Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

It has been reported by the BBC that nearly a third of fit notes are for psychiatric problems. The data comes from NHS Digital, which has analysed fit notes from December 2014 to March 2017. The NHS, on its website page devoted to mental health issue...

End Hunger has been actively campaigning to make a difference on holiday hunger over the summer break, including a meeting at City Hall in London and activists sending over 150 postcards to MPs asking them to tackle holiday hunger. Next week there wi...

Universal basic income and the future of work was written for the TUC by the Fabian Society. It examines the arguments and evidence for and against Universal Basic Income (UBI) policies, concluding that there are as many potential problems as benefit...

The 2017 Macquarie Youth Index reveals that young people's happiness and wellbeing are at their lowest levels since the study was first commissioned in 2009. This report reveals that more than a quarter of young people do not feel in control of their...

Are you 18-30 and live near a train route to London? Areas include Colchester, Ipswich, Basildon, Southend, Rayleigh, Chelmsford, Rochford, Wickford, Stansted, Shenfield and Stratford. Looking to get a customer service job within the railway industry...

Judges in Strasbourg will today rule on the so-called Bărbulescu v. Romania case, in which a company fired an employee after monitoring his electronic communications. Expect 11 judgments today involving Turkey, Belgium and Montenegro. The case o...

A UN panel has slammed the UK for creating a “human catastrophe” for disabled people, and is “going backwards” in areas such as education, health, transport and social security. Following a major review, the Committee on the R...

Those seeking work, or keen to find out about career development opportunities, will have the chance to speak to employers and training providers directly at a series of jobs fairs in towns held across Breckland. The jobs fairs have been organised in...

For the period April to June 2017, there were 22.3 million people aged 16 to 64 (54.2%) living in working households, up 0.8 percentage points over the year. A further 14.7 million people (35.7%) were living in mixed households, down 0.6 percentage p...

The SNP’s Social Justice spokesperson has condemned the UK government’s Department for Work and Pensions (DWP), after Freedom of Information requests revealed that the department spent almost £40m actively fighting appeals made by s...