Neurodivergent Jobs Report. Support by Need, Not Diagnosis
Only 34% of disabled people with autism were in work in 2024/25, compared with 55% of disabled people overall. An independent panel has now set out how support could change, and this article explains what it recommends and what the Government has already put in place.
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Disability & Welfare Policy
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Prison Leavers Face Restriction Zones, Pub Bans and Tagging From 1 October
Offenders leaving prison from 1 October 2026 can be confined to areas just a few miles wide, banned from pubs and football matches, and tagged by default. Here is what the new licence powers allow, what support victims now get, and why ministers say they are needed.
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Crime & Justice
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£190m Airbus Deal Puts More RAF A400M Atlas Aircraft in the Air
The RAF will have 13 fully mission capable A400M Atlas aircraft available every day by the end of 2027, up from 10, under a £190 million Airbus contract extension. The deal runs to April 2029 and sustains more than 350 UK jobs at RAF Brize Norton and across the supply chain.
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Defence & Armed Forces
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Pathways to Work Innovation Fund. £60m Open, Bids Close 26 Oct
A £60 million pot is now open to businesses, charities and public bodies with new ideas for getting disabled people and those with health conditions into work, and bids close on 26 October 2026.
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Disability & Welfare Policy
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£16m Legal Support Grant. Free Help With Eviction and Debt
Forty eight organisations across England and Wales will share £16 million to give free legal help to people facing eviction, problem debt and benefit disputes until March 2029. Here is who is delivering the advice, who it is aimed at and what the Ministry of Justice says it wants the money to achieve.
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Legal System & Courts
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Possession Claims Move Online, the New Court Service Live in Parts of England
Social landlords in the Bradford, Huddersfield and Wandsworth court areas began filing possession claims online at noon on 29 September, with Welsh community landlords following on 15 October. Here is how a claim now moves from screen to courtroom, what defendants can do, and which cases the new service leaves out.
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Legal System & Courts
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49 Arrests in Three Days as UK Cracks Down on Irish Border Smuggling
The Home Office has arrested 49 people in three days as part of a crackdown on Irish border smuggling gangs, with more than 100 arrests made since the election. The operation is part of Operation Comby, a multi agency effort targeting people who have passed illegally from Ireland to the UK.
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Border Security
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Great British Grid The New Public Body to Speed Up Grid Connections
A new publicly owned body will invest in Britain's electricity network for the first time, and Irish style self build reforms cut connection times there by up to 11 months. Here is what Great British Grid will do, what stays with Ofgem and NESO.
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Energy Infrastructure
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National Care Service, Free Personal Care Funded by Triple Lock Change
The Prime Minister has promised free personal care for older people, paid for by adjusting the Triple Lock, with savings put at £15 billion a year by the late 2030s. Here is what is fixed and the state of care the new service inherits.
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Social Care Policy
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Triple Lock Change From 2030. DWP Projects £50bn a Year Saving
DWP modelling projects the adjusted Triple Lock would cost £15 billion less than the current version in 2039 to 2040 and £50 billion less by 2049 to 2050, while pensioner poverty falls from around 14% to 8%. What changes in April 2030, how the figures were produced and why the department says they are not forecasts.
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Welfare & Social Security
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Government Creates Insourcing Unit and Shipbuilding Office to Back British Jobs
The two announcements, coming within 24 hours of each other, are being presented by ministers as a single, connected push to put government spending to work for British jobs, rather than two separate stories. Utility companies are being told to follow the same principle, or face legislation forcing them to.
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Industrial Strategy
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£43m Cornwall Lithium Mine Secures Nearly £10m Government Backing
Geothermal Engineering Limited is putting £43 million into a new Cornwall lithium extraction facility, backed by a near £10 million DRIVE35 Offer in Principle. The project is expected to create around 130 jobs in total, and target commercial production of roughly 1,500 tonnes of lithium carbonate a year from 2029.
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Industrial Strategy
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