Will be introduced from 1 November to protect viable jobs in businesses that are facing lower demand over the winter months due to coronavirus, and will run for 6 months.
Note focus on viable jobs i.e. jobs that exist and can continue to exist, unlike jobs that couldn’t happen like under the Job Retention Scheme: so this scheme is significantly less generous, although understandably since previous level of support couldn’t go on forever.
Scheme contributes towards the wages of employees who are working fewer than normal hours:
- employers will continue to pay the wages of staff for the hours they work
- for the hours not worked, the government and the employer will each pay one third of their equivalent salary
The government's consultation on proposals to extend the dormant assets scheme closes today: gov.uk/government/con…
@NCVO has submitted a short response welcoming the proposed expansion of the scheme: any expansion means more assets going towards causes that benefit the wider public and particularly the most disadvantaged
We also support the @LocalTrust proposal to use the money from the next wave of dormant assets to establish a Community Wealth Fund: this would see funding decisions devolved directly to communities and local organisations
I am very grateful to the @PublicStandards Committee for asking my views about the current regulation of elections, and the role of the Electoral Commission, specifically in relation to non-party campaigners
These are some of the things we spoke about: 1. The need for alignment between PPERA and the RPA, so charities no longer have to grapple with different tests for what can fall within the definition of ‘controlled expenditure’
2. The importance for the Electoral Commission to have a full toolbox, and the right tools to enforce electoral law – especially as new forms of campaigning emerge in the digital era.
1. Today the Higher Education and Research Act 2017 Regulations 2019 come into force: they make amendments to Schedule 3 to the Charities Act 2011 in relation to exempt charities that have the Office for Students as their principal regulator.
2. The amendments, will enable any higher education provider registered with the OfS to become an exempt charity by an Order issued by the Privy Council.
3. The Regulations will also remove exempt charity status from any higher education provider that is not registered with the OfS.
Great to see support for a better structured and more embedded #NCS - but surely a programme that contain elements of volunteering should not be made compulsory?
2. This would be contradictory to the principle of volunteering and counter-productive to the spirit of altruism that is at the heart of volunteering
3. Instead of compulsion, there are a number of other
steps that could be taken to enable NCS to be more effective at encouraging young people to become active citizens