Go4IT Award: Addaction North Somerset
The first round of Go4IT produced four awards – one of which was to Addaction North Somerset. We were delighted to present Addaction with six desktop computers to replace the old…
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North Somerset Advice Forum – April 2015
Advice North Somerset has set up the Advice Forum, to provide networking and training opportunities to voluntary and community sector organisations that offer advice, guidance and information services to people…
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Looking for Advice? You’ve come to the right place!
OK, you’ve got to our homepage – how do you find out what you need from the Advice Directory? 1. Click on Get Advice and choose the category of advice that…
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Go4IT Award: North Somerset Training
The first round of Go4IT produced four awards – one of which was to North Somerset Training. We were delighted to present North Somerset Training with a number of tablet computers…
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Researching Council Tax Support
We have launched a research project investigating the local Council Tax Support scheme. Before April 2013 Council Tax Benefit was a national benefit, meaning the rules were the same for…
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£300k Advice Gap: The Implications and Possible Solutions
There have been unprecedented changes on a nationwide scale in recent years. Both the implementation of legal aid cuts and welfare reform (including Universal Credit) have created the ‘perfect storm’…
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Making sense of Housing Benefit letters
Improving the process for claimants Do you … Support people to claim Housing Benefit? Spend lots of time looking at Housing Benefit award letters? Find the letters confusing? The Council…
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The Big Advice Survey has launched – Get involved and tell YOUR story!
Why do the survey? There have been unprecedented changes to the Social Welfare Law (SWL) advice world, with legal aid cuts, welfare reform and approximately 60% more cuts on their way.…
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Go4IT Scheme: First Round
Lottery scheme for public access IT to help with online benefit claims Applications are now open for organisations to receive IT hardware to support for members of the public with…
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Advice North Somerset First Conference – video
We are delighted to publish the video from our Annual Conference which gives a good introduction to Advice North Somerset and our purpose. You can view it here.
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