I have provided services to a large number of organisations and their clients. Here are those whom I either currently provide services to or who I have provided services to in the past.
Age Concern England
Research into benefits and healthBestwood Advice Centre Nottingham
Review of quality processes and audit of caseworkBirmingham Law Society
Welfare benefits training for solicitorsBlackpool Borough Council
Welfare rights training for staff and local advice agencies and strategic welfare rights adviceBryn Melyn Group Foundation
Strategic advice on benefits for care leavers & conference report. Input to HM Treasury review of financial support for young peopleBury Metropolitan Borough Council
Strategic advice about benefits and fostering/guardianshipCambridge Mencap
Advice and advocacy about benefits for people in shared ownership housingCarers UK
Welfare rights trainingCarmarthenshire County Council
Strategic welfare rights advice on adult placementsCentral Law Training
Welfare benefits training for solicitorsCentre for Economic and Social Inclusion
Co-author of Young Persons Handbook, Welfare to Work Handbook, Disability and Carers Handbook and the Newcomer's Handbook. Also, welfare rights trainingChartered Institute of Housing
Welfare rights training for housing staffChild Poverty Action Group
Welfare rights training and workshop at annual conferenceChildrens Rights Officers and Advocates
Workshops at annual conferenceChris Stewart and Associates Ltd
Welfare rights training for local authority revenues and benefits staff in Kent, Norfolk, Gloucestershire, Moray & LancashireCircle Anglia Housing Group/Epic Trust (Haringey and Islington)
Welfare rights training and ongoing contract to provide second tier advice for staffCitizens Advice Specialist Support Unit
Second tier advice to Citizens Advice Bureaux advisersCitizens Information Board (Ireland)
Speaker at advocacy conference April 2007Connexions Northamptonshire
Welfare rights training for staffCommunity Care Live
Welfare rights seminar and advice clinic
Disability Rights Commission
Drafting amendments to social security legislation for debate in ParliamentDumfries and Galloway Council
Welfare rights training for staffEast Sussex County Council Social Services
Strategic welfare rights advice on adult placementsEnfield London Borough
Strategic welfare rights advice on adult placementsFamily Business (Parentline Plus & One Parent Families)
Welfare rights trainingFlagship Housing Group
Welfare rights training for staff and strategic welfare rights consultancyHaringey Association for Independent Living
Strategic welfare rights advice and complex caseworkHaringey London Borough
Strategic advice about benefit take-upHome Farm Trust
Advice and advocacy for service users and strategic welfare rights adviceInstitute of Legal Executives
Independent member of Advocacy Rights Committee (2007-2010)Julian Housing Trust (Norwich)
Developmental work on advocacy skillsKings College Hospital (London)
Welfare rights training for social workersKnowsley Borough Council
Strategic welfare rights advice on adult placementsLancashire County Council
Strategic developmental work with Welfare Rights ServiceLisson Grove Benefits Program
Helping develop welfare rights advice softwareLocal Government Association
Social security adviser (honorary position)Macfarlane Trust
Complex welfare rights advice and advocacy for Trust registrantsMichael Bell Associates
Associate Consultant on several major projects, including:- Developing 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 welfare rights 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, advice on difficult benefit issuesNational Association of Welfare Rights Advisers
Representative on DWP Policy and Strategy ForumNational Care Leavers Conference
Workshops about benefits policy and young peopleNorthamptonshire Welfare Rights Advice Service
Training for advice workersOxford City Council
A strategy for social welfare law advice servicesPapworth Trust
Strategic welfare rights advice about shared ownership and advice to service usersPLUS Services
Welfare rights training about benefits for people with a learning disabilityPortland Supported Housing (Derby)
Consultancy on Housing Benefit problemsProgressive Legal Training
Welfare rights training for lawyersRefugee Council Ipswich
Welfare rights advice during Refugee WeekRoyal Agricultural Benevolent Institution
Welfare rights training for welfare staffRyes School Suffolk
Member of Advisory Panel and welfare rights training for staffSandwell Council
Evaluations of benefit take-up work with older people and teenage parents. Review of benefits advice in GP practices. Research about welfare rights work for children and family social care services.Solicitors
Expert witness services in benefit fraud and personal injury cases for numerous solicitors in England and Wales and also in the USA. Click hereSpace East
TrainingStaffordshire County Council
Review of welfare rights advice servicesSuffolk County Council
Welfare rights training for local community organisations and strategic welfare rights adviceTrafford Metropolitan Borough Council
Review of welfare rights advice servicesUniversity of Cambridge Board of Continuing Education
Welfare rights training for lawyersValuing People Project (Department of Health)
Strategic welfare rights advice