The long-term unemployed people will have their benefits cut unless they visit a job centre every day, work for free or undertake training, under new rules which have now come into effect. The BBC reports that the government’s Help to Work scheme will apply to anyone who has not found a job after two years on the existing Work Programme scheme.
Children are wearing nappies in class after the age of five in hundreds of schools a study has found. A survey by the National Foundation for Educational Research, commissioned by Sky News, found that almost one in 10 head teachers and senior staff who responded said that in the past year a child aged between five and seven had worn a nappy to school.
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