Our next meeting will take place on Friday 2 December 2016 at Staffordshire University in Stoke on Trent. Agenda Film screening There will be a special, free screening of The Divide at 7.15pm on Thurs 1 Dec. The screening is in room R001 in the Science Centre on Leek Road: The Divide tells the story of 7 individuals striving for Read 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 Read more…
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, Read more…
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 half thousand years, it is still unfamiliar to most people Read more…
Our next meeting will take place on Friday 2 September 2016 at the Renfield Centre, 260 Bath Street, Glasgow G2 4JP. Agenda Meetings are free to attend and there’s no need to book a place. However, you must be a member of NAWRA to attend the meeting. If you are not already a member, find out more about joining.