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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Politics
Patrick Butler Social policy editor

‘Not just about cuts’: Liz Kendall says benefits changes will help people find jobs

Liz Kendall making bread
‘I’m here to change the system.’ Liz Kendall making bread in the Workbridge community centre in Northampton. Photograph: Graeme Robertson/The Guardian

The welfare secretary, Liz Kendall, wearing an apron, is gingerly rolling a ball of sourdough. When it comes to getting people off incapacity benefits and back into work, breadmaking, it seems, has a part to play.

Kendall is at Workbridge, a community centre in Northampton. There’s a cafe, a garden centre, and workshops and kitchens offering people with mental illness, autism, learning disabilities and brain injuries the chance to develop their life and job skills.

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