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SoS and the Beeb. Strange bedfellows Ho hum just a little light reading of a brief summary of The Digital Switchover (Disclosure of Information) Act 2007. Maybe I'm being a bit paranoid | suelees | 07-Feb-08 04:00 PM | 0 | 644 |
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Research into health-based welfare rights advice I have been commissioned by Age Concern England to undertake research into welfare rights advice delivered in healthcare settings or in close partners | Neil Bateman | 07-Feb-08 10:19 AM by Neil Bateman | 5 | 1923 |
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Tax Help for Older People Don't know whether this is in the right forum as there isn't really one for miscellaneous.
On ly came across this yesterday at a meeting at Age Conc | suelees | 07-Feb-08 10:12 AM | 0 | 620 |
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Survey on availability of advice - LAG & AJA LAG and the Access to Justice Alliance are asking clients - or advisers on their behalf - to complete a survey if they have had any difficulties getti | wai fong | 04-Feb-08 02:31 PM | 0 | 588 |
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Re: News - Pensions Service in Crisis Merger with Disability and Carers Righsnet new article - Peter Hain spake thusly -
"This is a big step forward for our Department and its customers. The new Agency will help us to | jj | 01-Feb-08 03:34 PM by Peter Turville | 12 | 1430 |
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ASA survey on fixed fees - the first three months Advice Services Alliance urgently needs evidence about how the LSC NfP transitional provisions are working to enable it to make representations on beh | shawn | 18-Jan-08 09:03 AM | 0 | 689 |
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Review of our Welfare Rights Service I'm the Welfare Rights Manager for A Housing Association. The management announced at their Regional Conferences that they were about to review the se | william | 16-Jan-08 03:14 PM by Carrie1 | 3 | 1174 |
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National Indicators Some of the new national indicators for local authorities (and local authority partnerships)relate to benefits take-up but this isn't necessarily goo | keith | 18-Dec-07 11:38 AM by Al Franco | 3 | 1081 |
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Extending legal aid to tribunals .. article on extending legal aid to tribunals by Paul Draycott, a barrister at Garden Court North, and Steve Hynes, director of the Law Centres Feder | shawn | 17-Dec-07 11:23 AM | 0 | 796 |
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Quality Marks Are there any local authority Welfare Rights Teams that have a 'quality mark' other than the LSC one? Would be interested to know which others are in | ks | 13-Dec-07 04:20 PM | 0 | 892 |
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Summary of Law Society Vs LSC Unfied Contract judgement The summary of the judgement is available here. | wai fong | 03-Dec-07 12:21 PM | 0 | 800 |
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Help influence how the LSC implements change The LSC wants to create better channels for two-way communication with providers with whom they contract.
Submit your interest for membership of a P | wai fong | 30-Nov-07 01:37 PM by jj | 1 | 834 |
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Benefit Information Service? Can anyone inform us if they've heard of the above. A letter from its director has appeared in our local paper highlighting the availability of thr SD | Semitone | 27-Nov-07 03:32 PM by jef imrie | 12 | 3274 |
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Right Payment Programme The DWP say that they are going to target those whose conditions "research has shown have the greatest potential for change". Does anybody have a cop | ali l | 27-Nov-07 08:36 AM by ali l | 1 | 1490 |
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NAWRA, Birmingham, Friday 7th December 2007 Hi
The agenda for the next NAWRA meeting, at the Birmingham & Midland Institute in Birmingham, is now available. To download the agenda, along wit | Alan Markey | 20-Nov-07 10:49 AM | 0 | 862 |
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WRO's in Childrens Services/organisations We are based in Adult Services and are hope to develop more work in Childrens Services etc(there's a need for it!!!). Are there any WR services who wo | clive | 19-Nov-07 08:43 AM by Derbyshire | 2 | 1025 |
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AIMS ... new and improved ... A new version of Lasa'a AIMS client contact database will be available in January 2008.
Version 3.5 of AIMS will contain some brand new features as | shawn | 07-Nov-07 02:52 PM | 0 | 1343 |
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Debt training for LA WRU. Greetings from the Principality!
We are considering broadening our remit (oo-missus!) and providing some basic level of debt advice, in addition to | splott-paul | 05-Nov-07 02:39 PM by jackie1 | 7 | 2278 |
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Re: target practice and the self-perpetuating oligarchy. i might be barking up the wrong tree, i might even just be barking, but how do others view these targets for HB reductions on c/o/c as a measurement o | jj | 25-Oct-07 04:55 PM | 0 | 928 |
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Hain shocked by impact on health of workless households So it's the fault of the workless, and nothing to do with level of payment of subsistence / earnings replacement benefits, then ? I wonder what Joseph | robswad | 19-Oct-07 05:18 PM by robswad | 9 | 1304 |
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Contact query for contacting JCP, BDC, Uncle Tom Cobbley and All Might be in the wrong forum but I'm sure Ken'll move it if it is.
We're about 30 miles from Preston and a five minute walk from one of our local JC | suelees | 17-Oct-07 08:48 AM by mike shermer | 7 | 1214 |
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Benefit tourism: fact or fiction? A colleague and I are discussing the possible reasons why some people arrive in the UK with no means to support themselves (excluding refugees/asylum | Tony Bowman | 16-Oct-07 07:41 PM by ariadne2 | 9 | 1660 |
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Homeless decisions What lenghth of time is reasonable for an applicant to wait before a section 184 decision is made.
I understand that different circumstances demand d | leahfaith23 | 15-Oct-07 09:25 AM by nevip | 3 | 1077 |
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Re: Efficiency savings Edited to shorten link
[a href="http://www.rig htsnet.org.uk/cgi-bi n/sub_client/search. cgi?template2=news/u ser_details2.htm&out put_number=1 | jj | 12-Oct-07 02:13 PM | 0 | 730 |
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NAWRA minutes now available! Edited to correct link
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T he minutes from the last NAWRA meeting in Edinburgh, on 14th September, are now available. Also available a | Alan Markey | 11-Oct-07 09:50 AM by Gareth Morgan | 1 | 875 |
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Acceptable caseloads for Welfare Rights workers under Scottish standards Hello,
I’m a welfare rights worker with the Action Group in Edinburgh. We are going through the Scottish National Standards for Information and Advic | jon_shaw | 09-Oct-07 01:40 PM by Tony Bowman | 7 | 2421 |
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Access to benefits information from DWP system Our housing benefit staff (after usual checks and training) have access to benefit information held by the DWP - the range of benefits currently in pa | Shabir | 04-Oct-07 01:50 PM | 0 | 853 |
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LSC Unified Contract Holders - New Provider Training Pack This Provider Training Pack brings together guidance to prepare providers for the forthcoming changes. It also includes information about what is stay | wai fong | 20-Sep-07 09:37 AM | 0 | 960 |
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Training again - this time: general info' on overseas & benefits. Hi again - it's me again. Yes, I'm on the cadge again.
We've got our Debt Course sorted, now I'm looking at a "general" course/ training/ resource on | splott-paul | 14-Sep-07 03:35 PM by splott-paul | 4 | 921 |
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NAWRA, Edinburgh, September 2007 Hi
I am pleased to confirm that the next NAWRA meeting will be held in Edinburgh on Friday 14th September 2007.
The venue will be the CoSLA conf | Alan Markey | 05-Sep-07 06:53 AM by Alan Markey | 2 | 1147 |