Blackpool is one of four areas set to benefit from a new Government pilot designed to help people with mental health conditions return to work. Nearly half (46 per cent) of people claiming Employment and Support Allowance (ESA) have mental health conditions while mental ill-health is estimated to cost taxpayers and businesses an £105bn a …
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Dec 12
Beware of the 12 online frauds of Christmas
WITH around 50% of us expected to buy our Christmas presents online, Julie Waddington from Lancashire County Council’s Trading Standards Service is reminding shoppers that fraudsters have many ways of scamming us for money. “In the past 12 months, Lancashire Trading Standards has received over 1,000 complaints about online traders, from scams to faulty goods,” …
Dec 12
£150K Funding boost for Lancashire food banks
LANCASHIRE County Council has handed out £150,000 to help people who cannot afford to eat. The money has been given to 22 groups across the county as Food Poverty Grants, to help them ensure they have everything they need to continue supplying food to people who need it most. Some of the groups getting funding …
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