Single Work Programme Articles

Young people have been hit hard by this government. Educational maintenance allowance has been scrapped as tuition fees have trebled. The Future Jobs Fund has been cancelled as career advice services are slashed. Nearly one million young people are out of work with...

I was pleased to see in Ed Miliband’s speech last week the announcement that Labour would devolve the spending on back-to-work schemes to local councils. This is something London Councils, which represents the capital’s boroughs, has long been arguing for and we will...

Last week justice secretary Chris Grayling focused in on the high levels of reoffending by those leaving prison and confirmed its full steam ahead for rehabilitating offenders through a payment by results approach. On one thing he is right – we need to do more to...

Labour will not win the 2015 general election unless we are seen by the majority of British people to be the party of responsible welfare. Whether we like it or not, in 2010, too many people, particularly skilled working-class voters felt that Labour had lost its way...