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Inquiry exposes failings in employment schemes

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A target-driven culture is encouraging welfare to work providers to cream off those easiest to get into jobs and ‘park’ harder to help candidates by offering the bare minimum support, an investigation by MPs has found.

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Thu 18th March 2010

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Absorb DCLG into devolution department, says report

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A ‘department for devolved government’ should be created to push through devolution and release greater freedoms at the local level.

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Thu 18th March 2010

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Bura sets out the six principles of regeneration

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A test for regeneration policies, unveiled by the British Urban Regeneration Association (Bura), will help ensure initiatives deliver real benefits for communities in tougher economic times.

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Thu 18th March 2010

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Skills audit provides ‘wake-up call’

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The UK’s growth in highly skilled jobs is one of the lowest in the developed world, according to the first skills audit.

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Thu 18th March 2010

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On the move: new boss for HMR team

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Sheila Tolley has been made interim director of housing market renewal pathfinder Bridging Newcastle-Gateshead. She joins from Home Group where she was an executive director and replaces Anne Mulroy, who is joining the Homes and Communities Agency as head of area south in the northeast.

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Thu 18th March 2010

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