Despite the national increase in unemployment there was a small drop in JSA claims in Wandsworth last month, down 39 from November to 6,016 (a drop of 0.64%) and down 578 from the previous year (a drop of 8.77%).
Not a huge fall, but better than the drop of one in November and in the national context a drop is good news.
The figures are from NOMIS and are also available on my data page.
[…] This post was mentioned on Twitter by James Cousins, Robert Dale. Robert Dale said: here's a good bit of social journalism by a councillor http://ow.ly/3H1t9 #localgov […]