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Crisis names areas hardest hit by housing cuts

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Birmingham, Leeds and Liverpool have topped a list of local authorities likely to suffer the biggest impact of the government’s housing benefit cuts, according to Crisis.

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Thu 12th August 2010

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First wave of ‘trailblazing’ mutuals announced

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A social enterprise in Mansfield is to deliver housing support services to vulnerable people, and teaching and administrative staff will set up a trust to run a Cumbrian college after the government gave the green light to the first round of Pathfinder mutuals projects.

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Thu 12th August 2010

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From fire station to hub for the homeless

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A former Oxford fire station is set to become a new centre for homeless charity Crisis after being awarded funding from the government’s Places of Change programme.

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Wed 4th August 2010

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Joined-up approach to Neets will pay dividends

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Councils should use their local economic assessments to harness efforts aimed at reducing long-term youth unemployment, according to the public spending watchdog.

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Wed 7th July 2010

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Housing benefit shake-up risks hike in poverty

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Changes to housing benefit could have serious long-term implications, even creating concentrations of extreme poverty in urban areas similar to those at the centre of social unrest in France five years ago.

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Fri 2nd July 2010

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