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Cost of Living focus: Your FAQs answered on inflation and rising costs

What’s the difference between cost of living and inflation? The cost of living refers to the amount of money required to sustain a certain standard of living, including expenses such as housing, food, transportation, and healthcare. It varies depending on location, lifestyle, and individual preferences. While the cost of living considers specific expenses, inflation reflects … Read more Cost of Living focus: Your FAQs answered on inflation and rising costs

The Island Games: More than just sport performances

The Guernsey 2023 NatWest International Island Games XIX was a week when sport took over the front pages, as well as the back. Throughout the week, triumphs and disappointments were reported at pace. But off the pitches, courts, and tracks, there was work going on behind the scenes which didn’t make the papers. For Jersey, … Read more The Island Games: More than just sport performances

Economic Notes: July

Updating the School Funding Formula

Posted on Categories Education

Today the Government has published an updated funding formula for 2023, which outlines how the education budget has been allocated to schools in the financial year 2023.  What is the school funding formula?  The funding formula is an operational document – it sets out the budgets for the different areas that schools need to fund. … Read more Updating the School Funding Formula

A pledge to a panel to ensure Jersey Children’s Day is never forgotten.

My First Year in Government

I have observed elections from the outside in the past and having worked for over a decade within the civil service, and more recently within the charitable sector, I have often noticed that this initial burst of energy tends to fade away rapidly as elected politicians revert to type and fall out of listening mode.

Inspiring Islanders with the NatWest International Island Games 2023

Chief Minister: reflections on one year in the role

Hospitality and Tourism – why is now a critical turning point and why do we need a strategy? 

Why we can’t give teachers a 15.4% pay rise