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Neil Bateman
                              

Welfare rights consultant, www.neilbateman.co.uk
Member since
24th Jan 2004

Joint LA/DWP Teams and cuts in welfare rights services
Thu 14-Apr-05 12:45 PM

Please see the attached news story from Community Care magazine about Somerset County Council's decision to cut the Welfare Rights Unit.

www.rightsnet.org.uk/pdfs/Comm_Care_Somerset_April_2005.pdf

  

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jj
                              

welfare rights adviser, saltley & nechells law centre birmingham
Member since
21st Jan 2004

RE: Joint LA/DWP Teams and cuts in welfare rights services
Thu 14-Apr-05 05:28 PM

you predicted just this happening... it seems local authorities, like local medical committees, don't get 'independence'in relation to access to justice... or do they...?

jj

  

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