in numbers of children going to school. There are other factors too, but the above are claimed to be the main drivers.
What we’re seeing is no different to what’s happened in the U.K. over the last 14 years, the Conservative areas were prioritised and other areas slipped down the pecking order. The failure to provide Wales with the compensatory funding Scotland and Northern Ireland received as part of the HS2 project is one such example as is the way Noris and the government spent the “levelling up “ funding in staunch blue seats instead.
Parties have always targeted the lions share of resources at their supporter base. [Post edited 12 Dec 22:03]
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 21:54 12 Dec 2024
I based it on a single person because many people who are looking for their first step on the property ladder are single like I was many years ago. When I bought my first house many years ago I maxed out on the affordability (it was 3.5 times my salary) and bought a house which needed a lot of work, so much so that I ended up gutting it.
If it’s a based on a couple it’s obviously a more affordable proposition, but for a single person that house in Swansea is a big commitment. |
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Reply | Morriston A&E
at 18:09 12 Dec 2024
I don’t think Blair could have opted out of the freedom of movement policy as it’s one of the fundamental cornerstones policies the EU have, but he could have opted to introduce “temporary” restrictions on movement when the policy went live. |
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Reply | No builders
at 22:38 11 Dec 2024
The Compulsory Purchase power isn’t straight forward, but if councils start increasing the tax levied on empty properties (something they are doing down my way) then this may lead to the house being brought back in to use, because in the space of a few years the council tax bill can treble. |
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Reply | Public sector pay
at 22:20 11 Dec 2024
I’ve just had a butchers on Zoopla and there are houses on there for around and under £100k, but a lot of them are for sale on auction platforms and even though the guide price is £100k the reserve is likely to be at least 10% higher. A lot of auction properties are offered on a cash sale basis which limits who can buy them and the 28 day sale/completion requirement will also make it difficult for people starting out in life.
A single person on minimum wage will take home around £18k per annum which will equate to around £1500 cm. Assuming they can buy a £100k property on a 95% mortgage, then if we use Rayners repayment figure of £525 that will leave them around £975.
Factor in council tax ((Band C) £120 per month, gas and electric £150, water £50, house insurance £40, life insurance/sickness cover £30, telephone/broadband £30 that leaves around £450 per month or £5k as “disposable” income. Out of that they’ll need to buy food and potentially run a car etc to get back and forth to work.
You are right - it won’t leave a great deal in the pocket and it won’t encourage a lot of people in to work. [Post edited 11 Dec 22:30]
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