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by Daniel on 13 Oct, 2008 in
The latest unemployment figures have been released, and show around 940,000 unemployed people, up from 908,000 last month.
Most current predictions say that unemployment will hit 1 million by Christmas, and potentially reach 2 million at some point thereafter. This is substantially less than the 3 million unemployed in the 1980s recession, but is still worse than many UK workers have faced in their career to date.
by Daniel on 2 Oct, 2008 in
With the economy heading downhill rapidly, and JSA claimant numbers rising at a rate of knots, what will the impact on providers be? Will there be a huge bump in the number of customers, or will the difficult job market make it tougher to get people into work? Have you delivered job programmes in a recession before?
