Neil Bateman's 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
- Advice and advocacy about community care law.
- 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 - click here for details.
- 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.
- 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.
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