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Welfare reform: Lessons learned

Posted on June 5, 2015 by Diana Nicoll in Advice sector news, Social policy. Tagged funding cuts, universal credit, social policy, employment, DWP, job centres, benefits, welfare, welfare reforms

The National Audit Office has requested that the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) will need to use the hard lessons that it has learned from the recent implementation of welfare…
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£300k Advice Gap: The Implications and Possible Solutions

Posted on February 6, 2015 by Diana Nicoll in Advice North Somerset, Advice sector news. Tagged Advice North Somerset, welfare, advice, welfare reforms, legal aid, funding cuts

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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