Committee
Annual report 2016
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.
Meetings
Durham 3 March 2017
Our next meeting will take place from 10am-4pm (registration from 9.30am) on Friday 3 March at Durham Town Hall. Find out more
Members
Brian McGarr
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 Read more…
Members
Attendance Allowance consultation
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. Read more…
Members
Basic Income – the modern form of Social Security
Tying in with a theme of our meeting in Glasgow tomorrow, we are reproducing part of a blog by Dr Simon Duffy of the Centre for Welfare Reform. (Reproduced with kind permission of the author.) “Although the idea of Basic Income has been around for at least two and a Read more…