Schools and local authorities are responsible for the recruitment of their supply teachers and deciding whether they use private agencies to recruit and employ them. If a supply teacher is employed by a private agency or their umbrella company, this is a private commercial arrangement between the school and agency.<\/p>
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The Department for Education does not provide guidance on tax and unemployment matters. These are matters for Her Majesty\u2019s Revenue and Customs and the Department for Work and Pensions, respectively.<\/p>
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The Government is committed to our goal of ending child poverty in the UK by 2020.<\/p>
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The 2014-17 Child Poverty Strategy outlines our plans to tackle the root causes of poverty, including worklessness, low earnings and educational failure. This approach reflects the reality of child poverty in the UK today and is the only way to achieve lasting change to protect the poorest in society.<\/p>
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Under this Government, 300,000 fewer children are in relative income poverty, around 390,000 fewer children are growing up in workless families, the attainment gap for deprived pupils has narrowed, and we have recently seen the largest annual fall in unemployment on record.[1]<\/sup><\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> But central Government cannot, by itself, end child poverty. Where people live matters. This Government has taken action to give local areas more freedom to do what people want and need locally including by providing local data that helps users identify specific local challenges. Local Authorities are required to have their own local child poverty strategies.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Further information is outlined in the Child Poverty Strategy. Local data is also published in the child poverty basket of indicators.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Child Poverty Strategy: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-strategy-2014-to-2017<\/a><\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Child Poverty basket of indicators: https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/child-poverty-basket-of-local-indicators<\/a><\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> Our strategy is not just focussed on children; Universal Credit will reduce poverty by making work pay and providing an effective route out of poverty.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> This Government\u2019s welfare reforms will improve the lives of some of the poorest families in our communities by promoting work and helping people to lift themselves out of poverty.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> The Government recognises the immediate pressure on households and has responded with a range of policy interventions including:<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> · Providing funding for successive Council Tax freezes, saving the average household £1,100 during this Parliament.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> · Increasing the National Minimum Wage rate to £6.50 from October 2014, the first real terms increase since 2007.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> <\/p> · The largest ever increases in the income tax personal allowance, to £10,500 by April 2015, will save a typical taxpayer £805 per year compared to 2010, and will lift 3.2 million individuals out of income tax altogether by 2015/16.<\/p> <\/p> <\/p> [1] Based on Labour Market Statistics published in October 2014. In June-August 2014, there were 538,000 fewer unemployed people compared to a year earlier.<\/p> <\/p>"}
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