The Church of Scotland has reacted with dismay to “unacceptable” plans to cut up to half of the Job Centres in Glasgow.

The Department of Work and Pensions is proposing to shut eight centres in some of the city’s most deprived areas as part of a review that aims to reduce the UK wide number by 20%.

Pauline Edmiston, vice convener of the Church and Society Council, said: ‘The Church would want to strongly resist these proposals.

“For many people getting to their local Job Centre is already very challenging. “To make that even more difficult would be fundamentally wrong and unjust.”

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