Commuter rail strike talks resume as London braces for another disrupted week
Unions and operators return to the table after a weekend of cancelled services across the South East.
Scottish budget puts social care wages under fresh scrutiny
Unions want parity with NHS bands; councils warn of service cuts.
Holyrood’s budget debate centred on social care pay after unions argued that private and third-sector carers still lag behind NHS equivalents doing similar work.
Council leaders said without extra Barnett flexibility they would have to shrink home-visit hours to fund uplifts.
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