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	<title>Public Finance Opinion &#187; Heather Wakefield</title>
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		<title>VIDEO BLOG: Mutual appreciation? By Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/08/mutual-appreciation-by-heather-wakefield/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 Aug 2010 10:28:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[PF blogger and head of local government at Unison discusses employee-owned public services; the impact of spending cuts on women; and the coalition government's record to date.]]></description>
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		<title>From Toy Story to Tory story, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/08/from-toy-story-to-tory-story-by-heather-wakefield/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/08/from-toy-story-to-tory-story-by-heather-wakefield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Aug 2010 18:34:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Our welfare state is being dismantled with indecent haste before our very eyes by aristocrats and the Jimmy Choo'd middle classes who have never had as much as a whiff of what it means to go hungry so that your kids can eat]]></description>
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		<title>Council workers still frozen out, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/06/council-workers-still-frozen-out-by-heather-wakefield/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/06/council-workers-still-frozen-out-by-heather-wakefield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Jun 2010 09:12:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[budget 2010]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Pay and pensions]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/?p=3992</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The chancellor said that those earning £21,000 or less would receive an increase of at least £250 a year - enough to buy five rolls of Osborne and Little's cheapest wallpaper]]></description>
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		<title>PF took my comments out of context, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/06/pf-took-my-comments-out-of-context-by-heather-wakefield/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/06/pf-took-my-comments-out-of-context-by-heather-wakefield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 11 Jun 2010 15:28:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[CIPFA Conference 2010]]></category>
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		<category><![CDATA[Efficiency]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Your web story, 'Union members might accept job losses in return for more say', reports less than 10% of my speech to the CIPFA conference - and so takes the little mentioned entirely out of context. ]]></description>
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		<title>Bigging it up for public servants, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/05/bigging-it-up-for-public-servants-by-heather-wakefield/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/05/bigging-it-up-for-public-servants-by-heather-wakefield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 04 May 2010 22:21:02 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/?p=3580</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[Public sector workers are unused to receiving invitations. What's in David Cameron's Big Society offer for them?]]></description>
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		<title>After the elections: bring them to book, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/04/after-the-elections-bring-them-to-book-by-heather-wakefield/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 Apr 2010 18:25:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Education]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[While they should really be facing charges of crimes against humanity for the global misery they have inflicted, banks and business leaders instead continue ]]></description>
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		<title>Chelsea pensioners, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/03/chelsea-pensioners-by-heather-wakefield/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/03/chelsea-pensioners-by-heather-wakefield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 11:19:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Tory Party, the Taxpayers’ Alliance, some Liberal Democrats and many others are doing their best to ensure that Local Government Pension Scheme members are deprived of a ‘gold-plated’, final salary retirement. But the LGPS is not overly generous and many of the criticisms of it are ill-founded.]]></description>
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		<title>The cult of council tax cuts, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/02/the-cult-of-council-tax-cuts-by-heather-wakefield/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/02/the-cult-of-council-tax-cuts-by-heather-wakefield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Tue, 09 Feb 2010 10:58:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[All over the country, councils are seeking to freeze or even cut council tax. This will have devastating effects on local services, while saving council taxpayers very little indeed.]]></description>
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		<title>The perfect pay storm? By Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/01/the-perfect-pay-storm/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/01/the-perfect-pay-storm/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jan 2010 10:44:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/?p=2927</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[HEATHER WAKEFIELD &#124; Over 1.5 million local government workers face a pay cut this year after the employers chose not to make a pay offer. Will this create the perfect pay storm?]]></description>
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		<title>Battles on the home front, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/01/battles-on-the-home-front/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2010/01/battles-on-the-home-front/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 18 Jan 2010 10:59:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/?p=2881</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[HEATHER WAKEFIELD &#124; Housing policy popped up in the general election campaign last week with the Liberal Democrats pledging to make 760,000 empty homes in England available for people who need them]]></description>
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		<title>Good will hunting, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/11/good-will-hunting-by-heather-wakefield/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/11/good-will-hunting-by-heather-wakefield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Nov 2009 10:52:38 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<category><![CDATA[Care]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[HEATHER WAKEFIELD &#124; Inadequate funding of home care will make the laudable aims of the National Care Service unattainable. The poor treatment of the workforce will undermine the need to raise standards and recruit more carers as the goodwill of women runs out.]]></description>
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		<title>Unkind cuts, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/11/unkind-cuts-by-heather-wakefield/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/11/unkind-cuts-by-heather-wakefield/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 09 Nov 2009 11:25:36 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HEATHER WAKEFIELD &#124; Sorry to be a party-pooper, but this has been another of ‘those’ weeks in Unison’s local government section – an increasingly familiar week, in which our ‘Jobs Watch’ tracked the relentless rise in council redundancies]]></description>
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		<title>A touch of frost, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/10/a-touch-of-frost/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/10/a-touch-of-frost/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 16 Oct 2009 11:50:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[HEATHER WAKEFIELD&#124; There will not be a collective holding of breath from 1.5 million local government workers on October 26, when Unison lodges its claim for their 2010/11 pay increase]]></description>
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		<title>Labour’s not finished yet, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/09/labour%e2%80%99s-not-finished-yet/</link>
		<comments>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/09/labour%e2%80%99s-not-finished-yet/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Sep 2009 09:49:52 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/?p=2280</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[‘A party of restless and relentless reformers’ was how Gordon Brown described us here at Labour Party conference in Brighton yesterday]]></description>
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		<title>Live from Liverpool, by Heather Wakefield</title>
		<link>http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/2009/09/live-from-liverpool/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Sep 2009 13:01:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Heather Wakefield</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://opinion.publicfinance.co.uk/?p=2180</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[HEATHER WAKEFIELD &#124; We may never know if Gordon Brown’s fondness for Dear Prudence stemmed from a love of the Beatles’ 1968 vintage White Album track, but he was in the Fab Four’s home town yesterday, forced to confront the sort of economic and fiscal crisis which Dear P alone might not be able to solve.]]></description>
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