NAWRA members will meet on Zoom on Thursday 25 September 2025 (1.00pm-4.00pm) and Friday 26 September 2025 (9.30am-12.30pm). Many thanks to Welfare Rights Advisers Cymru (WRAC) for hosting us. We will be hearing from a wide variety of speakers on lots of interesting and helpful topics and there will be plenty opportunity to ask questions. The meeting will also act Read more
NAWRA has submitted its response to the Pathways to Work Green Paper consultation. We highlight that the employment support reforms proposed in the paper are premature until the government has set out what its new support offer will look like, properly tested and resourced it, and resolved the problems of backlogs and delays within Access to Work. Rejecting completely the Read more
Thanks to everyone who came along to NAWRA’s events in Stockport in June 2025. Members can read the presentations here: NAWRA 50th anniversary advice summit – 5 June 2025 NAWRA’s quarterly conference – 6 June 2025
NAWRA is hosting two events at Stockport Town Hall this summer. Thursday 5 June 2025: NAWRA advice summit This year is NAWRA’s 50th anniversary and we want to commemorate this important milestone with a series of events highlighting the crucial role that social welfare advice plays in the community. A key part of our celebration is a NAWRA-sponsored advice summit. Read more
NAWRA has written to the Secretary of State to express our extreme concern that many of the key proposals within the Green Paper – particularly those with financial implications – are not open for consultation. Highlighting that the purpose of a Green Paper is to allow feedback from relevant organisations, and also pointing to DWP’s statement in the Paper Read more