The number of council/housing association households that are workless has fallen for the second year in a row, according to figures from the Office for National Statistics (ONS).
The ONS figures - which look at households where no adult aged 16 to 64 is in work – show that there were 80,000 fewer council/housing association households that were workless in 2012 with the figure now at 1.5 million.
Across all tenures the number of workless households fell by 153,000 to 3.7 million in 2012,...
