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David Cameron: Tories are best party to tackle Poverty
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Eco-Actif Services
Eco-Actif
Services is a Community Interest Company (CIC) offering practical
help and support for economically inactive people including
ex-offenders, people recovering from substance and alcohol misuse
and lone parents.
They run a number of successful and innovative programmes
tackling the problems connected with long term unemployment and
social exclusion. Below is a short video introducing what they
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Dynamic Benefts
www.centreforsocialjustice.org.uk/publications
Plans to move 600,000 households off welfare and into work will be unveiled today (September 16) in a major new report from the think-tank set up by the former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith.
The 370-page report, the most far-reaching review of the welfare system in 60 years, estimates that the shake-up will boost the incomes of the lowest paid by nearly £5 billion.
In the News!
Paul Kendall looks at the underperformance of Britain's Job Centres, where many unemployed feel let down and discouraged. Britain, he argues, has developed a culture of dependency on benefits that is trapping people in poverty.
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In the News!
Tories Tackle Social Mobility –
NewMajority.com –
10/7/09
Former Conservative leader Iain Duncan Smith has a solution to
the Tories’ lack of electoral victory, it is argued on
NewMajority.com. As the founder of the Centre for Social Justice,
Iain Duncan Smith has formulated a notion of “compassionate
conservatism” that Cameron looks to use as part of his election
campaign. Smith argues that the largest impediment to Tory
success is that voters don’t see Conservatives as “caring”.
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