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  • Troubled families: Wakefield

    Progress in Wakefield helping troubled families turn their lives around.

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  • Prime Minister welcomes troubled families progress

    PM welcomes the news that 40,000 families have been turned around by this innovative programme, with results doubling in the last 6 months.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Troubled families: Leicestershire

    Progress in Leicestershire helping troubled families turn their lives around.

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  • Troubled families: Stockton-on-Tees

    Progress in Stockton-on-Tees helping troubled families turn their lives around.

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  • Troubled families: Stockport

    Progress in Stockport helping troubled families turn their lives around.

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  • Universal Credit: First year of welfare transformation and north west next steps

    The expansion of the full Universal Credit benefit to the rest of the north west of England will start in June.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • British team selection begins for Invictus Games

    Prince Harry has met with wounded, injured and sick service personnel as they begin their journey to the Invictus Games.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • D-Day 70th anniversary commemorations

    On 6 June this year the United Kingdom, along with its friends and allies, will commemorate the 70th anniversary of the D-Day landings.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New contract demanding more from jobseekers in place across Britain

    635,000 claimants have signed new agreements setting out what they will do to find work in return for their benefits.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New support to give homeless people ‘basic building blocks’ for work

    Pilot scheme to give the most vulnerable homeless people the right skills and training to get into work.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Unemployment drops below 7%

    Unemployment has dropped below 7% for the first time since the recession and employment has seen the biggest annual jump in a generation.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Defence Secretary visits new veterans' housing development in Scotland

    Armed forces veterans will benefit from a new £6.7 million housing development in Glasgow.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • D-Day veteran dusts off top-secret equipment

    An RAF veteran has visited Bletchley Park to see the top-secret kit he used to direct aircraft over Normandy following the D-Day landings.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Red social de salud más importante de Europa llega a Chile

    Con sede principal en Londres, HealthUnlocked ya cuenta con miles de usuarios en Chile y funciona en inglés, español y portugués.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Jobseeking rise: benefit cap is taking effect

    Nearly half (45%) of those affected by the benefit cap say that they plan to look for work as a result.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New facilities for Wattisham military families

    Families at the Army’s main operating base for its Apache helicopters have received a boost with the delivery of a new childcare centre

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  • Further curbs to migrant access to benefits announced

    Government to extend new rules limiting migrant access to out-of-work benefits to Child Benefit and Child Tax Credit. Migrants will face tougher scrutiny of their English skills in return for benefits.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Jobs and welfare reform: getting Britain working

    Creating conditions for businesses to grow, resulting in jobs, and welfare reform to get people into work.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • New measures to protect the integrity of the benefits system

    The government has announced new rules to deter claimants from committing benefit fraud, and ensure stolen money is returned.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government

  • Universal Credit starts in Wales

    New jobseekers in Shotton can claim Universal Credit from 7 April 2014 as the new benefit rolls out.

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    First published during the 2010 to 2015 Conservative and Liberal Democrat coalition government