Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

According to the Huffington Post a Conservative MP has come under attack for dismissing director Ken Loach’s BAFTA speech as “drivel”. Loach, the Jeremy Corbyn supporting film maker, condemned the government for closing do...

‘Fuller Working Lives: a partnership approach’ explains how as the population ages, employers need to draw on the skills and experience of older workers to avoid loss of labour. It also explains how working longer can improve the health a...

Work and Pensions Committee: Lord Freud, the architect of the Universal Credit, a major welfare reform, will appear before the Committee tomorrow, Wednesday 8 February, at 0930 in Wilson Room, Portcullis House. Channel 4 News is expected to run a sto...

The Work and Pensions Committee has published HMRC’s response to its report on Concentrix. The Committee was highly critical of both HMRC and its contractor for failings that left thousands of people, many of whom were vulnerable, without benef...

A Colchester Job Fair is being held Wednesday 15th February. Check it out.

HMRC scrapped its deal with Concentrix the Company, which was employed to cut fraud and error from the tax credit system, after it was the subject of a series of criticisms, including from the Work and Pensions Committee. Of the 59,000 times Concentr...

House of Commons Work and Pensions Committee On Monday the Committee hears the first evidence in its inquiry into self-employment and the gig economy: from the perspective of current and former Uber, Hermes and Deliveroo couriers and drivers, wh...

Children’s Commissioner and Church of Scotland join children’s charities, unions and anti-poverty groups in call for £5 child benefit ‘top up’ to help end child poverty Leading voices from Scottish civil society came tog...

Eurozone inflation nears ECB’s target: The headline figure reached 1.8 percent in January, however core inflation remained muted. Stripping out volatile elements such as energy and food, eurozone inflation stood steady at 0.9 percent.” Na...

Plans to drastically cut the number of Jobcentres across the UK should be immediately halted until a full equality impact assessment has been completed for every site affected, the Scottish National Party has said. Ronnie Cowan MP, who represents Inv...