Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

24 per cent of all people in Wales were living in relative income poverty between 2014-15 and 2016-17 (i.e. the financial year ending March 2015 and the financial year ending March 2017). This is up from 23 per cent between 2013-14 and 2015-16, the r...

The powerful trade union Unite’s annual policy conference kicks off today, with delegates due to hold debates on keeping Britain in the single market and on holding a second EU referendum. Anti-Brexit campaigners are wisely targeting Jeremy Cor...

The Live Vacancy event continues to grow as hundreds of youngsters aged between 16 and 24 attended an event last week to explore employment and training opportunities. The event is the third of its kind with the one hosted in March attracting more th...

Ann Black is a member of the British Labour Party's National Executive Committee (NEC), and she was  Chair of the Labour Party from September 2009 to September 2010, and is part of the Grassroots Alliance group...

We were at Housing 2018 this week in a very sunny and smoky Manchester due to the nearby fires on the moors. We will be doing a round up of some of the more interesting ideas we came across, but after a lengthy trip up and back we are feeling a littl...

Responding to the comments from Caral Ni Chuilin tonight after the SDLP pointed out the fact that £35m that should be going to tackle working poverty can’t be allocated because there is no local Minister in place, SDLP Deputy Leader Nicho...

In 2017, in the US 18.7 percent of persons with a disability were employed, compared with 65.7 percent of those with no disability. The unemployment rate for persons with a disability was 9.2 percent, compared with 4.2 percent for those with no disab...

WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor today announced the launch of Apprenticeship.gov. Apprenticeship.gov delivers on the Task Force on Apprenticeship Expansion's recommendation to "compile apprenticeship information in a sin...

M&S has been slammed for launching a clothing line for disabled children despite having no toilets or changing rooms for severely disabled shoppers - in ANY stores. Blogger Laura Moore, 41, has been begging the retail giant to install 'changing...

New analysis shows that over a quarter of a million people have started a Modern Apprenticeship since the SNP came to office in 2007.   Analysis of new Skills Development Scotland figures shows that 27,145 people started Modern Apprentices...