Councils are increasingly expected to help tenants find work. Rosie Niven finds out how town hall bureaucrats are preparing to beat the poverty trap

In the government’s attack on worklessness, local authorities have been placed on the front line to confront an aggressive and tenacious opponent.

More than half of working age social tenants are out of work, with the figure rising to 80% for people under 25 years of age.

And recent figures show that the proportion of long-term worklessness among social housing residents has increased by almost 20% over the past 27 years.

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