Calls to move England’s home insulation scheme into council workers’ hands pred 8 urami in 53 minutami Thinktank proposes councils stop using private contractors in attempt to improve quality and spendingCouncils should train up their own workers to install insulation in England’s draughty houses, and offer home upgrades street by street, beginning in the most deprived areas, according to proposals for cutting energy bills.Setting up “home improvement corporations” would allow greater control by councils over low-carbon retrofits for housing, and would be a more efficient way of spending limited public funds for insulation, according to the Common Wealth thinktank, sets out the proposals in a report this week. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
Democrats in four states seek to bar ICE employees from future civil service jobs pred 8 urami in 53 minutami Bills aim to make ICE employees ineligible for jobs in law enforcement, public education and state civil serviceSupercharged by billions in dollars from Congress, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has hired thousands of new officers to carry out Donald Trump’s mass deportation campaign in an effort it has likened to “wartime recruitment”. In several states, Democratic lawmakers want applicants to think twice about taking part.Bills introduced in recent weeks in the legislatures of at least four Democratic-led states would impose long-term consequences on new ICE employees by rendering them ineligible for jobs in law enforcement, public education, and, in their most expansive form, the entire state civil service. Continue reading...(The Guardian)
