THE Government has terminated a contract with Sheffield-based welfare-to-work firm A4e after deciding that it would be "too great a risk" to let it continue.

Employment minister Chris Grayling said the Mandatory Work Activity contract to help up to 1,000 jobless people in south-east England find work would end.

The firm is the subject of a police investigation into allegations of fraud relating to government schemes. An eighth person was arrested on Monday.

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