Cutting benefits to improve childcare?
John Hutton, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, has put forward suggestions for a shake up to the benefits system with the intention of persuading more lone parents to seek work earlier than they are currently.
Britain’s present system sees our nation with the lowest employment rate amongst lone parents in Europe, as well as […]
Rewards for drug addicts.
An NHS watchdog, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), which extols advice of NHS treatments and practices, last week made the proposal that addicts should be given vouchers if urine tests show they have not taken drugs while undergoing remedial treatment(s), the rewards increasing in value the longer addicts stay free of […]
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