In a reception sponsored by Labour MP for Battersea Marsha de Cordova last Tuesday (13 January 2026), held to celebrate its 50th birthday, NAWRA formally launched its campaign calling for advice to be a statutory duty available equally to all who need it and free at the point of delivery. Read more
NAWRA is calling upon UK governments to introduce a statutory duty to provide social welfare advice, available equally to all who need it and free at the point of delivery.
Thanks to everyone who came along to NAWRA’s conference in York last week, the speakers and workshop facilitators, and to Welfare Benefits Unit for hosting us. Slides from the conference sessions are now available in the members area of our website.
Our next NAWRA conference will take place in-person on Friday 5 December 2025 at The Priory Street Centre, 15 Priory St, York YO1 6ET. (more…)
DWP statistics out last week revealed that 3% of ESA claimants were failing to migrate safely to universal credit. Alarmingly, this figure rises to 6% for those in receipt of ESA only. With NAWRA members highlighting cases where DWP were refusing to extend the deadline and terminating legacy benefits, despite Read more