AN INITIATIVE to invest in more than 600 apprenticeships in the early years sector is being spearheaded by the Co-op.
The retail giant, along with other members of The Royal Foundation’s business taskforce for early childhood, is targeting employers across the private, public, voluntary and community sectors.
Its aim is to help deliver the workforce required to staff the creation of 3,000 nurseries across England.
RMT’s former president ALEX GORDON explains why his union supports defence diversification and a just transition for workers in regions dependent on military contracts, and calls on readers to join CND’s demo against nuclear-armed submarines on June 7
When privatisation is already so deeply embedded in the NHS, we can’t just blindly argue for ‘more funding’ to solve its problems, explain ESTHER GILES, NICO CSERGO, BRIAN GIBBONS and RATHI GUHADASAN



