Welfare secretary visits Northampton centre helping out-of-work people develop skills, saying it is part of new approach

The welfare secretary, Liz Kendall, wearing an apron, is gingerly rolling a ball of sourdough. When it comes to getting people off incapacity benefits and back into work, breadmaking, it seems, has a part to play.

Kendall is at Workbridge , a community centre in Northampton. There’s a cafe, a garden centre, and workshops and kitchens offering people with mental illness, autism, learning disabilities and brain injuries the chance to develop their life and job skills.