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Apprenticeships – not dole

What is really needed is a localised approach to developing and embedding apprenticeships into the ...

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Will the Green Deal leave the fuel poor out in the cold?

The fuel poor tend to underheat their homes. This is a critical issue in meeting ...

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Shapps’ fiddling won’t solve the real crisis

Just where are these areas of underemployment and high council house numbers that people can ...

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Single or duplicitous Work Programme?

My views seem to resonate to some degree with Sir Stephen Bubb, no less, who ...

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Keeping sight of the vision

As the coalition government struggles to define localism and Big Society is there a danger ...

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Open door policy

With such examples of clear methods of how plurality of public service can lead to ...

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We need to retune the economy to tackle youth unemployment

It’s not about keeping existing workers in work or generating more ‘old’ jobs – it’s ...

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Opportunity knocks, but major challenges lie ahead

We now know who will lead the Work Programme. Matthew Jackson and Gareth Brown examine ...

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Upwardly mobile?

How far will fairness go in tackling social mobility? It’ll pull up short in the ...

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All remaining unequal

The government now prefers to talk of fairness rather than equality. So where does that ...