Web links for 27th December 2010

27 Dec 2010, by ToUChstone blog in Web links

• Stripping child benefit from high taxpayers will cost £370 million
  Creating the new system to claw back Child Benefit from higher rate taxpayers will cost £130 million. 200,000 single income households will lose out, while “nearly a million two-income families with a combined income of between £44,000 and £88,000 who will keep their benefits because neither the mother nor father is a higher rate taxpayer. “
• Legal aid cuts will hit women the hardest, says justice department
  “The Guardian” reports that the Department of Justice’s own Equality Impact Assessment of the planned cuts in Legal Aid will disproportionately affect women, who will make up 57% of those affected. Members of minority ethnic groups and disabled people will also be hit.
• EIS Petitions Scottish Parliament on lack of jobs for new teachers
  Scottish teaching union EIS has delivered a 5,000 signature petition to the Scottish Parliament, calling for action to make sure that there are enough jobs for all new teachers at the end of their probationary year. A survey of new teachers by the General Teaching Council for Scotland has found that more than a quarter have found no teaching work at all.