Salaries: Councils warned on pay

By Simon Vevers, Nursery World, 20 February 2008

Local authorities no longer have any excuse for not implementing equal pay awards affecting nursery nurses and school support staff since the Government pledged fresh support, the leader of the Professional Association of Teachers (PAT) said last week.

PAT general secretary Philip Parkin said it was 'good news' the Government had again agreed to allow councils further scope for capitalisation of their assets. Capitalisation is a process in which local authorities are able to borrow against their assets over several years. The Government issued £500m of capitalisation directions for equal pay back-pay in September 2007 to 46 local authorities in...

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