The UK’s Universal Credit programme, which aims to roll six forms of state welfare including unemployment and housing benefits into one, was launched in 2010 with the aim of supporting people to work.

Archaeologists have uncovered incredible remains of a Victorian workhouse with colourful walls and a fireplace that offer insights into the early 19th-century workhouses established to help the poor.

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The last part of an historic Birmingham workhouse has been earmarked for demolition to pave the way for the redevelopment of the Dudley Road hospital site. The grand entrance to the building, known ...

The harsh regime of workhouses is something we associate with Victorian times. But the shocking truth about the buildings is that they continued to house families well into the 20th Century. BBC News ...