Omicron expected to cause increased staff absence levels in the spring term, with former teachers and supply agencies needed to expand supply staff across the country. The Government is asking former teachers who have the skills and time to return to the classroom to sign up from today (20 December, 2021). The Omicron variant is expected to […]

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Internationally mobile taxpayers, such as expats, freelancers and company founders are among those that have been affected by pandemic travel restrictions and the UK’s statutory residence test (SRT). HMRC has responded by introducing legislation (s109, Finance Act 2020) and publishing guidance to help affected taxpayers. But according to the ICAEW, things are not exactly looking […]

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With COVID cases returning in dangerously high numbers, ministers are considering cutting the waiting time for COVID-19 booster vaccines from 6 months to 5. What do the virologists have to say about this? Plus the latest on what a Plan B would look like. The Freelance Informer reports. The ONS’s “Coronavirus and the social impacts […]

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Authored by Vassilios Vassiliou, University of East Anglia; Ciaran Grafton-Clarke, University of East Anglia, and Ranu Baral, University of East Anglia Two weeks after your second COVID-19 vaccine dose, the protective effects of vaccination will be at their highest. At this point, you’re fully vaccinated. If you still get COVID-19 after this point, you’ve suffered […]

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Despite the number of daily cases falling in the UK over the past week, doctors are yet to see any reduction in the number of COVID patients admitted to hospital, writes Dr Richard Cree, an intensive care consultant at the James Cook University Hospital in Middlesborough. Cree has noted in his blog that 95% of […]

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4.2 million self-employed workers do not qualify for SSP The NHS Track & Trace “pingdemic” has dominated the UK news headlines over the past two weeks. The Freelance Informer reports on the latest statutory sick pay entitlements of contractors, freelancers and sole traders and the latest list of industries that are exempt from self-isolation. The […]

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The Freelance Informer highlights what the daily contact testing pilot is, how it works and why some may be chosen to take part as the number of COVID cases will rise this August and September despite double vaccinations. Following the announcement that the UK health secretary Sajid Javid had tested positive for Covid-19, the Prime […]

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As we get older the risk of dying from COVID doubles every seven years. How do our chances change once we are fully vaccinated from COVID yet new variants emerge? Christian Yates, a Senior Lecturer in Mathematical Biology, University of Bath explains this and more. Christian Yates, University of Bath More vaccinated people are dying […]

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🧳SPECIAL TRAVEL REPORT For the first time since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic, more US travellers are heading to Europe than any other destination. But depending on individual US state COVID regulations, British travellers and their fellow Europeans may not be as welcomed to US borders. Plus the latest green list countries and quarantine […]

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From BBC host Andrew Marr to neighbours, friends and colleagues, people are catching COVID after double vaccinations. Some are bed-bound for a few days. Some are losing their lives. Medical experts comment on the latest developments on new variant infections post-double vaccination and the rise in cases during crowd gatherings during the Euros. Statutory Sick […]

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