ESFA introduces guidance for academies on setting executive pay
While there is no single approach to pay that will work for every trust, the guidance sets out key factors that should be used by academy trust boards when setting or reviewing executive salaries, so they are set at fair, reasonable and justified levels.
The guidance for setting executive pay enables boards to be confident and accountable for the decisions made on their executive salaries.
Lord Agnew, Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the School System said:
“Over the past 18 months, we have cracked down on excessive executive pay. However, our focus is not only on challenging trusts where we identify disproportionately high salaries, but in providing support to trusts to enable them to make robust, evidence-based decisions about pay.”
“We expect trusts to make the most of this guidance to ensure that their salary levels are publicly justifiable and provide the best value for money for their institution.
Eileen Milner, ESFA chief executive said:
“We continue to keep a watchful eye on ensuring that excessive executive pay is challenged.
“It is crucial that executive salaries are set at a fair and justified level so that public funding is invested wisely on children’s education.
“Our guidance will help support academies in their decisions on how much executive pay should be set, so that salaries can be set confidently at a reasonable limit.”
Information and events for British citizens in Italy
New outreach meeting – updated 14 November 2022
Added a new event: Palermo Town Hall meeting with the new Ambassador Ed Llewellyn on 13 June
Added new outreach event: Meet Ambassador Ed Llewellyn at Villa Wolkonsky on 30 May
New outreach meeting – Town Hall event for UK Nationals in Bari on 26 May, 6pm to 7pm
Added a new outreach event: Town Hall for UK nationals in Perugia on 10 May, 1pm to 2pm
Added a new outreach event: Florence Town Hall event with the new Ambassador Ed Llewellyn, 10 May 6pm, St. Mark’s Church
Added a new outreach event: 11 May, Meet the new Ambassador Ed Llewellyn on Facebook and YouTube
Added Ambassador Ed Llewellyn’s first video message to British nationals in Italy and San Marino (on Facebook).
Added a new outreach event: Live Q&A on Citizens’ Rights for UK Nationals living in Italy on 17 February 2022
New issue (#26) of the Ambassador’s newsletter added
The live Q&A session scheduled for 16 December has been postponed to January 2022.
Added a new town hall event for UK Nationals in Naples
Added a new in-person Town Hall event for UK Nationals in Florence
Added a new in-person meeting for UK nationals in Milan
Updated 21 Sept 2021 – New meeting on 27 Sept
Added a new in-person town hall event in Rome
Added a new Residency Roadshow for UK Nationals in Marche, Abruzzo and Molise on Thursday 9 September, 10am to 1pm.
Added a new issue of the Ambassador’s newsletter
Added a new Residency Roadshow for UK Nationals in Sicily and Sardinia
Added a new Live Q&A Session on Mobility Rights – 10 June 5-6pm
Added a new residency roadshow for Piemonte and Liguria
Ambassador’s newsletter added 14 May 2021
Added new outreach meeting: Live Q&A on YouTube and Facebook 13 May 5-6pm
Added two new roadshow sessions for UK nationals living in Rome
New outreach event added: residency roadshow for Venice and Veneto
Added two outreach events on 25 March 2021
Added 4 new outreach events: 1 Residency Roadshow and 3 Healthcare Registration Info Sessions
Published the 23rd issue of the Ambassador’s Newsletter
Added a new outreach event: residency roadshow for UK nationals in Puglia
Added a new outreach event: FB live Q&A session on the new biometric residency card
Added a new Residency Roadshow session for UK nationals living in Naples and Campania
Added a new live Q&A session on Facebook
Published a new newsletter
New video message from HMA Jill Morris addressing British nationals in Italy.
Uploaded a new healthcare information booklet
Added a new outreach event: Registration Roadshow for UK nationals in Molise and Abruzzo
Added a new outreach event: FB live Q&A session on 21 December
Added a new outreach event: Registration Roadshow sessions for Palermo and Sicily
Added a new outreach event: Registration roadshow for UK nationals in Milan and the Lombardy region
November newsletter from Ambassador Jill Morris added
Added a new outreach event: Registration Roadshow session for UK Nationals living in Venice and the Veneto region
Added a new live Q&A session on Facebook – 23 November 2020
Added a new Registration Roadshow session – for UK Nationals living in Lucca and Tuscany
Added a new Registration Roadshow session for UK Nationals living in Rome and Lazio
We have announced a new Registration Roadshow session for Siena and Tuscany – 5 November
Publication of two new guides on residency registration in Italy and non-EU family members’ rights
We have published a new Ambassador’s newsletter
We have added a registration roadshow session on 23 October for UK Nationals living in Umbria and Castiglione del Lago
New outreach event added: Registration Roadshow for UK Nationals in Bologna and Emilia Romagna
New FB live Q & A session on 20 October
We have updated our Citizens’ Rights Information Handout
We have added an outreach event: FB live Q&A session on Residency and Registration on 17 September
We have updated the Citizens’ Rights Information Booklet
Added an outreach event: FB live Q&A session on 27 August
Newsletter from ambassador Morris 30 July 2020
New live Q&A on Facebook added
Newsletter from ambassador Jill Morris
Facebook Q&A session added – 11-06-20
Reminder for ‘post a question’ today at 1400
online Faceboook session 14 February 2020
We have changed the Information Guide for UK Nationals (2nd attachment)
We added the Information Guide for UK nationals in Italy
Newsletter from ambassador Jill Morris – 30 April 2020
Newsletter from ambassador Jill Morris 1 April 2020
Newsletter from Ambassador Morris 4 March – link to Facebook
Updated 5 February 2020
Update: addition of ambassador’s newsletter and citizens rights handout
We have attached a handout on citizens’ rights.
Town hall meetings agenda updated 17 January 2020
Updated 16 Jan 2020
New outreach events added in Pavia and Rome
We have added a message from HMA Jill Morris to UK Nationals: Issue no. 13
We have added an upcoming outreach meeting
We have added a new date under the upcoming outreach meetings
We regret to inform you that we have postponed the FB Live Q&A session scheduled for 12 November. There will be a new date after the UK elections. Apologies.
Facebook live session for 29 October postponed: new date 12 November 2019
New outreach meetings on UK in Italy Facebook and Bologna
upcoming town hall meetings in Montebello di Bertona (17 October) and Milan (15 October)
New citizens outreach meeting on the 15 October 2019 in Milan
Date for Rome outreach meeting set
Rome outreach event postponed till July
Upcoming meetings in June – updated 6 June 2019
New outreach meetings scheduled – updated 21 May 2019
New town hall meeting in Venice – updated 7 May 2019
New meeting with British nationals scheduled for Lucca.
News citizens’ rights and EU Exit meeting
News citizens’ outreach meeting in Genoa.
New meetings with expats scheduled: 18 February 2019
Ambassador Jill Morris sends out a new message to British nationals in Italy.
Upcoming town hall meetings updated 28 January 2019
Updated 11 January 2019
new message from British ambassador 24 December
New outreach meeting added
EU Exit update: New UK citizens’ meeting added for Rome
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Solar, high speed and wifi charging set to revolutionise electric transport
twelve projects set to receive almost £40 million to revolutionise the experience of owning an electric vehicle in the UK
innovations to receive investment include solar-powered forecourts, underground charging systems and electric vehicle wireless charging systems
government aims for these innovations to encourage uptake of electric vehicles – a key aim of the Road to Zero strategy which celebrates one-year anniversary
Today (9 July 2019), the government announced it is investing £37 million into British engineering to transform electric chargepoint infrastructure, revolutionising the experience for the record levels of ultra-low emission vehicle drivers on UK roads.
Twelve projects are set to receive a share of the funding, to support the creation of innovations including wireless charging technologies, meaning electric vehicles of the future could charge without the need to plug in a cable.
The news comes on the one-year anniversary of the government’s Road to Zero strategy, which has driven a 60% increase in battery electric vehicle registrations this year compared to the same period in 2018.
Future of Mobility Minister, Michael Ellis, said:
We’re charging up the transport revolution and investing in technologies to transform the experience for electric vehicle drivers.
Ensuring the charging infrastructure for electric vehicles is reliable and innovative is encouraging more people to join the record numbers of ultra-low emission vehicle users already on UK roads.
The Road to Zero strategy sets out new measures to clean up road transport and lead the world in developing, manufacturing and using zero emission road vehicles. Through funding these projects, the government is incentivising drivers to move towards buying electric vehicles, supporting the key aims of the strategy.
Urban Foresight, a smart city consultancy, has been awarded over £3 million to roll out ‘pop-up’ chargers which are built into the pavement and provide a discreet, safe and low-cost charging solution for electric vehicle drivers without access to off-street parking.
Further projects to receive funding include:
a renovation project, installing chargepoints in car parks to allow for mass charging at night
a project leveraging existing Virgin Media physical and online infrastructure to deliver cost-effective and widespread charging, using high speed internet connections to better share information online on charging progress and parking spaces
a cutting edge storage and advanced electronics project that will deliver semi-rapid charging using a low power grid connection minimising the need for costly substation upgrades
Char.gy, an electric charging company, has been awarded over £2.3 million and will use the funding to develop deploy wireless charging technology on residential streets without the need for trailing cables and additional infrastructure.
Initial 3 month feasibility studies have been completed and successful projects are moving onto the next stage of development.
Richard Stobart, CEO of Char.gy, said:
Our consortium is delighted to be funded by Innovate UK to demonstrate induction charging on residential streets in Milton Keynes, the London Borough of Redbridge and Buckinghamshire County. Working in collaboration with the Open University and The University of Warwick’s WMG we are excited to show that our ability to retrofit to existing electric vehicles and enable several parking bays per lamp column without the need for cables will accelerate the uptake of electric vehicles.
Keith Johnston, co-founder of Urban Electric, said:
On behalf of the ‘Clean Streets’ consortium we are delighted to be a winner in the Innovate UK Electric Vehicle Charging For Public Spaces competition. Together with our partners Urban Foresight, Co-wheels, Duku and Appy parking we look forward to demonstrating Urban Electric’s pop-up charging hubs in Dundee and Plymouth and to bringing residential on-street charging for the 50% of people that park on-street at night in cities one step closer to reality.
The announcement is another milestone for the government’s Future of Mobility Grand Challenge, which aims to tap into the extraordinary innovation across the country in order to make every day journeys greener, safer, easier and more reliable.
HPV vaccine could prevent over 100,000 cancers
Estimates suggest that the HPV vaccine programme could prevent over 64,000 cervical cancers and nearly 50,000 non-cervical cancers by 2058.
From September 2019, boys in school year 8 will be offered the free Human Papilloma Virus (HPV) vaccine for the first time.
Worldwide, about 5% of all cancers are linked to the HPV virus. This includes cervical, penile, anal and genital cancers and some cancers of the head and neck – all of which the vaccine helps to protect against. Cervical cancer is currently the most common cancer in women under 35, killing around 850 women each year. HPV is thought to be responsible for over 99% of cervical cancers, as well as 90% of anal, about 70% of vaginal and vulvar cancers and more than 60% of penile cancers.
Modelling produced by the University of Warwick estimates that by 2058 in the UK the HPV vaccine currently being used may have prevented up to 64,138 HPV-related cervical cancers and 49,649 other HPV-related cancers. This would be 50 years after the introduction of the HPV vaccination programme, when people who were vaccinated as teenagers have reached the age groups that they would typically be affected by HPV-related cancers.
Head of Immunisation at Public Health England (PHE) Dr Mary Ramsay said:
This universal programme offers us the opportunity to make HPV-related diseases a thing of the past and build on the success of the girls’ programme.
Offering the vaccine to boys will not only protect them but will also prevent more cases of HPV-related cancers in girls and reduce the overall burden of these cancers in both men and women in the future.
I encourage all parents of eligible boys and girls to make sure they take up the offer for this potentially life-saving vaccine.
It’s important not to delay vaccination, as the vaccine may be less effective as adolescents get older.
Public Health Minister Seema Kennedy said:
The success of the HPV vaccine programme for girls is clear and by extending it to boys we will go a step further to help us prevent more cases of HPV-related cancer every year.
Through our world-leading vaccination programme, we have already saved millions of lives and prevented countless cases of terrible diseases. Experts predict that we could be on our way toward eliminating cervical cancer for good.
Programmes like this are at the heart of our work to help people live longer, healthier lives through the NHS Long Term Plan and I would encourage everyone who is eligible to take up this potentially life-saving vaccine.
National Cancer Director at NHS England Cally Palmer said:
By extending the HPV vaccine to boys, the NHS is taking an important step forward in our fight to prevent cancer – more people will be better protected, and the vaccine could help to eliminate cervical cancer in this country.
Cancer survival is now at an all-time high, and the NHS Long Term Plan will save even more lives through enhanced screening and early diagnosis programmes to catch cancers sooner when they can be treated best.
Girls have been offered the human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine free from the NHS since 2008. So far, 10 million doses of HPV vaccine have been given to young women in this country meaning over 80% of women aged 15 to 24 have received the vaccine.
Since the introduction of HPV vaccination, infections of some types of HPV (HPV 16/18) in 16 to 21 year old women have reduced by 86% in England. A Scottish study also showed that the vaccine has reduced pre-cancerous cervical disease in women by up to 71%. Similarly, diagnoses of genital warts have declined by 90% in 15 to 17 year old girls and 70% in 15 to 17 year old boys due to the HPV vaccine.
Parents of girls and boys aged 12 and 13 should look out for information from their children’s school about the vaccine and timings for the jab. If they miss out on the vaccination for any reason they should talk to their school nurse or immunisation team about getting the vaccine at a later date.
The first dose of the HPV vaccine will be offered to boys and girls aged 12 and 13 in year 8. The second dose can be given anytime between 6 to 24 months after. Two doses are needed to be fully protected.
Girls and boys who have their first vaccination after the age of 15 will need to have 3 doses.
Older boys (those currently aged 13 to 18) will not be offered the vaccine on a ‘catch-up’ basis.
The human papilloma virus (HPV) vaccine currently used in the NHS vaccination programme is called Gardasil. Prior to September 2012, a vaccine called Cervarix was used.
Studies have already shown that the vaccine protects against HPV infection for at least 10 years, although experts expect protection to last for much longer and may be lifelong.
Extensive reviews of HPV vaccine safety have been undertaken by various independent health bodies/authorities worldwide including the EMA, CDC, WHO and the Commission on Human Medicines (CHM). These have concluded that the HPV vaccine is safe and effective.
HPV
Human papilloma virus (HPV) is the name for a group of viruses that affect your skin and the moist membranes lining your body. Examples of this include your cervix, anus or mouth and throat.
There are more than 100 types of HPV. Around 40 types of HPV infection can affect the genital area.
Genital HPV infections are common and highly contagious. They’re spread during sexual activity.
Infection with some types of genital HPV can cause:
genital warts – the most common viral sexually transmitted infection (STI) in England
abnormal tissue growth and other changes to cells within the cervix – this can sometimes lead to cervical cancer
HPV can also cause a number of different types of cancers, such as:
anal cancer
cancer of the penis
some types of head and neck cancer
Other types of HPV infection can cause minor problems, such as warts and verrucas.
HPV-related cancers prevented estimates
The estimates produced by the University of Warwick are based on a comparison between there being no HPV vaccination programme and the girls programme starting in 2008 with the addition of boys in 2017.
All estimates are based on the use of the bivalent (2 strains of HPV) for the first 4 years of the programme and then the quadrivalent (4 strains of HPV) vaccine for the whole period (2008 to 2058).
The estimates provided are the total reductions in cancer from 2008 to 2058 in the UK due to vaccination and breakdown as follows:
This year’s National Democracy Week will kick off on Monday 14th October 2019. The week is being led by Democratic Engagement Champions, organisations across the UK who are passionate about democratic engagement.
National Democracy Week is the perfect opportunity to raise awareness of what democracy means, and how we can encourage more people to take part.
Whether you’re hosting a single event or a whole programme of activities, we have one shared goal:
Regardless of who we are or where we are from, we must work together to ensure that every member of society has an equal chance to participate in our democracy and to have their say.
