When Kim Woodward heard that her local job centre was closing its doors, at first she couldn’t believe it. “It was a massive shock, and a terrible blow for the community,” she says. As a recipient of ...

A council have criticised the UK government over plans to shut a job centre in Lanarkshire without consulting local bodies. Cambuslang Jobcentre is to close by January with customers and staff to be ...

Cambuslang job centre is to close by January with customers and staff to be transferred to the Rutherglen centre two miles away. Local MSP Clare Haughey says the decision is “outrageous” and has ...

Just when you thought we’d had enough stupidity from the government to last a lifetime comes another harebrained idea. Live in an area of high unemployment? You’ll soon be seeing walk-in vans parked ...

The Department for Work and Pensions has been told it needs to recruit 6,000 more work coaches. Senior union representatives have warned the Labour Party government that stigma around job centres ...

A Bournemouth man has been jailed after causing more than £2,500 worth of damage to Job Centre doors. Scott Sanders, 42, of Oxford Road, Bournemouth, appeared at Taunton Magistrates’ Court on ...

The government is helping to sustain and grow the 280,000-strong UK life sciences workforce by today (Tuesday 5 September) announcing £5.5 million to establish a Medicines Manufacturing Skills Centre ...

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Cambuslang Jobcentre is to close by January with customers and staff transferred to Rutherglen. A council have criticised the UK government over plans to shut a job centre in Lanarkshire without ...