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UNEMPLOYMENT FEARS - Amid mounting concern the that UK will crash out of the European Union without a Brexit deal, the country’s leading campaigning union, Unite, is to reconvene with cabinet minister Michael Gove today (Wednesday 9 October) to warn...

APPRENTICESHIP OPPORTUNTITES - Jobs Growth Wales is a programme designed to get unemployed 16-24 year olds living in Wales into employment for six months in a job paying at least the National Minimum Wage. The first Jobs Growth Wales scheme star...

UNIVERSAL CREDIT - Social Welfare Training pointed out this useful information.  Universal Credit- Help Vulnerable Clients get Protection If a client is identified as having complex needs then the DWP should tailor or turn off their conditionali...

HELPING YOUNG PEOPLE - The Department for Communities (DfC) has launched the roll out of the Uniting Communities Through Sport and Creativity programme within the Castlederg area in County Tyrone.  The Programme is part of the Northern Ireland E...

HOLIDAYS ABROAD - We have just come across a claimant given the wrong advice by his Work Coach. On Universal Credit you can go on holiday abroad for a month without having your benefits stopped.  The EU was meant to bring about freedom of moveme...

GETTING MOBILE - The Kickstart (Wheels to Work) Scheme is a vehicle loan scheme which aims to help people aged 18 years or older living in rural areas get to work or training.  You can borrow and have the...

HOUSING CRISIS - The benefit freeze is pushing low income families to the brink, with more than nine in ten homes for private rent (94%) too expensive for those on housing benefit. Two thirds of these families (65%) are in work. Research by the Natio...

GLOBAL JOB CUTS - There has been extensive media speculation today (Monday 7 October) that the international bank HSBC is to cut a further 10,000 job worldwide. Interim Chief Executive Officer Noel Quinn seeks to reduce costs, says a report by Financ...

JOB FAIR - Tendring Jobs & Careers Fair will be held on Tuesday 1st October, from 10:00am- 4:00pm at the Princes Theatre, Town Hall, Clacton on Sea. Hundreds of jobs will be available and there will be approx. 55 national and local employers...

Homelessness - Liberal Democrat MP Layla Moran has renewed her call for the Vagrancy Act to be scrapped following the publication of new ONS statistics revealing a rise in the deaths of homeless people in 2018. The ONS data shows that there...