The system ran well for many and with pay being based on responsibility level and not gender it drove adult training, supporting further education establishments as the ambitious workforces wished to increase their income level through being able to perform and accept higher levels of responsibility.
But it is a system that can be stymied by political tacticians and after the 2010 General Election the system was seriously eroded through Conservative austerity which hit budgets for both the NHS and Local Government so voraciously that further education was placed behind the nine ball through the loss of custom.
It's been noted by many that ‘Conservative Austerity’ has eaten into public services so hard in the recent spring budget the Chancellor has demanded an alteration in the way National Insurance is harvested to fund care and wellbeing and that's on top of Unitary Councils annual stealth tax levy to attempt to safeguard care for the elderley. It has also left thousands of workers cut off from ambition and stuck on grades that as staff leave the sector they have been simply expected to absorb and take on higher levels of responsibility without an increase in grade or salary level.
Trade Unions and Think Tanks agree that real time wages in the public sector have fallen by around 20% since 2010 and at the moment early calculations show that the mismanagement of the economy will cost the public sector workforce and extra £81 per month in inflationary costs outside London which has unique problems all of its own.
The public sector is at
rock bottom and demands from Trade Unions for a three year public sector
inflation busting pay deal beginning with a 12% pay rise in October 2022 is the
only way to stop services including education and care collapsing and the
Chancellor should take notice immediately before the ‘New Titanic’ of public
services sinks below the
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