The Equality and Diversity Forum have launched an online handbook to help advisers, and advice services more widely, to identify and challenge potential discrimination within the benefits system. The handbook includes a range of tools and practical help to make it easier for advisers to recognise discrimination issues and to help services to build equality rights into advice delivery. It Read more
We have a produced a new benefit changes chart detailing all the changes since 2011 along with recent and forthcoming changes and analysis of the impact. Read more
NAWRA member Sarah Batty has contributed to the Social Policy Association’s 50th anniversary blog series with a piece about the workshops facilitated by Dr Michael Orton of Warwick University at NAWRA meetings in 2016 and 2017 on the topic of ‘Putting the security back into social security’. The aim was to use consensus-building to identify key short to medium-term actions Read more
First edition of NAWRA news now out – find out how DWP will be contacting claimants who have been underpaid ESA and advice on how to challenge decisions where the DWP have restricted backdating. NAWRA has been campaigning on this issue for some time and the National Audit Office has recently confirmed that the DWP first knew about the error Read more
The Equality and Human RIghts Commission have published their final cumulative report on the impact of government Welfare Reforms. The report suggests that children will be hit hardest with an extra 1.5 million being pushed into poverty. In addition, the report finds that the child poverty rate for those in lone parent households will increase from 37% to over 62% Read more