Local firms can set up shop in its employment centres to try out employees.

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Councillors were also told that the Prudential plan, combined with the nearby Castle Business Park, the Kildean Loop and the Raploch Regeneration Initiative could create one of the major economic and employment centres in Scotland.

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Such a scam emerged at the Employment Service in 1997: some job centres exaggerated the number of unemployed people for whom they had found jobs, because by doing so the staff boosted their pay.

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It includes free use of the council's leisure centres and priority access to housing and employment services.

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Last week, employment minister Mark Hoban said 31 of 123 fitness-for-work assessments centres used by Atos lacked ground-floor access for wheelchairs.

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