The Home Office has launched a new initiative to target prolific offenders and disrupt the sale of stolen goods in areas where burglary and robbery are rising.

The Vigilance Programme will involve pre-emptive support, training and additional resources to 35 areas facing challenges of rising crime. Local plans include: targeted police operations that follow and film prolific burglars, monitoring vehicles coming and going in high-crime neighbourhoods as well as providing additional officers to monitor known prolific offenders and disrupt stolen goods markets.

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With more job cuts in prospect across the public and private sectors, attention is being focused on ‘who to let go’. This new focus is having its effect on managers and staff alike. Monitoring workplace activity has revealed some interesting changes in behaviour, but the statistics come with a health warning.

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By Tania Burchardt

Time and money are two key constraints on what people can achieve. The income constraint is widely recognised by policy-makers, but solutions risk freeing lone parents from income poverty only at the price of deepening their existing time poverty. The author highlights the importance of considering parental time, alongside household income, in pursuing a child poverty strategy.

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