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Top cities get cash to ease disabled back into work

Greater Manchester and London will receive new powers to help disabled people get into work, the Government has announced.

By Mark Conrad | 01 February 2017

Greater Manchester and London will receive new powers to help disabled people get into work, the Government has announced.

The two cities will receive £100m – £28m for Manchester and £72m for London – to develop, procure and deliver localised versions of the Work and Health Programme from 2017.

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