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The Australian Fabians have published some interesting videos. Having a job is the traditional entry point into adult social life. What you do so frequently defines who you are that they are hard to separate. Work and a meaningful life are almost ine...

UK government “not doing enough” to find out impact of benefit sanctions. DIRECTOR KEN LOACH BACKS MHAIRI BLACK’S PRIVATE MEMBER’S BILL The Scottish National Party has today repeated calls for a full and independent review of...

ONS Figures just released show: A newborn baby boy could expect to live 79.2 years and a newborn baby girl 82.9 years if mortality rates remain the same as they were in the UK in 2013 to 2015 throughout their lives. Life expectancy for the UK is high...

Plaid Cymru’s Leader has put the Welsh Government under pressure for failing to ban letting agent fees. The Rhondda AM said during First Minister’s Questions that unless action is taken, Wales will be left trailing Scotland and England in...

As Wales continues to show vacancy rates higher than the rest of the UK and footfall in Welsh town centres continue to fall, Plaid Cymru will use a Senedd debate to call on the Labour Welsh Government to take swift action to help small businesses on...

Fancy a career in Professional Football?  The first ever Global Employment Report by professional footballers’ union FIFPro was just released. Polish MEP Bogdan Wenta, a former Olympic handball star, is participating. Did you know? Nearly...

Turn2Us have produced this useful list of benefit changes During 2017 Tax Free Childcare Tax Free Childcare is to be introduced as a replacement for employer supported childcare (childcare vouchers). The government will contribute up to 20% of t...

NHS services are currently facing unprecedented growth in demand, with a 4.1% year-on-year rise in A&E admissions and 34.8% increase in bed days lost due to delayed transfers of care, compared to halfway through last year. Ambulance services have...

Bloomberg’s Laura Hurst and Thomas Penny report: “The proposals, which will be published for consultation on Tuesday, will seek to set up staff scrutiny committees, force firms to publish pay ratios between chief executive officers and av...

The Paris-based club of rich countries where 25 of its 35 members hail from Europe has updated its income distribution database: “Since 2010, the year GDP and employment resumed growing in the OECD area, the economic recovery has gradually led...