NAWRA surveyed its members and used the results to inform our submission to the consultation by the Information Commissioners Office on consent. Thanks to Eri Mountbatten (Aberystwyth University Students’ Union and NAWRA rep for Wales) for collating all the responses and drafting the submission.
Our annual report for 2016 can now be downloaded and will be presented at our conference in Durham on 3rd March 2017. If you have any feedback, comments or suggestions for future activity, please let us know.
Our next meeting will take place from 10am-4pm (registration from 9.30am) on Friday 3 March at Durham Town Hall. Find out more
Sad news from Durham Welfare Rights: Brian McGarr one of our former colleagues has passed away. A lot of people who are new to Welfare Rights won’t know of Brian. It’s probably only the ‘oldies’ who will remember Brian because he wasn’t active in Welfare Rights for many years due to ill health, but he was one of the pioneers of early Welfare Rights. He started as a community activist in Glasgow, then as a WRO with Strathclyde Regional Council, …
NAWRA has submitted a response to the ‘Self-sufficient local government: 100% business rates retention’ consultation voicing our concern at the proposal that Attendance Allowance would no longer be a cash benefit in England and Wales if responsibility for it transfers from the DWP to each local authority’s social care budget. Our submission is available here. Thanks to our North-East representative, Julie Henry (Durham County Council), for drafting it.
