A new community programme is helping North East residents get into work and improve their long-term job prospects. The JobsPlus pilot scheme, now running in Stockton and other areas across England, is ...

Inspectors tasked with investigating breaches of employment rules have been adopting a lenient approach when dealing with certain infringements, a National Audit Office investigation found. JobsPlus ...

Auditor General's report puts Jobsplus' enforcement unit under the spotlight Jobsplus’ enforcement powers are held back by a lack of investigators and a “lax attitude towards compliance”, the Auditor ...

Stockton’s JobsPlus is a pilot scheme with caseworkers who connect individual people with potential jobs, providing direct financial help where necessary “We’ve had quite a few people on the estate ...

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