article_snippet.sent: In December last year, the director of finance at Doncaster Council admitted to still having 300 relief workers on 300 relief workers books.
article_snippet.sent: This represents only 2.3 per cent of people in employment – or one in every 43 workers.
article_snippet.sent: This hardly constitutes an epidemic.
article_snippet.sent: There has been a 20 per cent increase in the last year alone.
article_snippet.sent: The figure for private firms – once again the target for an attack by Ed Miliband – was only 17 per cent.