Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

The UK's net public sector borrowing is up £7.4bn for the financial year, totalling over £40bn for April to September. The country's public debt grew as an absolute figure, but fell by 1.2 per cent as a proportion of GDP. John Hawksworth from PwC com...

JOB FAIR -The Folkestone Job Fair took place in the Victorian genteel pile, the Grand Hotel that majestically overlooks the English Channel. The job fair was run by JobsinKent, who also run JobsinEssex, JobsinSurrey and JobsinSussex. There was a broa...

JOBS - FareShare Forklift Truck Training places   FareShare are completing their John Lewis funded employability programme and have some places remaining for unemployed people to undertake accredited FLT training for counterbalance and...

 THIS WEDNESDAY - JobsInKent we have been invited to the at The Grand, The Leas, Folkestone, CT20 2XL, 10am - 3pm, 23rd October.  It's a great opportunity for you to meet, face to face, local employers who are recruiting, and also to connec...

DISABILITY SHOPPING - Purple Tuesday is designed to promote the improvement of the customer experience across retail and dining for people with disabilities. It will involve organisations of all sizes and from all sectors taking decisive, practi...

CHRISTMAS JOBS - DWP’s Find a job service enables employers to advertise jobs and jobseekers to view and apply for those jobs, with 1.2 million registered jobseekers making 40 million page visits each month. We are launching a campaign to highlight t...

CHRISTMAS PAYMENTS - The Department of Work and Pensions has announced when Universal Credit and other benefits will be paid. Money will be arriving earlier than expected. Those in receipt of Attendance Allowance, the state pension, Carer’s Allo...

A COUNCILLOR says “no-one is above the law” – including himself - after several local government in Tendring and Colchester figures failed to pay their council tax on time. This was according to a report collated by Newsquest’s Data Investigations Un...

NEW LAWS - The Minister for Employment Affairs and Social Protection, Regina Doherty, T.D., steered a Bill providing for a new social insurance scheme of Jobseeker’s Benefit for the Self-Employed (JBSE) through its final stages in the Dáil tonight. O...

SLEEP OUT - Following on from the success of 2017 and 2018, Social Bite’s Sleep in the Park goes global with major sleep out events taking place in 50 cities on one night, including Edinburgh, on Saturday 7th December. Edinburgh’s World’s Big Sleep O...