19th May

HEADLINES

Panorama covers welfare-to-work in 'Britain on the Sick' at 8.30pm, BBC1 tonight. Here's a lead-in article on the BBC News website that asks the simple question, how do you get people into work in areas with no jobs? - http://snipurl.com/29l88

The government's gone to consultation on a new Welfare Reform bill as part of its legislative programme, but details are a bit sketchy right now - http://snipurl.com/29l89

Another consultation, this time on Lone Parent regulations, including taking available childcare into account during benefit decisions and lowering the age of child-based Income Support from 12 to 7 - http://snipurl.com/29l8a

OTHER NEWS

Following up last week's reports on parents and work, an article decrying the 'Couples Penalty' - http://snipurl.com/29l8b

The football-refereeing, mobility allowance claiming mayor gets a suspended sentence - http://snipurl.com/29l8c

Wondering what to do with your homeless customers? Right Deal for Homeless People is a new delivery model that claims to provide the answer - http://snipurl.com/29l8d

Regen magazine have put together a directory of 80 regeneration funding sources across the UK - http://snipurl.com/29l8e

MORE DWP REPORTS

DWP report on social housing and worklessness. Key finding is that social housing doesn't affect worklessness, but complex benefits system and poor government services do! - http://snipurl.com/29l8f

Latest benefit fraud and error report shows no significant change on last year - http://snipurl.com/29l8g (pdf)

Latest employment figures still rosy - http://snipurl.com/29l8h

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