Spending Cuts Check: special report

Thousands more civil servants are set to lose their jobs at the Ministry of Defence in a second wave of cuts that will reduce its workforce by 40 per cent.

Public sector workers have reacted angrily to having to pay more in pension contributions from April 2012. But a pensions expert tells Channel 4 News they still have a generous deal.

A top-level leak reveals deep concerns over Treasury plans to limit total household benefits to £500 a week. Ministers fear the move could force tens of thousands of people out of their homes.

Hundreds of thousands of teachers and civil servants walkout in a 24 hour strike in a bitter row over pension reform. Join the Channel 4 News live blog for the latest news and have your say.

With the Education Secretary attacking Thursday’s teachers’ walkout as “unnecessary and disruptive”, the Prime Minister hails the proposed pensions reforms as fair for employees and taxpayers.

A strike by up to 750,000 public sector workers is set to go ahead after talks failed to end a bitter dispute over plans to reform pensions.

As public sector workers prepare for walkouts across the country on 30 June, Education Secretary Michael Gove warns that teachers risk losing public respect if they engage in “militancy”.

The Government says it intends to press ahead with its timetable to make women wait longer before collecting state pensions, despite the threat of a backbench revolt.

Shadow chancellor Ed Balls has urged trade unions not to fall into the Government’s “trap” of calling mass strikes in opposition to planned public sector pension reforms.

Channel 4 News maps the increasing price of university tuition fees amid changes to government funding. Use the slider to change the cost, navigate the map and click on the icons to find out more.

Business Secretary Vince Cable is booed at the GMB’s annual conference as he warns the Government will clamp down if strikes threaten to affect the economy.

The Business Secretary Vince Cable tells unions that if public sector strike action threatens the economy, the Government will look at changing strike laws.

Police officers were justified in pulling a protester from his wheelchair and “inadvertently” hitting him with a baton at the student fees demonstrations, an inquiry has found.

Every English university has applied to charge at least £6,000 tuition fees, as Channel 4 News learns only eight staff will police whether they are also improving access to justify their charges.

As the deadline arrives for universities to tell the Office for Fair Access what tuition fees they aim to charge, a Channel 4 News map shows that the majority are looking at the maximum of £9,000.