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Fair work will be at the heart of the SNP’s drive to help more young people into work, as figures show that youth employment in Scotland is higher than in the rest of the UK.   Youth unemployment is at its lowest level since 2001 and is co...

Angus Housing Association director, Bruce Forbes, has accused a Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) spokesperson of “peddling lies and deliberately misleading the public” to justify the Westminster government’s “b...

Daniel Blake, Ken Loach's gritty drama about the British welfare system, will compete with glittery Hollywood musical La La Land for best film, alongside American coming-of-age story Moonlight, sci-fi movie Arrival and melancholy...

As the current centre-right government cuts back on university funding, many academic research groups have been forced to look beyond Finland's borders for project funding. For example, experts in the fields of bioscience, psychology and statistics h...

DBEIS has issued 60 penalty notices to employers for failing to comply with tribunal orders.  A new financial penalty scheme came into force on 6 April 2016, the aim of which is to deter non-payment of tribunal awards and Acas conciliated settl...

SNP MP Corri Wilson has called on the UK Government to clarify whether a mobility car scheme for people with disabilities is to be extended after a Department for Work and Pensions Minister announced the move during a Westminster debate but has since...

Negative portrayals of benefits recipients can be widely seen in the media, yet new research carried out at Teesside University and funded by the Joseph Rowntree Foundation calls these into question. Kayleigh Garthwaite argues that the &lsq...

An investigation is to be carried out into why people with cancer and other serious health problems are being unfairly denied disability benefits. It follows concerns that increasing numbers of people in Stoke-on-Trent are having their ...

An experienced benefits adviser has accused the Department for Work and Pensions of short-changing "people who are the worst off in our society" Severely disabled people in Reading are being "systematically short-changed" by the Department...

From 10am tomorrow there is a jobs fair at New Walk jobcentre, please feel free to call in and speak to employers and support organisations.