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Current and recent customers
include
Age Concern England: Research into
benefits and health
Bestwood Advice Centre Nottingham:
Review of quality processes and audit of casework
Birmingham Law Society: Welfare
benefits training for solicitors
Blackpool Borough Council: Welfare
rights training for staff and local advice agencies and strategic welfare rights advice
Bryn Melyn Group Foundation:
Strategic advice on benefits for care leavers & conference report. Input to HM
Treasury review of financial support for young people
Bury Metropolitan Borough Council:
Strategic advice about benefits and fostering/guardianship
Carers UK: Welfare rights training
Carmarthenshire County Council:
Strategic welfare rights advice to staff
Central Law Training: Welfare
benefits training for solicitors
Centre for Economic and Social Inclusion:
Contributions to Young Person's Handbook, Welfare to Work Handbook, Disability and Carer's
Handbook and the Newcomer's Handbook. Also, welfare rights training
Chartered Institute of Housing:
Welfare rights training for housing staff
Child Poverty Action Group:
Welfare rights training and workshop at annual conference
Childrens Rights Officers and Advocates:
Workshops at annual conference
Chris Stewart and Associates Ltd:
Welfare rights training for local authority revenues and benefits staff in Kent, Norfolk,
Gloucestershire, Scotland & Lancashire
Circle Anglia Housing Group/Epic Trust:
Welfare rights training and second tier advice for staff
Citizens Advice Specialist Support Unit:
Second tier advice to Citizens Advice Bureaux advisers
Citizens Information Board (Ireland):
Speaker at advocacy conference April 2007
Connexions Northamptonshire:
Welfare rights training for staff
Community Care Live: Welfare
rights seminar and advice clinic
Disability Rights Commission:
Drafting amendments to legislation
Dumfries and Galloway Council:
Welfare rights training for staff
East Sussex County Council Social Services:
Strategic welfare rights advice on adult placements
Entitledto Ltd: Helping develop
welfare rights advice software
Family Business (Parentline Plus
& One Parent Families): Welfare rights training
Flagship Housing Group: Welfare
rights training for staff and strategic welfare rights consultancy
Haringey Association for Independent Living:
Strategic welfare rights advice and complex casework
Haringey London Borough: Strategic
advice about benefit take-up
Home Farm Trust: Advice and
advocacy for service users and strategic welfare rights advice
Institute of Legal Executives:
Independent member of Advocacy Rights Committee (2007-2010)
Julian Housing Trust:
Developmental work on advocacy skills
Lancashire County Council:
Strategic developmental work with Welfare Rights Service
Lisson Grove Benefits Program:
Helping develop welfare rights advice software
Local Government Association:
Social security adviser (honorary position)
Macfarlane Trust: Complex welfare
rights advice and avocacy for registrants
Michael Bell Associates: Associate
Consultant on several major projects, including:
Writing national competences for advice workers in
Scotland for the Scottish Executive
Reviews of advice services in Bristol, Nottingham,
Reading, Oldham, Tower Hamlets and Haringey
Research into Citizens Advice Bureaux advice
partnerships
Research about access to housing advice by black
and minority ethnic groups
Audits of money advice services
Minds Eye: Welfare rights training
for staff working in supported housing
National Association of Adult Placement
Services: Strategic welfare rights consultancy, welfare rights training and
workshops at annual conferences
National Association of Welfare Rights
Advisers: Representative on DWP Policy and Strategy Forum
National Care Leavers Conference 2004:
Workshops about benefits policy and young people
Northamptonshire Welfare Rights Advice
Service: Training for advice workers
Oxford City Council: A strategy
for social welfare law advice services
Papworth Trust: Strategic welfare
rights advice about shared ownership and advice to service users
PLUS Services: Welfare rights
training about benefits for people with a learning disability
Portland Supported Housing:
Consultancy on Housing Benefit problems
Progressive Legal Training: Welfare
rights training for lawyers
Refugee Council Ipswich: Welfare
rights advice during Refugee Week
Royal Agricultural Benevolent Institution:
Welfare rights training for welfare staff
Ryes School Suffolk: Member of
Advisory Panel and welfare rights training for staff
Sandwell Council: Evaluation of
benefit take-up work with older people and with teenage parents
Solicitors: Expert witness
services in benefit fraud and personal injury cases for numerous solicitors
Space East: Associate
Staffordshire County Council:
Review of welfare rights advice services
Suffolk County Council: Welfare
rights training for local community organisations and strategic welfare rights advice
Trafford Metropolitan Borough Council:
Review of welfare rights advice services
University of Cambridge Board of Continuing
Education: Welfare rights training for lawyers
Valuing People Project (Department
of Health): Strategic welfare rights advice
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