Public service leaders have expressed dismay over the Queen’s Speech failure to address public sector issues including pay, social care and local government funding.
A draft version of Labour’s manifesto has leaked revealing the party’s plans to end the public sector pay cap, build 100,000 council homes and nationalise the railways.
Facts and figures from the May edition of Public Finance magazine on unemployment trends, Scottish attitudes to independence and the ever-increasing retirement age
The new agency set up to run devolved benefits in Scotland will not follow the example set by Whitehall’s Department of Work and Pensions in using private companies to assess the entitlement of...
The contract between HM Revenue & Customs and business services firm Concentrix to investigate tax credit awards was a “catastrophic failure” and lessons need to be learned, MPs on...
Reforms that will restrict universal credit benefits to the first two children in a family could see 200,000 children dip below the poverty line, according to a study released today.
The government’s flagship welfare-to-work scheme is closing next month having helped 840,000 jobseekers find work, says the body representing the employment support sector.
Household income in the UK will continue to stagnate over the next two years, while child poverty and inequality is set to grow, the Institute for Fiscal Studies has predicted.
The practice of requiring prospective employees to disclose criminal records in the initial stage of public sector job applications could soon end, the government has indicated.
The unemployment rate remained at an 11-year low for the three months to November last year, latest figures from the Office for National Statistics have shown.
The company contracted by HMRC to help reduce fraud and error in tax credits claims, Concentrix, regularly failed to meet its performance targets, according to an investigation by the National Audit...
The Scottish Government has announced the first changes to its benefits regime under the welfare powers devolved by last year’s Scotland Act – but was criticised by its opponents for not...
The proportion of low-paid men working part time has quadrupled over the past 20 years, according to research published today by the Institute for Fiscal Studies.
The government is not doing enough to measure the impact of sanctions on people who are drawing benefits or on wider society, according to the National Audit Office.
MPs have warned that the government’s planned Work and Health Programme may be “front loaded for failure” due to the requirements being placed on jobcentre staff.
