Almost one in five disabled workers have had a job offer withdrawn because of their health condition, a study suggests. Research by the disability charity Leonard Cheshire indicated that most
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Scottish councils’ allocations in the draft budget put at risk the delivery of essential services next year, according to local government body Cosla. Total funding for both the revenue and
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Two thirds of ex-prisoners with conflict-related convictions are still unemployed 20 years after the Good Friday Agreement, an academic said. Their family members have also been black-listed by some employers
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Labour’s next manifesto could include radical plans for a universal basic income (UBI), John McDonnell said. The shadow chancellor said the policy, which replaces means-tested benefits with a flat rate
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MPs have hit out at the Government for “barely paying lip service” to the needs of millions of carers after ministers rejected calls for stronger support to help them stay
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Esther McVey has been forced to issue an embarrassing apology to MPs after a public row with Whitehall’s spending watchdog. The Work and Pensions Secretary said she had “inadvertently misled”
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Mandatory job seeking requirements for lone parents claiming benefits negatively affects mental health, researchers have found. Under the lone parent obligations rule, single parents must seek work as a condition
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The Conservatives’ leader in the Welsh Assembly has quit the post after seven years following a spat over the future for jobs in Wales after Brexit. Andrew RT Davies said
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Half of Scots believe that poorer health is a result of an unjust society, according to findings published by the Scottish Centre for Social Research. The report ‘Scottish Social Attitudes
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A so-called “yellow card” system of benefit sanctions has been dropped by the Government after research suggested it was not worth the extra time and cost. Ministers have instead said
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