Conference topics -

The welfare and employment rights of 'empowerment' groups -

• Incapacitated/disabled claimants and workers
  
• Lone parents, including those on benefits and working part-time
  
• Older claimants/workers
  
• Ethnic minority claimants & workers

+ Employment Support Allowance, Pathways to Work, new 'conditionality' rules, lone parent's work-focused interviews, flexible working, changes to carers' benefits, better off/worse off advice, and employment rights.

Confirmed speakers include -

• Prof. Keith Ewing - King's College London, President, IER: Chair & Overviews
  
• Paul Treloar - Disability Alliance: Empowerment, ESA & Pathways to Work
  
• Emily Holzhausen - Carers UK: Caring for the Carers?
  
• Jim Crosbie - Toyota (UK) Ltd, HRM Director: A (Good) Employer's Perspective
  
• Mark Savage - SU Social Work & Advice Studies & Alan Markey - Citizens Advice & Editor of The Adviser: The Challenges for Advisers & Advice Organisations
  
• Helen Robson & Emor Porteous - SU/Citizens Advice: Benefits/Tax Credits Studies Case Studies
  
• Gareth Morgan - Ferret Information Systems: Better Off, Worse Off? The Uses of IT
  
• Keith Puttick - SU Law School & Tsungai Mukangnga, NSREC: Employment Rights in Welfare-to-Work Transitions
  
• Nicola Smith - TUC: Vulnerable Workers & Unequal Rights
  
• Ian Moss - Citizens Advice Employment Unit: Employment Rights
  
• Catherine Casserley - Temple Cloisters (ex-DRC): The Role & Uses of Discrimination Law
  
• John Duddington - WLS: Carers’ Benefits, 'Flexibility' & Employment Rights

Who should attend?

Welfare & employment advisers, Trade Union officers, HRM managers, academics & others with employment & welfare rights interests.

Fee -

£80 incl VAT; £60 CABx, DIAL, & advice organisations that are charities.

Includes: - Updates & case studies, workshop materials, speaker notes, etc for cascading training, lunch/refreshments, free parking by venue, 6 Hours CPD.

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Full programme + booking form available @ www.staffs.ac.uk/law (Click on 'Work & Welfare Conference' box.)