When the Government launched the Welfare Reform Bill in February 2010, it was heralded as the biggest shake-up of a welfare system since the New Deal was first introduced in the United States 60 years ...

Several charities that have closed in recent months believe a government work scheme is partly to blame for their demise, a BBC investigation has found. The Work Programme makes payments to ...

A former employee of three separate Work Programme providers describes how staff members were compelled to increase sanctions in order to hit financial targets. By Philip Hegarty From 2011, at the ...

Buckinghamshire Council has secured nearly £7 million in Government funding for its Connect to Work programme, launching in ...

Jean-Claude Juncker, the president of the European Commission, and Frans Timmermans, first vice-president of the Commission, ruffled feathers at the European Parliament in Strasbourg today (16 ...

Standby for data which will show that the government's work programme is, well, not working. One senior Whitehall figure described it to me as a "failure" The work programme was part of what ministers ...