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. Please arrive from 9.30am for a 10am start. The conference will finish at 4pm. All NAWRA members are welcome. The conference is free to attend and open to members only. Many thanks to the Welfare Benefits Read more
NAWRA has responded to the Work and Pensions committee inquiry on Employment Support for Disabled People by sending in a series of Access to Work case studies that highlight the difficulties disabled people have both getting into and retaining work because of problems within the Access to Work process. This includes delays, failure to provide appropriate support, unnecessary bureaucracy, and a Read more
Thanks to everyone who came along to NAWRA’s autumn conference on Zoom on 25 and 26 Sep 2026 Members see the slides and videos from the event in the members area.
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