Neil Bateman’s Consultancy Services
My consultancy services include…
- Welfare rights casework and advocacy, particularly in complex cases and at all levels of the social security appeals system – including benefit checks for service users
- Second tier welfare rights advice and support for front line staff – empowering them to tackle their service users' benefit problems. You can purchase a regular service from me.
- Consultancy and expert witness services on social security matters for solicitors – for details, see the Services for Solicitors page.
- Helping landlords tackle housing benefit problems (e.g delays, overpayments), benefit advice on eligible rent levels and maximising tenants' benefit incomes.
- Auditing and reviewing advice services, and establishing quality and performance systems and strategies for improvement. I have my own audit tools and processes, specially designed for welfare rights work which evaluation the crucial matters for giving good quality advice and effective results.
- Advice and advocacy about community care law.
- Research into welfare rights practice and policy.
- Maximising incomes by establishing and managing benefit take-up initiatives.
- Writing and editing articles, leaflets, books and website content – making benefit rights accessible.
- Advice and help for voluntary organisations and local authorities to make services benefit efficient – for example, changing accommodation from registered to unregistered care status and setting up shared ownership schemes.
- Influencing social security policy and administration; lobbying for change.
