Thanks to everyone who came along to NAWRA’s conference in Durham last week, and to Durham County Council welfare rights team for hosting us. Slides from the conference sessions are now available in the members area of our website. NAWRA meets twice a year in-person and twice a year on Read more
Our Chair, Alan Markey (Coventry Independent Advice Service) has written NAWRA’s annual report 2021-22. Read it to find out more about our successful year of online conferences, consultation responses and plans for the future.
NAWRA members will meet on Zoom on 3 March 2022 (1.00pm-4.30pm) and 4 March 2022 (9.30am-1.00pm) We will be hearing from a wide variety of welfare rights practitioners and academics. Dr Michael Orton (Warwick University) will lead a participatory session on the work of the Commission for Social Security and Read more
On 26 January 2022 the DWP announced that Citizens Advice in partnership with Citizens Advice Scotland will deliver the universal credit Help to Claim service from April 2022. While under the current contract face to face support is available, the new contract is limited to just telephony and digital channels. Read more
Would you like to join the NAWRA committee? The NAWRA committee directs the policy and general management of the affairs of NAWRA. It consists of representatives from each of the English regions plus two from Wales, two from Scotland, one from Northern Ireland and one nominated by CPAG. The committee Read more