Members
Notes from meeting in Wrexham
NAWRA met in Wrexham on 9 June 2017. Minutes of the meeting along with presentations by the speakers and workshop facilitators can be found in the members area.
Members
Wrexham conference, 9 June 2017
Here are the details of our next meeting : Date: Friday 9 June 2017 Time: 10am – 4pm (registration from 9.30am) Location: Catrin Finch Centre, Glyndwr University, Mold Road, Wrexham LL11 2AW The meeting is kindly hosted by Welfare Rights Advice Cymru. Agenda and more information
Basic Income
Fish, chips and mushy politics!?
UBIE event 24th–26th March 2017, London Here, our North Wales committee representative, Eri Mountbatten, provides a summary of the Unconditional Basic Income Europe (UBIE) weekend held in London on 24th – 26th March 2017. Eri asks, is Universal Basic Income (UBI) a utopian exercise in socialist Sympatico, or can it bring real and meaningful alternatives to the current debates on Read more…
Members
Information Commissioners Office consultation on consent
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.
Campaigns
IB and ESA conversion – letter to Damian Green, MP
We have written to Damian Green MP, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, to raise concerns about what we see as the DWPs failure to follow correct legal procedures on conversion of incapacity benefit claimants to employment and support allowance. The full text of our letter is reproduced below. “Our members have identified many former Incapacity Benefit/Severe Disablement Allowance Read more…