Latest Articles By Simon Collyer

Unhappy with the services or your local council? The Local Government & Social Care Ombudsman have launced a new video explaining the process.     Anybody can complains. The service is free. You can complain on somebody’s behalf bu...

The U.S. Department of Labor has announced major milestones in the continuing effort to expand apprenticeships in the United States. This morning, a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) was made public that would establish a process for the U.S. Depa...

Yesterday marked the fourth annual UK Employability Day and Waltham Forest College joins a host of organisations to emphasise the challenges surrounding employability in the UK. Employability Day is the UK’s largest celebration for organisations supp...

Today, a report by the TUC and the University of Hertfordshire has revealed that the British gig economy has more than doubled in the past three years and now accounts for nearly 5 million workers. In 2016, it was found that one in 20 working ad...

Bean counters at the DWP will not welcome this report from the National Audit Office. Overpayment of Universal Credit is expected to go up.  Benefit overpayments and underpayments are at their highest levels since 2005-6, when the Department for...

The UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, will present his final report on the United Kingdom to the UN Human Rights Council in Geneva on Friday June 28. The UK government will formally respond, and other country m...

Room share platform, Ideal Flatmate, has looked at how you can cut your rent in half by moving no more than five stops along each of the London Underground lines.   Check out this infographic below:       ABC Comment, have your sa...

A job fair for residents looking to get back to work, progress their career or become self-employed is returning to Havant. Your Pathway to Employment, organised by Radian, Havant Borough Council and the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP),&n...

The UK government Post Office Minister is expected to appear at the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) Committee today (Tuesday). According to the National Federation of Sub-Postmasters. nearly 2,500 Post Offices are threatened to close...

At the ABC we champion womens rights. This speech by Lady Hale, President of the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom should we hope, interest our female audience.  2019 marks centenary of the Sex Disqualification (Removal) Act 1919, which p...