The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) set up the Restart scheme to help people made unemployed by the COVID-19 pandemic. The government announced that there would be a new large-scale provision for long-term unemployed people in the July 2020 Plan for Jobs and announced £2.9 billion of funding for the Restart scheme in the November 2020 Spending Review.
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Jan
Unlike many other comparable countries, the UK’s economic activity and employment rates are yet to recover from the Covid-19 pandemic.
Improvements in population health have stagnated in the UK – a trend that began before Covid-19 and accelerated during the pandemic, and poor health is undermining labour market outcomes and equity.
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Jan
Jan
Employees will be able to request flexible working from day one of their employment, under new government plans to make flexible working the default.
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Jan
Jan
A dyslexic store layout planner was dismissed and discriminated against when she was selected for a redundancy process based on her ability to communicate and express her thoughts in emails.
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Jan
Jan
The number of working-age people newly awarded disability benefits doubled between July 2021 and July 2022. This report investigates that increase
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Jan
Jan
This is a summary of the latest National Statistics on the outcomes of completed Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) Work Capability Assessments (WCA). The publication covers information on both initial and repeat ESA assessments in Great Britain.
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Jan
Jan
Work Capability Assessment outcomes, appeals and mandatory reconsiderations for Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) claims.
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Jan
Jan
Statistics on local authorities’ use of Discretionary Housing Payment funds.
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Jan
Jan
A benefit sanction – withdrawal of benefit or a reduction in the amount of benefit paid for a certain period – may be imposed if a claimant is deemed not to have complied with a work-related condition for receiving the benefit in question.
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Dec
Legal aid is fundamental to upholding the Rule of Law
Millions of us are reliant on a legal aid system that is chronically underfunded and understaffed – and it has been getting noticeably worse for years.