The latest issue of PublicEye, Prospect's newsletter for members in the civil service, has been published to coincide with their sector conference in Bristol tomorrow (17 June).

More than 140 delegates are gathering at one of the most challenging political and economic times in decades, to debate key issues such as pay and pensions.

Articles include:

• public service pensions - education unions NUT and ATL, alongside PCS, have balloted in favour of strike action on June 30. Prospect is pressing for a framework agreement in the critical TUC talks on which to base scheme specific negotiations for the civil service
• CPI uprating of pensions - joint unions' legal challenge
• Public Accounts Committee - case for changing public service pensions is unproven
• redundancy changes - ironing out anomalies
• mutuals - one law for MyCSP, another for Audit Commission
• forensic science - what future?
• human resources - next steps
• job losses round-up.

Read the latest issue here.