Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Benefit claimants are being driven into destitution after facing large unexpected deductions from their Universal Credit payments, the government has been warned. Frank Field MP Chair of the DWP Select Committee has been speaking out in the iPap...

New Personal Independence Payment (PIP) videos The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has launched 5 videos to help people who are claiming, or are about to claim, PIP. The videos are also available with British Sign Language. The PIP videos prov...

The find a job service, which lets people search and apply for full or part-time jobs in Great Britain, replaced Universal Jobmatch on 14 May 2018. The service offers jobseekers and employers a simpler and more streamlined way to log in and access th...

Bilingual Jobs in Business and Customer Support Sectors   ‘Your Language – Our Business – Ireland’  The European Employment Service of the Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection (EURES Ireland), with...

Twenty leading companies help young people on their career path.   The Department of Employment Affairs and Social Protection, in collaboration with Efficient Consumer Approach Ireland (ECR), is delighted to announce the launch of the fifth annu...

According to the SNP the minister responsible for closing Remploy factories and then privatising the service is overseeing a new threat to disabled workers – with a scheme supporting more than 600 disabled people in Scotland set to close. ...

Increasing numbers of local authorities are defying government guidance and criminalizing people for being homeless, a Guardian investigation says. Growing numbers of vulnerable homeless people are being fined, given criminal convictions and even imp...

ISMA’s Annual Conference Growth 2018 Will be Held on Friday 9th November at The Royal Over-Seas League, 5 Park Place, St James's, London SW1A 1LR Our conference this year will be the concluding highlight of the first-ev...

Young people in East Hampshire are to be offered skilled jobs on Whitehill & Bordon’s construction projects in a unique deal with developers. Apprentices will be given the construction skills they need to help build their home town’s...

Fancy a job in gold mining? The Canadian mining company Dalradian is aiming to create hundreds of jobs at a gold mine near Gortin in Co Tyrone. It's a billion-dollar project, but first it has to get planning permission. However if it does get the gre...