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DWP to hire 500 new Access to Work case workers – but will it save the scheme?

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I’m an artist who used to be homeless. Here are five things I wish I’d known before I started

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Unpaid carers of parents with dementia are propping up the NHS and social care system

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Thousands of people face modern slavery in the UK. Why do we hear so few of their stories?

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Poverty is a growth industry. Starmer has not seemed to grasp this nettle
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