Department for Work and Pensions news

The British Government is recruiting a new dedicated countryside and heritage disability champion, whose role will be to focus on improving disabled access to the ... More

Not-for-profit health body ukactive has launched a new scholarship initiative to fast-track talented disabled people into senior leadership positions across the physical activity sector. The ... More

Former tourism minister John Penrose has called for VisitEngland to become an independent organisation, in line with the tourism bodies of the other home nations. ... More

Nearly 70 per cent of Britons feel attitudes towards disabled people have improved since the London 2012 Paralympic Games. The figure comes from the Department ... More

Image: Maria Miller is the new culture secretary Maria Miller has said she is "delighted" to have been appointed to succeed Jeremy Hunt as culture ... More

The decision to end the Future Jobs Fund (FJF) a year early would create a gap in support for unemployed young people, according to a ... More

The government has earmarked £1m for a scheme that aims to empower older people to keep physically active. Community groups in 30 areas across the ... More

A new six-month programme has been launched as part of the Transforming a Generation (TAG) scheme to create more than 1,000 new jobs within the ... More

Culture secretary Ben Bradshaw has announced that £5m will be invested in a range of projects to create more than 600 new jobs in the ... More

A new campaign launched by Prime Minister Gordon Brown - Backing Young Britain - has called on the hospitality and tourism industries to offer more ... More

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS) has given all English local authorities a fresh chance to take advantage of the government's £140m free ... More

The UK government has officially launched its two-year, £140m, Swim4Free initiative - which will see free swimming offered to those aged under 16 or over ... More

The Personal Accounts Delivery Authority (PADA) is a non-departmental public body (NDPB) accountable to Parliament and reporting, through a Board, to the Secretary of State ... More

The DCMS has rebutted claims made by Roger Millward, chief executive of the Swimming Teachers' Association (STA), that suggested the government's free swimming scheme would ... More

The government have set out further details of the plan to make swimming free for all by 2012. Arrangements for the £140m scheme have been ... More

The government has earmarked £140m towards providing free swimming for all at the country’s 1,600 public pools by the 2012 Olympics, part of a legacy ... More

JD Wetherspoon – which employs more than 16,000 staff in its UK properties – has become the first pub company to be recognised for employing ... More