Unite members at Equinox Care have voted for two days of strike action over proposed pay cuts of up to £6,000 a year.

There is a lack of financial capability on small charity trustee boards with many organisations leaving ‘the finances’ to one individual, according to a report by the Charity Finance Group and the Small Charities Coalition launched today.

A lawyer for one of the councils involved in the Public Safety Charitable Trust rate relief case has insisted the charity has no right of appeal in the case and so cannot challenge the High Court ruling.

The Department for Work and Pensions should use some of the money it has saved on outcome payments in the first year of the Work Programme, to fund new services from specialist providers to help the most disadvantaged jobseekers engage with the Programme, an influential committee of MPs has said.