The 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, one from Scotland, one from Northern Ireland and one nominated by CPAG. This gives a total of 14 representatives. The committee meet at Read more…
In Nov 2017, NAWRA wrote to David Gauke MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions to highlight three major problems within universal credit. These are not policy issues but operational issues where the legislative processes within universal credit are not being correctly followed and are causing extreme hardship. claimants Read more…
NAWRA met in Coventry on 1 Dec 2017. The minutes of the meeting along with slides and notes from the speakers and workshop facilitators are now available in the members area.
Social Insecurity? Welfare rights and welfare reform by Sarah Batty is a summary of a qualitative study into the impact on social tenants of welfare reforms carried out as part of an MA in Social Policy at the University of York (October 2017)
Thanks to everyone who came along to our meeting in Edinburgh on 8 September 2017. Notes from the meeting are available in the members area. SNP MSP for Edinburgh Northern and Leith, Ben Macpherson, who attended the workshops, said: “With the new Social Security Bill at Stage 1 in the Read more…